Not sure what your point is listing all those things Saddam Hussein did not do.
He didn’t shoot Kennedy either if I recall.
He was an evil, evil dictator who killed, tortured and starved his own people.
Nobody can be sure how many of his own people he killed but at least a hundred thousand probably much more.
So ... maybe that was none of our business ... maybe they were just Iraqis and deserved it.
But back then we had some sense of obligation to save innocent people no matter their race.
Saddam deserved to die. I’m glad he’s dead, even if he didn’t shoot John Lennon.
OK, by your logic we should have invaded the USSR when Stalin was killing tens of millions.
I know this is a worn out response, but it is not our place to be the world’s policeman.
We cannot make a justification to take down one dictator, but then back away from another. Once you go down the road of “per-emptive” war, there is no end to it. Unless you can demonstrate a rock-solid case that a nation is a clear and immediate threat to our existence you have no business dragging the U.S. into a war ... particularly when the history of the belligerents involves Islam.
There has never been “good guys” in the Muslim world; there are none now, and there never will be. Islam is pure evil. All of its agents and practitioners are utterly corrupt barbarians. There is no “democratizing” them. They are, to the very last man, a depraved inbred - and therefore genetically devolving - race, having not even one virtuous quality. If you want to “fix” the ME, then nuke it out of existence - all of it. That is the only solution, because there will never be peace there - the genetic deformity of the inhabitants makes intelligence, reason, and good will an absolute impossibility.