The Iraq War was justified, in several ways.

[HillGoose]

-  Saddam Hussein agreed not to shoot at American planes anymore after the Gulf War, which he did every day while Bill "The coward who let a million Rwandans butcher each other" Clinton was in office.

- The war on terror is not just a war on terrorists, it is a war on regimes who in any way support or prop up those who wish to do America harm. Don't act like Ba'athist Iraq wanted to protect America in any way.

- No one here wants to talk about Georges Sada, a general in Iraq under Saddam Hussein, who let America know that Saddam Hussein used the Zeyzoun dam disaster in the summer of 2002 to transport the weapons of mass destruction that Iraq possessed to Bashar Al-Assad's Syria. If no threat of war or American invasion was present, Saddam Hussein would without a doubt have used the WMDs to strike the East Coast, killing millions of Americans. Unless you watch FOX News, you wouldn't have heard anything Georges Sada said.

[HillGoose]

Saddam Hussein was a b**tch and I'm glad the Americans decided to end his regime of terror. The way the intervention was handled after removing Saddam from power, however, was a disaster.

the only mistake was that Obama and the Democrats were determined to withdraw from Iraq and did so about 50 to 100 years too early

[HillGoose]

I'm troubled with the reasoning that "good intentions" can serve as a justification here. What really matters in the end are the results, and the results are pretty tragic. (All this assuming Bush's motivations were of a humanitarian nature, something I'm not convinced about at all). And going to war on a whim (and given the lack of immediate threat and other options being far from exhausted, that's what happened then) is not justified, just as plunging head on into such an enterprise based on inconclusive intelligence is not justified as well. And it's pretty clear the administration wasn't just basing its assumption on faulty intelligence, it was actively pushing the course from the beggining.

Is Saddam breaking a ceasefire agreement every day for 12 years not a good enough justification?

I would say we waited too long, because clearly Saddam was walking all over us.