“You needed 80 years of culture rebuilding and Christianization before you attempted democracy.”
80 years of blood, treasure, and pain in the ass. Never being able to have a day pass without discussing islam. No, the trival amount of terror Saddam sponsored was not worth that.
And if it was, explain why the Saudis that sponsor orders of magnitude more terror shouldn’t have been attacked first.
Saddam was visibly supporting terror. He was openly paying the families of suicide bombers. He had training camps. He had stockpiles of yellow cake uranium and bragged about his nuclear mujadeen. And he was the only head of state to applaud 9/11.
We should have followed Britain's example and put a dictator on the throne. And we should have written the constitution not them. And that constitution needed to recognize that their culture needed to change.
And we should have used the oil both to reimburse ourselves for disposing him and to rebuild Iraq.