The President was justified in going into Iraq based solely on the fact that Saddam refused to comply with the UN Resolutions that allowed him to remain in power after Operation Desert Storm. Saddam had far too many chances to comply, and he chose not to. It didn't take the translations of these documents to convince those of us who have been paying attention ever since the first Gulf war that this war WAS justified. However, I am extremely pleased that the translations pouring in from these documents will perhaps convince those who are in denial that this war was justified. It took far too long to bring Saddam to justice.
The President was justified in going into Iraq based solely on the fact that Saddam refused to comply with the UN Resolutions that allowed him to remain in power after Operation Desert Storm. Saddam had far too many chances to comply, and he chose not to.
Your reply is exactly right and I wish people, left and right, would remember that. The Iraq war was NEVER contingent upon the existence of WMD at the precise time of the start of the war. The Iraq War is about 12 years of 17 UNSCRs of disarmament that were all breached by a regime proven to have used WMD in campaigns of genocide against innocent people and the subsequent threat that that posed on world security through continued noncompliance of disarmament.
The onus was on the Hussein regime to prove the destruction and non-existance of WMD. Whether we thought Saddam had WMD or not was irrelevant.