Not to be an ass, but Iraq was leading to either another war with Iran, or a war with Saudi Arabia as the Ba'athist party was at odds with both, or just another genocide. The Iraq-Iran war caused (depending on the figures) over a million deaths and at least a trillion dollars in economic damage. The extreme high estimate for the Invasion of Iraq sits at 100,000, and 1/100th the civilian casualties of the Iraq-Iran war.
Personally it didn't improve my quality of life one bit, I had friends and family get deployed over there and I would have preferred they weren't for their and my own sake. I was opposed to the war, I was calling the WMD claims bullshit from the start. I know why the war happened, but I'd have rather our people have been kept out of it and just let Saddam and Ahmadinejad fucktard it out by killing hundreds of thousands of their own people.
I don't know if you're actually Iraqi, or just trying to make a point, if you are I'm sorry for my callousness, but I honestly don't think my friend should have had to be in a Hummer that got hit by an IED because the Iraqi government had a history of going apeshit with mustard gas on civilian populations, just because my government didn't want some retard fiesta in the Middle East to put us into a great depression when the oil industry and all derivative industries halt.
Your view of Iraq's military capabilities and of it's military potential in 2000 is badly wrong. Iraq, by 2000, was a shell of its former self militarily speaking. The sanctions, no fly zones, and complete domination of its military in the early 90s ensured this.
Saudi Arabia, after the first Gulf War, was not in any way threatened by Iraq. Saudi Arabia supported Iraq in its war with Iran.
It is most interesting that you point out Iraq's usage of mustard gas. Said usage occurred during the Iran/Iraq war. The usage was supported by the U.S. until it was applied to Iraqi Kurds. Then there was some moral posturing but the weapons, support, and money kept flowing to Iraq so that they could continue the fight with Iran.
