However the 'evidence' was at best faulty and at worst outright lies.
Bush's intelligence gathering looked for confirmation of a dogmatic view on WMDs and ignored falsifying evidence which would have proved contradictory to their pre-planned war. They had a pretext and a scapegoat and all further investigations which may have revealed the truth to their lies were deemed unnecessary.
Saddam was a bad guy and I'm glad he's gone. The war was bad too and I am sorry God told Bush to invade Iraq.
Osama's a bad guy too, remember him? Along with the Saudis he, and not Saddam, was responsible for 9/11. And yet... he's still out there. You still feel safe Jimbo? America is still sucking on the Saudis and rolling over for them despite there being much clearer links between their money and 9/11 and Saddam and 9/11. Do you still feel safe Jimbo?
[starkiller, so sorry about the fuckup. I can understand how anyone would be annoyed to be mistaken for such an ignorant one-note parrot as jimbo.]