Bull crap.
We didn’t go to war to find “stockpiles” we went to war to eliminate a mass murderer who was in violation of the Gulf War cease fire of 1991 ... not to mention every single UN resolution following it up to the day of the invasion of 2003; because Iraq provided terrorists with training in forgery among other things; because Iraq was harboring the bomb maker whose team attacked the World Trade center in 1993, because Iraq was harboring the terrorist cells of 1999 Millennium plotter Zarqawi [whose followers, along with Iraqi General al Dhouri’s men, eventually became the core of ISIS under his leadership]; because Iraq was funding terrorists in the Philippines who were decapitating tourists including Americans; because an Iraqi diplomat was involved in a bombing that killed a US soldier in the Philippines; because Iraq was developing a long range missile in violation of the terms imposed on it; because Iraq failed to turn over all prototypes and blueprints [which was proven when we found them after the invasion]; and because sanctions had demonstrably failed to force Saddam into compliance with providing a full and verifiable inventory of what equipment, prototypes, plans, precursors, growth media, product and delivery systems it claimed to have possessed nor did it provide a verifiable account of what it destroyed; and because Iraq was barring the questioning of its scientists, some of whom turned up later in Libya’s nuclear program.
Thank you both. There were very good reasons we went into Iraq. I was there in 2003 and 2004, had co-workers at Salmon Pak, and saw some of the dirty bombs they had been preparing.
The whole “no WMD” baloney is just that, BALONEY.
I was in favor of eliminating Saddam Hussein because that was one more enemy of Israel they did not need. Can you imagine Israel getting hit by both Iraq and Iran?