...Saddam was who they were after.
So, this wasn't about WMD, harboring terrorists, imminent threats, etc. It was, after all and as I suspected, motivated by the conviction of a man who was simultaneously denied entrance to a Texas State College law school on academic grounds and accepted to Harvard Business School on financial grounds "that thar Sad-Dam tried to keel mah da-deeee, Eye's a gonna get 'im."
Nice to know our foreign policy is in the hands of adults.