I hate to say it but Moonglow is right. We invaded during the Bush Sr. admin. We were enforcing UN sanctions for about 12 years when Bush Jr. finally had Saddam removed.
They're not the boogeyman the warmongering AP makes them out to be. They sent soldiers to fight ISIS in Syria, and suffer terrorist border attacks often.
Well more fake news disorder, in order to enforce those sanctions we would have had to go into Iraq and your lame attempt at semantics is evidence you watch to much fake news, what U.S. war started in 2003? [I fully expect you to not know this] we went into Afghanistan in 01 and Iraq in 03 and the media/liberals were claiming Afghanistan was just a springboard for an Iraq war... so in order for you and moon to be right the news of the time would have to be fake...just look it up, you can do that can't you? I dare you to look it up. I guarantee you will learn something new and true.
And it was the U.N. enforcing those sanctions and Hans Blix telling the world there was no need to invade.