Quote Originally Posted by Mr. Clandestine
Saddam was a despicable human being, and it's widely known that he was fully capable and willing to murder scores of his own countrymen with mustard gas and Sarin. Piles of Kurdish bodies are still being found today who met their ends at the hands of a cruel dictator and his biological and chemical WMDs. Saddam was using these weapons LONG before Bush took office, and it's kinda silly to think he had absolutely none right before the invasion. I think some people are getting confused into thinking that the term "weapons of mass destruction" only applies to nuclear missiles and similar exploding weapons. They account for a lot more than that...

For those of you screaming Iraq was just an innocent bystander: Barring mountains, do you really think it would be difficult to transport anything out of a country in that region? Better yet - if you were a cowardly dictator that was responsible for mass murdering countless innocent civilians with chemical/biological weapons, AND you knew that the Americans were pissed off and heading your way, wouldn't you send your WMDs out of the country, too?
The US was threatening to attack them. However you seemed to forgotten UN weapons inspections was going on at the time. America never intended to let them finish. It was obvious.

Rather than doing the smart thing and try to account for all the weapons possible, we move in and destroy any traces of evidence linking Iraq to WMD. If this was the US's true intention, more vigilance and restraint would be used before attacking.

Unfortunately the fact is this entire conflict was about money, an economic stimulus and securing access to resources for the future. Bush made the right move for economic reasons.