At the time - everyone’s, and I mean everyone’s intelligence service said Saddam had WMD - even those intelligence services from country’s who did not support us. Saddam refused to allow confirmation of destruction of WMD’s over and over again. He violated the UN treaty several times over.
He acted as though he not only had WMD, but was expanding the program to possibly include nuclear weapons. Why did he do that? I don’t know.
We knew he was sponsoring terrorist actions against Israel. 9/11 had taught us that we were vulnerable and leaving Saddam and his regime intact was perceived as a definite threat.
The fear was, do we wait for definite proof of his having WMDs, which in the meantime he may use against us, or, do we remove the threat now. Bush staked his political reputation on this action and now we know what? There there definitely were no WMDs? Has that been truly verified? Has it definitely been proven that he wasn’t working with Al Quedia? The post-Saddam Iraq was a screw-up by us and I think that is what damaged out reputation most.
Still a lot of unanswered questions to me, but maybe I just do not have the whole story.
The other thing that many people forget is that the war gave us the opportunity to kill thousands of terrorists in Iraq. The war attracted many of the nuts in the world into the Sunni triangle area. We killed many dangerous people there as opposed to having to hunt them down somewhere else.
How many of those terrorists would have eventually made it to the US or some other place in the world to kill innocent Americans?
It only fits into one logical category; order out of chaos. Check the CFR membership. Check the damage done by the NWO Bush Mafia clan.