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There was never any good evidence, it was always "trust the CIA!"
Well, if you put it that way... no.
Iraq is nowhere near Afghanistan either. And the US has international weapons inspectors in Iraq annually after the first war. They posed no threat to us... we still had a frickin no fly zone over half the damned country, what were they going to do?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_no-fly_zones_conflict
Fascinating history, but the war against Iraq never really ended. We were constantly bombing Iraq on the daily 1999 through 2003.
David Kelly, British weapons inspector who lead multiple UN missions to inspect Iraqi facilities (and deal with their bullshit) first hand...
But DID
And this is the guy conspiracy theorists think got assassinated because he was too opposed to the governments. Even he argued that what he'd seen showed Saddam should be forcably toppled...