If Iraq ever had some third rate chemical WMD’s, it was not an urgent threat to security of United States.
Much bigger threats existed and still exist in North Korea who has nukes and on fast track to develop missile delivery systems to reach US. How about Pakistan, which infested with Jihadists, has more Madrassah’s than anywhere else, Taliban was conceived and nurtured by ISI of Pakistan, and that country has at least 100 nukes.
Saddam was carrying on a charade of possessing WMD’s mainly to dissuade his bigger and more powerful enemy, Iran, from invading Iraq.
So with Bush’s Iraq invasion, we have handed Iran the gift of a weakened and fragmented Iraq on a silver platter. Talk about stupid foreign policy!
If you have time, do some research on Ahmed Chalabi and his role in the U.S. invasion of Iraq. He was an Iraqi Shi'ite who lived in exile after the Sunni Ba'athist government assumed power in Iraq in the 1950s. He was one of the strongest champions of the U.S. military campaigns against Iraq in the 1990s, and was a key player in the Iraqi transitional government after the U.S. invasion in 2003.
When they write the honest history books about the early 2000s, I would not be surprised to learn that the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003 because the Bush administration was filled with paid agents of the Iranian government.