WMD's in Iraq wasn't an "excuse". It was way down on the list of priorities that included about a hundred U.N. sanctions on the Saddam regime.. The democrat party and the media conspired to put WMD's at the top of the list and turn it into a political issue to make the Bush administration look bad. Even Bill Clinton said there were WMD's in Iraq and Bush gave Saddam about a year to get rid of them.