Further, you can't honestly believe Saddam didn't have WMD can you? He's used them to kill untold civilians during his 30 year rein. Watch a few History Channel shows about his subject. Read a few books out of the 100's about this subject.
No right thinking person honestly believes Saddam didn't have WMD. The only difference of opinion among the Security Council was what to do about them. Not whether or not he had them.
Exactly. Not even France, Germany, or Russia disputed whether Saddam had these weapons. Moreover, no sane person could dispute that Saddam was perfectly willing to use these weapons against his enemies and that he actively worked with and supported terrorist organizations (his regime was itself a terrorist organization as well). Bush put the world on notice on September 20, 2001 that the days of these terrorists organizations, and the regimes who support them, are numbered.
I honestly believe that he terminated his program in the mid 90's since he was too closely watched to do anything significant.
I know that Saddam was a bad guy. In that he was not unusual. The Ruandan civil war killed 800,000 human beings in 100 days (8,000/day) in 1994-95 and we ignored the issue. Why? Could it be that there was no oil at stake?
What about Cuba, Zimbabwe, China, North Korea, etc., all evil governments. Should we do a regime change war for each of them?
It is not the business of the US government to risk our soldiers lives and spend gobs of our money to slay every dragon in the world. Our business should be limited to protecting ourselves, and knowing what we are doing when we act. In fact, we have made our terror risk HIGHER by this war since we took no WMD's out of circulation and angered many people, who are now aching to sign up with Al Queda or similar organizations.