12 years of continuous violation of the terms of the cease-fire agreement, among other things.
I hope we never violate terms arbitrarily imposed on us by someone halfway around the world; all we’ve done is create a radical state where a secular one had lasted for decades.
And we didn’t even know that Saddam had farmed out his nuclear weapons research to Libya until Daffy turned the program over to the US after we invaded Iraq. Of course, Saddam funding every terrorist group who wandered in from the desert did not help his case. This INCLUDED al Queda operatives with who he had been working since the group was founded. There were multiple justifiable reasons for invasion as you know.