Your opinions about War in Iraq...

He never bluffed about WMDs? He never tried to have George H.W. Bush assassinated?

He bluffed.

And he got called out on his bluff.

The 9-11 terrorists were Arabs, and Americans saw in his rogue regime, another Arab threat against America.

But the regime itself is not a DIRECT threat.

That sucks for the Saudis but not for the Americans.

Yeah, but radicalism is merely a byproduct of the Saudi monarchy's support for madrassas in underdeveloped Muslim nations whereas Saddam made very open, his distate for America and her allies in the region.

The war was not about oil. Oil is only a partial equation. The war is about fighting a radical terrorist threat that originates in the Middle East.

Following the attacks of 9-11, the American public was not coerced into believing any propoganda put forth by the US government, they readily accepted the fear that those attacks brought to their everyday lives, and the invasion of Iraq and bombing of Afghanistan were reactions to that fateful day. Why did the US never attack Iraq or Afghanistan before that? The US was even in talks with the Taliban for developing a pipeline through Afghanistan and possibly recognizing them as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan until that fateful day.

Some elements of the US government intentionly deceived the American public, other elements of the US government did not really know. Either way, this  viewpoint that you label as propoganda would never have had been possible without the attacks of 9-11 and the actions of bin Laden and his henchmen to declare unprovoked war against the US.

How would the US government have known when the IAEA did not even know anything about this b/c Saddam kept kicking them out, then allowing them in only to kick them out again?

If the US knew, then why would it risk such embarrassment afterwards?

He bluffed. He got called out on his bluff. He was not a very smart man. He should have been open like Muammar Qaddafi of Libya and let in the inspectors and admitted that he had no such weapons or designs on no such weapons. Why did he not do that? B/c he was a retard? He could have had the same deal that Libya and Qaddafi got, but he was a completely incompetent ruler and b/c of his fallacy, his bloated ego, all he got was a hanging!

If Saddam was not a threat to the US, then he should have come out in the open and said as much and acknowledged as much, but he did not, and the US was compelled to remove him from power so that no more 9-11s would occur.

Perception can change. Perception is changing. As the years since 9-11 go by, Arab-American experience less discrimination, and there is some sympathy for the Palestinians �certainly a lot more now than there was immediately following 9-11.