Please don't forget that Libya gave up its nuclear ambitions and program shortly after the fall of Saddam. And in doing so, revealed the pernicious Pakistani Kahn's peddling of nuclear secrets and material to various terrorist organizations and states around the globe. This point alone, IMHO, justifies Bush's WOT effort so far. Unfortunately, this monumental step in the right direction gets no mention and the stupid Bush Administration neglects to ever mention it as one of its chief accomplishments. Imagine the world with Muammar al-Gaddafi armed to the teeth with WMDs... Now give thanks to President Bush's WOT for preventing this.
Thanks very much for those reminders. Unintended consequences. Collateral yardage. Progress ON.
Don't forget also that Iraq had an assembled nuke by 1994. It only lacked the nuclear core. There was to be no test. Saddam wanted to drop the device on Israel without warning. I don't understand how people have gotten the idea in their heads that removing this devil from power was some kind of mistake. There is indeed a lack of clear thinking today.