WillReadmore
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True. The foreign relations aspects of the policy of SH are more understandable than Bush ever acknowledged. SH was at serious risk from at least two nations - the US and Iran. He had to try to seem like a hard target to Iran while depending on his former partner (the US) to be rational.You aren't considering all of the conditions and circumstances that existed and weighed on W's decisions at the time before the invasion.
Did you know that while in our custody Saddam admitted to the FBI about intentionally bluffing and misleading the world to believe he possessed WMD's?
Absolutely he did.
His arch enemy Iran was on his border, and yet he wasn't even allowed to move his ground forces around Iraq. One US analyst famously stated that Iran could take southern Iraq with an ice cream truck with a bull horn.
Could Saddam be confident that the US would come to the aid of Iraq if Iran had invaded during that period?
Iraq went to war with Iran at the US behest.
The US even supplied them with a good amount of weapons to get the job done, most notably chemical weapons.
Then the US attacked Iraq, several times.
Then? Imposed sanctions.
Anyone with even the rudimentary knowledge of the history, knows that Iraq had no WMDs.
The US most certainly knew it.
The Bush administration floated the big bad boogeyman supporting Al Qaeda and capable of using chemical/biological/nuclear weapons against the US.
That was a ridiculous assertion.
But it was "good enough" to get us in there.
Faint hope!