There Never Should Have Been An Iraq War

1) The reason we invaded Iraq was for reasons far more than weapons of mass destruction. Saddam Hussein was a tyrant who waged many wars in the Middle East, supported and aided numerous Aab invasions of Israel, threatened to invade Saudi Arabia, did overrun Kuwait, and caused the UN to bring about sanctions against Iraq. Saddam was also known to have an extensive chemical weapons arsenal and has used several chemical weapons against his own people while suppressing many humans rights and threatening world peace. Meanwhile, after the 9/11 attacks, America is still scrambling how to defend themselves from another surprise attack against people they origionally did not see as a threat while assessing who now has the most power and is the largest threat to national security. America had long assessed its defense against nations militaries but never had addressed that countries known to harbor terrorists or are simply cynical enough to harbor any enemies against the United States. As of 2001 three enemies came up, Iran, North Korea, and Iraq. So not only does Saddam have a notoriously bad relations not only with the US, or even the West, but even countries in the Middle East do not look kindly towards Saddam seeing as he is one of the largest threats to peace in the most armed area of the world, that being the Middle East. Point is, we had plenty of reasons to go to war with Iraq, they were a legit threat, other countries feared Saddam, and Saddam was a tyrant towards everyone, including Iraqi's2) One cannot get what he wants by simply trying to go into an arms race against other nations. Iraq could not be dealt with diplomatically since there had been numerous sanctions against them from the UN to discontinue weapons production which they continued with anyways. Meanwhile all other forms of diplomcay did not yield any results since Saddam was notorious for making agreements with the rest of the world and then months later continue doing whatever the hell he wanted to do.... Iraq wasnt trying to beat the United States in nuclear arms production, they openly harbored enemies against the US and threatened to invade several wealthy oil nations for his own countries gain. Producing nukes wouldnt have stopped him, and UN sanctions werent working either. 3) Now we did spend a lot of money on Iraq but that was because no country ever goes through a forced government change and comes out of it completely fine. The US spent a good amount of money just trying to get iraq back together and give it a functioning working government while getting rid of terrorists and extremists who were now openly waging war against American troops. When Saddam fell from power people were very grateful, but watching Saddam fall was only half of their wish, Iraqi's also wanted a financially and economically better future which they hoped the US could provide. However in 2008 we discovered we cannot even figure out how to give ourselves economic assurance, let alone a third world country on the other side of the world. The realization that the US only brought about half of its promise (deposing Saddam and not helping the country improve) that is when some Iraqi's began to detste American presence. By the way to claim that all Iraqi's are not thankful for liberating them is far from the truth. Most Iraqi's were upset of the US's continuous presence in Iraq when they were not needed. (The shoe thing was one reporter one time by an Iraqi reporter)The Iraq war was necessary, our presence there for 8 years though was definately questionable, but the Iraq war was necessary