This is somewhat disturbing, but one must also realize that Saddam Hussein himself was a weapon of mass destruction and had to be removed from power and diplomacy just was not going to do the trick.
Saddam Hussein was a WMD? What does that mean? That's got to be the lamest excuse for no weapons I've ever heard.
Yes, he killed hundreds if not thousands of his own citizens just for not agreeing with him.
Pretty standard authoritarian conditions. I certainly don't condone such actions, but it's hardly US policy to start wars over such things. Look at Darfur, for instance. Countless dead and we haven't done anything. Further, nearly all these atrocities took place in the Reagan years when Saddam Hussein was a US ally. It just doesn't make sense as a reason for war.
