That is nitpicking. There was a ceasefire condition at the time and we were enforcing a no-fly zone over Iraq. As for “spilled milk now;” the subject of the thread and my reply is about the situation that existed when GW Bush was president.
IMHO after 9-11 Bush should have normalized relations with Iraq's secular butcher Saddam in exchange for help neutralizing Islamist terror in the region.
If any country should have been invaded it was Saudi Arabia. And yeah, take the oil. If they won't play nice the sheiks don't get to be rich anymore.