Yes, because that was not the real reason for the war. Dead simple.

Lies are believed if they are repeated often enough. Half the people in the USA seem to believe Saddam was somehow responsible for 9/11, for example. You want a lie to be believed? Just imply it, suggest it, and keep suggesting it until it is believed by people who are too busy or lazy to bother actually informing themselves about much.

Some Arabs were happy when the WTC towers were hit. Yeah...so? Some Americans are happy whenever the US Air Force bombs hell out of an Arab city, and destroys its palaces and government buildings, etc...

Tell me what the difference is?

Does the happiness of some people at the discomfort of their supposed enemy justify launching a retaliatory war on those people and devastating a whole country? No, it does not.

It just leads to further trouble farther on down the road.

And Saddam? He could never have become what he did without massive American assistance...when they thought they needed him as a bulwark against Islamic fundamentalist, Shiites, and Iran. He became a "made-in-America" dictator, like so many others...and then he fell out of favor...like a good many others.

- LH