One additional thought.
When World War II was in the "beginning" stages - many, many nations, European and non-European, took the, "It isn't our business," stance. Slowly but surely, nation after nation fell.
When MILLIONS of people were vanishing off the face of the earth, the world looked the other way. It "wasn't their problem," it "didn't concern them," etc.
Ignoring the plague doesn't make the plague go away.
I know that today is rather popular to say that the President of the US "let Pearl Harbor happen so we would have to join the war." Without stopping to ask, "Why are you blaming HIM for Japan's attack??" He didn't PLAN the attack. He didn't "encourage" the attack.
We looked the other way time after time after time:
Kidnapping of Embassy Official, March 16, 1984: The Islamic Jihad kidnapped and later murdered Political Officer William Buckley in Beirut, Lebanon. Other U.S. citizens not connected to the U.S. government were seized over a succeeding two-year period.
Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship provided headquarters, operating bases, training camps, and other support to terrorist groups fighting the governments of neighboring Turkey and Iran, as well as to hard-line Palestinian groups. During the 1991 Gulf War, Saddam commissioned several failed terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities.
Saddam has aided the Iranian dissident group Mujahedeen-e-Khalq and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (known by its Turkish initials, PKK), a separatist group fighting the Turkish government.
Iraq has hosted several Palestinian splinter groups that oppose peace with Israel, including the mercenary Abu Nidal Organization, whose leader, Abu Nidal, was found dead in Baghdad in August 2002.
Iraq has also supported the Islamist Hamas movement and reportedly channeled money to the families of Palestinian suicide bombers.
Has Iraq ever used weapons of mass destruction?
Yes. In the 1980s Iran-Iraq War, Iraqi troops repeatedly used poison gas, including mustard gas and the nerve agent sarin, against Iranian soldiers.
Iranian officials also accuse Iraq of dropping mustard-gas bombs on Iranian villages. Human Rights Watch reports that Iraq frequently used nerve agents and mustard gas against Iraqi Kurds living in the country’s north. In March 1988, Saddam’s forces reportedly killed thousands of Iraqi Kurds in the town of Halabja with chemical weapons.
Innocent?