Iraq disarmed of 90-95% of its WMD by 99

"UN inspectors... were perfectly clear in declaring Iraq 'fundamentally disarmed' of '90%-95%' of its WMD by December 1998. This assertion was simply ignored by the media ahead of the war."
--Media Lens, How The Press Buried The Truth
 
Don't forget that a sizeable portion of those WMDs were chemical weapons that the U.S., under Reagan and Bush Sr, with Rumsfeld as an envoy to Saddam, supplied him with for his fight against Iran.

Ironic that then we find it convenient over ten years after the end of that war to persecute him for doing what we wanted him to: kill Iranians. All because we can conveniently do so given the powers we have now that he is in custody. It wasn't wrong then but it sure as hell is wrong now that we want to burn him. Heh.

I don't like Saddam, I'm just looking at the facts here about what else happened when he wasn't killing his own people and political opponents (which, in 1991, occured right under the nose of our armored divisions sitting on the cease fire line in the Iraqi desert).