As I understand it, Saddam wanted the world to believe he still had WMDs to keep Iran from invading Iraq.It was a huge bluff that didn't work. Bush wanted war and Bush got war. period.

The solution is so simple. We should simply stay the hell out of other people's business! We gave them reason to hate us, so now we hate them for not knuckling under to us.

They have been killing each other for hundreds of years and what we did was try to break up a dog fight. No one with brains does that.