Wtf kind of Russian bot defends liberal democracy? The Russian bots all sound exactly like you, ahistoric anti-west trolls. You're literally glazing Saddam Hussein just to be able to hate America more.
"They benefitted briefly" look how far you've fallen. I thought it was all about the money and oil? All that rhetoric smashed against the rocks of reality. A worthless analysis abandoned at the slightest pushback.
I guess that brief benefit was the reason they spent years and trillions of dollars in the region distributing aid, building civilian infrustrature, and propping up the Iraqi government, all so they're adversaries in the region could benefit more than them. How selfless.
I absolutely got my facts right, Clinton didn't plan to invade the country but he sure as hell made it his policy to make Saddam an enemy and work towards regime change in Iraq.