[morkalork]

The Iraqi people living under Saddam weren't so happy either but did that justify invasion on the false premise of WMDs and the resulting hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths? I'd be on board with your statement if another Republican hadn't already pulled the same dumb shit within my lifetime before..

[dzhiurgis]

What would have been a justifiable premise for invasion then?

[geon]

Actual WMDs?

[dzhiurgis]

Life in Iraq before WMDs wasn't exactly paradise...

[ben_w]

"wasn't exactly paradise" places the bar is so low it would justify invading Disneyland.

Iraq gave up its WMD research programs in 1991, so the "before time" is 1962: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_and_weapons_of_mass_destr...

"Doesn't have any WMDs" is also something I can say about Disneyland.

But Disney World did get permission to build their own nuclear reactor: https://www.ans.org/news/article-6500/disney-world-should-ha...