Of course he had WMDs. He used them on the Kurds just because they were plotting to take him out.
Ok, we have to start somewhere, how about when the Actor supplied him with the gas he used to kill Kurds? He was our fair haired boy until Bush 1 and his Ambassador told Saddam that we didn't care what he did over there. He saw Kuwait as a part of Iraq that he wanted back, and he had the green light to take it.
Just like when Dean Acheson told the North Koreans that there was nothing in SE Asia that we cared about, they took that as a green light to reunite Korea by invading the south.
Voltaire was right.

I'm not going to stick my nose into your difference of opinion with Bobert, but I do need to say that personal attacks will end the discussion.