The Iraq War was justified

(1.1) Abu Abbas was the founder and leader of the Palestine Liberation Front. The PLF was responsible for the Achille Lauro cruise ship hijacking. During this hijacking, an elderly and disabled Jewish man (also a U.S. citizen) named Leon Klinghoffer was murdered by the PLF (Abu Abbas being one of the hijackers) and thrown overboard. This man posed no threat to the hijackers, and was sitting in a wheelchair when the hijackers shot him in the forehead and chest. The obvious cause for this shooting was that he was a Jew.Saddam Hussein welcomed Abu Abbas into his country. After the attack, he made his way to Baghdad, Iraq. Here, he spent the rest of his time commanding the PLF, with Saddam Hussein making it impossible for him to be extradited to the United States for crimes including terrorism, piracy, and murder. It was only until the Iraq war that Abu Abbas was finally killed.The Mujahadeen-e-Khalq was funded by Saddam Hussein. They are an anti-Iranian terorrist group that launched attacks on American citizens Iran. As the Council on Foriegn Relations states, 'The People's Mujahedeen of Iran, more commonly known as the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq or MEK, is listed as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the United States for its killing of U.S. personnel in Iran during the 1970s and its links to Saddam Hussein in the 1980s and 1990s.'(1.2) Saddam Hussein funded suicide bomb attacks in Israel and Palestine. BBC states that over $35 million dollars have been awarded to the families of suicide bombers between 2000 and 2003. Since there was $10000 dollars rewarded to each family, it means that Saddam Hussein funded over 3,500 suicide bomb attacks in just three years. Had he be left in power, this number would be 10,500 by the end of 2012.Considering this, it should worry us that Document BIAP 2003-000654 of the Iraqi Operation Freedom Documents was a request by Mohamad Majid Mahdi, the commander of Ali Bin Abi Taleb Air Force Base, stating 'we ask to provide that Division with the names of those who desire to volunteer for Suicide Mission to liberate Palestine and to strike American Interests and according what is shown below to please review and inform us. This shows that not only did Saddam support suicide bombing in Palestine and Israel, but that the Iraqi government had plans to strike American interests with these attacks.Saddam Hussein also plotted against the UK. A three-page Iraqi Intelligence memo regarding a wave of attacks to be conducted by the Saddam Fedayeen.According to those orders, the Fedayeen Saddam was "to start planning from now on to perform special operations (assassinations/bombings) for the centers and the traitor symbols in the fields of (London/Iran/self-ruled areas) and for coordination with the Intelligence service to secure deliveries, accommodations, and target guidance."" The Institute for Defense Analysis uncovers many different points of connection between Saddam and al Qaeda, including evidence that the IIS funded Ayman Zawahiri in the early 1990s when he was the head of Egyptian Islamic Jihad. The IIS also sought out suicide bombers to attack the Saudi royal family, and Iraq also sought to send assistance to jihadists fighting U.S. peacekeepers in Somalia in the early 1990s as well.(2.1) Article I of the Genocide Convention states, 'The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.' The Al-Anfal campaign, conducted under the leadership of Saddam Hussein, was such a genocide, killing up to 182k Kurs.Saddam and his manipulation of U.N. sanctions likely killed tens of, if not hundreds of thousands of, Iraqi citizens. The United States sanctions specifically exempted food and medicine, while banning weaponry. The excess death rates did not occur in Northern Iraq, where the US and UN administered the same program under the same sanctions regime, but only in parts of Iraq where Saddam was responsible for rationing humanitarian supplies. Independent research from the CIA after the invasion shows that five thousand children were dying every year from Saddam's manipulation of the sanctions, plus three or four times that amount from other means. This bring us to to a total of twenty thousand people a year. Weekly Standard: Four months before Saddam's fall, Human Rights Watch estimated that up to 290,000 people had "disappeared" since the late 1970s and were presumed dead. The Coalition Provisional Authority's human rights office estimates that 300,000 bodies are contained in the numerous mass graves. "And that's the lower end of the estimates," said one CPA spokesperson. In fact, the accumulated credible reports make the likely number at least 400,000 to 450,000. So, by a conservative estimate, the regime was killing civilians at an average rate of at least 16,000 a year between 1979 and March 2003. This brings us to a total of thirty six thousand people a year. Doing the math, if the United States had not invaded, it would have costs the lives of 324,000 Iraqi civilians. Instead, we are able to lift the sanctions and stop the mass murders and executions from taking place.(3.1) The ISG's key findings stated that Saddam never abandoned his intentions to resume a chemical weapons effort when sanctions were lifted. After 1991, Saddam did express his intent to retain the intellectual capital, or the know-how that was developed during the Iraqi Nuclear Program. Starting around 1992, in a bid to retain the intellectual core of the former weapons program workers with know-how, Baghdad transferred many nuclear scientists to related jobs in the Military Industrial Commission (MIC). The work undertaken by these scientists at the MIC helped them maintain their weapons knowledge base. The Regime prevented scientists from the former nuclear weapons program from leaving either their jobs or Iraq. Moreover, in the late 1990s, personnel from both MIC and the IAEC received significant pay raises in a bid to retain them, and the Regime undertook new investments in university research in a bid to ensure that Iraq retained technical knowledge on how to restart their WMD program.(3.2) ISG judged, based on available chemicals, infrastructure, and scientist debriefings, that Iraq at OIF probably had a capability to produce large quantities of sulfur mustard within three to six months. The ISG's key findings stated that Saddam never abandoned his intentions to resume a chemical weapons effort when sanctions were lifted.ISG uncovered information that the Iraqi Intelligence Service (IIS) maintained throughout 1991 to 2003 a set of undeclared covert laboratories to research and test various chemicals and poisons, primarily for intelligence operations. The existence, function, and purpose of the laboratories of which were never declared to the UN.(4.1) In March, 2007, Larry Schweikart, Professor of History at the University of Dayton and a military historian, calculated that, "a low estimate of 30,000 terrorists have been killed since 9/11, and an upperbound number of 60,000. On top of that, between 120 and 240,000 terrorists have been wounded. This is where it gets tricky. Likely because their medicine isn’t as good as ours, they have a higher death rate among wounded, which probably means that instead of 1 out of 8 dying of wounds, it’s more like 3 out of 8, and that number is in my first set of stats. In addition, we have captured close to 50,000 terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq since 9/11, and since the beginning of hostilities in Iraq, using traditional desertion rates, I figure at least another 10,000 jihadists have put away the old IED and gone home. So, a low estimate is that we have removed from the order of battle about 210,000 on the low end to 360,000 on the high end. This is an entire generation of jihadists, and will, if nothing else, significantly feminize Muslim society."Sources in comments.