"The claims about WMD were false and intentionally exaggerated to provide a casus belli in the absence of any other acceptable one."


WE DID NOT NEED a casus belli, under present international law. Saddam HAD violated the terms of the ceasefire, and the US was authorized AND REQUIRED to act under the 1991 ( and later) UN resolutions.

WHAT PART OF THIS do you not understand? I cannot believe that you are that stupid- this must be an intentional tactic to ignore what you don't want to believe.