Saddam did not harbor Al-Quaeda. He hated them because they were trying to destabilize his rule. The Taliban also offered to turn over Osama right at the beginning of the Afghanistan War. Bush said no. The only “WMDs” that could be claimed to be in Iraq were the chemical weapons that the US gave to Saddam during the Iraq-Iran war in the 80s. Most of the 9-11 terrorists were from Saudi Arabia yet because they supply oil to the US, the US turns a blind eye.

There was zero reason for the US to go to the other side of the planet to invade two countries. I’m against the Russian invasion but they have a better rational for self defense to aid Russian ethnics in the Donbas region due to Kyiv launching an invasion there in 2014 when they didn’t support a coup/revolution of the democratically elected leadership then the US had to invade two sovereign nations.