"Saddam kept on pissing off the UN people who were charged with searching for the WMD's."

It may seem like a minor point, but the weapons inspectors were not supposed to be searching for the chemcal, biological or nuclear weapons. The were there the receive them and help arrange their proper disposal.

Saddam was bound, by his signature at the Safwan surrender, to obey all UN resolutions. Those resolutions demanded that he turn all long range SCUDS, all chemical agents, all biological agents, all projectiles designed to deliver such agents, all nuclear material of any kind, all equipment (such as his German-made centifuges) than were desiged to enrich uranium, etc. etc. etc...

Making the UN inspectors run arround and like a bunch of fools at an Easter egg hunt made Saddam laugh, I suppose, but it had to end. Too dangerous a monster. We had to put him down and we did.