He was doing what every president does. Acting on the info given to him by his advisors. The kind of stuff BO will do just to find his way around every issue.
Everyone knows Sadaam had these weapons, because he did indeed use them on his own people. he got rid of them, and then He led everyone to believe he did have them (so i'd rather not blame my country)...maybe to discredit the US after the invasion.
But i believe after going in (similar to finding concentration camps in WW2) and finding the torture and killing that was going on there (you tube it - IT AINT WATERBOARDING) pouring hot plastic on people , skinning them, throwing them off buildings....and to have a democratic stronghold in the middle of the middle east as an example to these people who denegrate their women, and stone to death 8 year olds.
There are some that would say then what about darfur, or another atrocity...Well, at the time, we were led to believe (my sadaams false information) that there was a threat to the country (there were al qaeda training bases there).
i wonder what the people THERE think, as opposed to the monday morning quarterbacking on this when history hasnt yet been written. Give it (and by it i mean historians) 10 years
Thats a serious oath, to protect and defend the people and the constitution. And sometimes, the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. An example would be, the regretable deaths of servicemen ad their civilians, but also think of the people on that flight that brought it down over Pennsylvania and how the Air Force could have shot it down before it did much more harm. Scary.