I've been trying to condense all the various myths about it, such as the idea there were no WMD's found or the idea we killed bajillions of civilians (Saddam did), and so on and so forth, but it's not finished as sourcing everything is tiresome. But, basically the idea things got terrible worse after we invaded is, more or less not true, everything in Iraq was falling apart long before we invaded. As for WMD's, Saddam had already wiped out a city of about 40,000 with them, mostly using chemical weapons, but they also had 100,000 pounds of uranium, 9000 liters of anthrax, weaponized west nile virus among other things, and various other biological and chemical weapons, including Sarin, VX and Botox, which are among the deadliest poisons on earth and surprisingly easy to make. The simply reality is that, he was a signifigant threat and with the country destabilizing, there was a real fear these weapons would end up on the open market, such as in the hands of terrorists, of which many of them did. That's not the only reason for the war, but it's one of the main misleading comments the media to this day continues to repeat
