You are right "WHO CARES' if there wasn't any stockpiles of WMD's. I believe the real reason that we chose Irac was th draw the terrorist to one place. I heard some use the analogy that if you wanted to catch flies you hung the fly paper outside so that it would catch the flies before they came inside. The plan has worked perfect. We are a military family so I do no dismiss the loss of everyone of the brave that has lost their lives in this was, but we loose thousands and thousands of young people every year to pointless deaths such as, teenagedrivers, drunks not to mention the loss of life from shootings and other forms of violence.
We also sent a message to other rogue states like Libya and Syria, that they could be next. Kaddafy Duck sure wised up, didn't he?