What had Saddam Hussein done to make himself worth taking out?
1) Invaded two countries without warning (Kuwait and Iran) and lobbed missiles at Israel during Desert Storm.
2) Waged ethnic war and visited genocide on at least two indigenous groups in his own country.
3) Played cat-and-mouse to foil UN inspections of his suspected facilities.
4) Engaged in massive corruption via the oil-for-food program.
5) Attacked out military aircraft in the no-fly zone, in violation of the treaty he signed after Desert Storm.
6) Provided safe haven and training facilities for known international Islamic terrorists.
7) Set up a tyrannical rule-by-murder regime in which no opposition of any kind was allowed to exist.
8) Apparently dumped vast amounts of banned toxic chemicals in the Euphrates River just before our invasion, and moved a caravan of who knows what to Syria, thanks to the 6-month warning he had of impending invasion.
9) Assembled the world's 4th largest army and tried to bully and bluster himself into leadership of the pan-Islamic movement for world domination, even threatening SA at times.
Just a nice authoritarian type of guy trying to make the world a better place, right?
Eh, the left would attack anything that Bush did.