Faith like yours is of the religious dimension, Teribus...unshakeable. Hans Ulrich Rudel was like that too (Germany's highest-scoring Stuka ace...he destroyed about 500 Russian tanks and a battleship, and never lost faith in his party, his country or his leaders). That's faith. It doesn't change the fact that the Nazis were a destructive administration, supported by ordinary people who didn't know any better. So is the present US administration.
A country that has significant weapons of mass destruction does not go down before a foreign invasion without using them. If Iraq had had such weapons they would have used them.
The most significant real weapon of mass destruction we have seen in recent times has been the avalance of false propaganda, spin doctoring, and outright lies with which the Bush administration manipulated the American public and launched its illegal and unprovoked war of aggression on Iraq, its former client state, which state would not have come into existence (under Saddam, I mean) without the previous assistance of the USA, a country which is governed by people who care about only one thing...WINNING the game of World domination. And that game has absolutely nothing to do with either democracy or freedom. It has to do with everything opposed to both of those principles.
Saddam was playing a similar game...on a much more localized scale. He was a mere convenient excuse for America. A marketable "face" for people to hate. They don't need him anymore, now that they have Iraq. They will soon find some other "bad guy" for naive people to obsess about, so that another war of aggression can be launched without provocation or need, against another opponent who has less chance than a fish in a barrel.
(By the way, I think it was the Saudis who actually planned and backed 911. But you won't hear much about that. Iraq certainly did not do it.)
Imperial Rome, Teribus. You're just a loyal Roman, repeating what you've believed all your life, so you can't see it any differently. And I'm fairly sure you never will. If you really believe in these preemptive wars, why not pick up your sword or gun, enlist, and face it in the front line with the rest of the Empire's troops? Too old? Well, that's a shame...a man who believes in supporting naked aggression oughta get a chance to join the action, I think, and gain some martial glory as the Imperial juggernaut rolls on over another little country.