There were mobile biolabs in Iraq, there were tons of precursors in Iraq, there was a children’s prison in Iraq, Saddam Hussein did bribe Scott Ritter and others using Khafaji, Salir Vincent, and oil vouchers, there was a prototype of banned equipment found in Iraq, and Saddam Hussein was in violation of the cease fire agreement he agreed to. Zarqawi’s terrorist group -later renamed ISIS and still under his command- did operate in and from both Baghdad and Northern Iraq and Syria prior to the invasion, and before the invasion did assassinate USAID official Lawrence Foley in Jordan. And Zarqawi’s group merged formally with an arm of Saddam Hussein’s Baathist Intel people commanded by his red headed General al during the insurgency.
And there was a phony “insider” named Cueball, and a liar who said he met with AlQaeda in Prague who were supposedly acting in conjunction with Saddam, and the “George Washington of Iraq”, one Achmed Chalabi, who got one-half of one percent of the vote in the Iraqi election for president, and Saddam was supposedly trying to buy uranium or some such thing in Africa, and the population of Iraq used to be 10 percent Christian, and Iraq used to be the sworn enemy of Iran. And we used to have 4500 of our best in uniform who are now dead, and many more thousands maimed and for what?
Is Iraq and that part of the world a better place now than before we got involved there? How about Afghanistan or Libya? We should probably learn to not do wars of choice anymore. We are not very good at it and every place we fight a war of choice ends up much worse off than it was before we intervened. The world police thing we do is a waste of blood and treasure that has accomplished nothing good I can see.