Think about Saddam with nuclear weapons.
Think seriously about Saddam with nuclear weapons, or even his using his chemical weapons outside of Iraq.
The option to war with Iraq would have been an assassination of Saddam. World leaders definitely don’t want to open THAT Pandora’s box.
If Saddam had WMDs he would have used them to defend his regime and himself. How ridiculous to say Saddam had a dangerous weapon when he didn’t deploy that weapon when it meant life or death for him. If he didn’t use the supposed WMDs to save his own life, they either didn’t exist - which even Bush and Cheney finally admitted - or they were no threat in the first place. Bush eventually changed his justification for invading , to “Operation Iraqi freedom”, bring “freedom” to Iraqis. In other words, trillions of dollars forregime change - which freed jihadis to go on rampages throughout Iraq and the Middle East