All that is true. However, Donald Trump is correct: Taking out Saddam destabilized the Iran/Iraq conflict.
I was a civilian contractor at the Marine Corps Intelligence Activity during Desert Storm, and while the military invasion plans were amazing, there was no real planning on how to handle the defeated armed forces and the liberated civilian population. “Let them loot!” is not a good policy for restoring order and establishing “democracy”. The de-Baathification program was a disaster and left such a power vacuum that the country never recovered. Everyone in the deck of cards other than the four Aces should have been co-opted into the new government.
Which is entirely irrelevant to the point. GWB did not "decide to take out Hussein because he felt that Hussein's continued rule over Iraq was affront to Bush1."
The Baathists were secular socialists whom the Islamo-Fascists despised.
I was working in some European country in 2000 and underground sale catalogue of items from Museums of countries invaded by USA after 9/11 were available.
Museums were looted during shock and Awe and items were in market within month.
Go Figure.