Who said it had? my remark was aimed at your:

"We do know that Saddam did not have weapons of mass destruction."

OK. I didn't say it had anything to do with it either. In fact I said, and you repeated, that speculation was nothing to do with hindsight. Glad we agree on that.

Once again, two topics that have nothing to do with each other have somehow become conflated. I guess it may be me that did it and, if so, I apologise. I didn't think I had combined the two though so let us separate them and move on.

First, we have agreed that hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Next, can we now also agree that no one can possibly be sure how things would have gone if we had not entered the war? We can make as many confident assertions that it would have gone one way or another as we like but, as it never happened, we may as well be writing fiction. We did enter the war so it went as it did. Anything to do with what might have happened if we had not is made up.