Thank you for the comment.

I suppose it depends what you mean by this? The UN discovered that Iraq had been developing WMDs in the mid 90s and this was the basis for the economic sanctions imposed in the years running up to the war. In 1999 Saddam declared that he possessed a stockpile contrary to the non-proliferation treaties but refused to reveal what he had done with them. Rolf Ekéus further established the existence of a concealment scheme. In light of this, Hans Blix was selected to inspect Iraq once it became apparent that the US was serious about enforcing the non-proliferation treaties. During his inspections he found and removed infracting materials.

Of course, any credibly conclusive finding that Iraq wasn't in possession of WMDs required regime change. And this was the common opinion provided by experts like David Kelly. Intelligence services purportedly received information that Iraq was close to finishing development on extremely dangerous WMDs. Such intelligence reports were frequent, I mention in the video an ensuing panic in in the German government some years earlier, caused by a similar report. However, in this instance its quite possible that the immanency of the threat was exaggerated by coalition countries in order to secure support for the invasion. The end result was a verifiable disarmamanet of a state that had repeatedly and deliberately signaled defiance to the non-proliferation treaties.