Iraq kept “locking on” to our planes in their “No Fly Zone,” ever since ending the prior war. Also, Iraq failed to allow UN weapons inspectors, too.
Both were illegal by Iraq's signed agreement that ceased the original war. Either action restarted the war from our side.
Any “WMD” talk is fallacious as a cause of war.
Besides, trucks were noted carried large amounts of likely chemical weapons into Syria just prior to our major attacks, for which we did not try to enter.
Although what you posted is true, fickle puritan conservatives will not continue to spew their sour grapes
There was a good case to be made for invading Iraq in 2003, and you are right that has been forgotten.
The problem was with the execution of the war, which Rumsfeld was the most to blame for. He made two disastrous assumptions:
1) The USA had solved the problems of Vietnam. We now had precision bombs! An all volunteer military! No insurgent group could hope to stand up to the might of the American military. It is telling that no one who had served in Vietnam seemed to believe this, only those who had been on the Washington side like Rummy.
2) Everyone wanted to be us. The fall of Communism and the Latin American dictatorships showed that everyone in the world wanted to live in a western democracy. The problem is that wasn’t the case in the Muslim world. The people of Iraq (and Afghanistan) had no desire for what we were giving them.
Glad to know we were “legally” entitled to make a huge mistake costing millions of lives and up to a trillion USD.