During his reign of several decades, he was internationally known for his use of chemical weapons in the 1980s against civilians and in the Iran-Iraq War. Following the 1991 Gulf War he also engaged in a decade-long confrontation with the United Nations and its weapons inspectors, which ended in the 2003 invasion by the United States.
The Iraq Survey Group found indications that Saddam intended to resume WMD activities if and when military sanctions were lifted.
No I don't agree. He had them. Everyone knew he had them. The UN weapons inspectors repeatedly reported Saddam was playing cat and mouse with them. One day those weapons will turn up somewhere, probably in another country buried in the sand.
But just the same, those two snippets I quoted are reason enough to warrant taking the madman out.
You also seem to forget that one of the loudest mouths for going to war in Iraq at that time was none other then Hillary Clinton herself. She did more lobbying for that war than Bush did.
