The United Nation's Securities Council reported that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and former weapons inspector Scott Ritter said "Iraq is not a sponsor of the kind of terror perpetrated against the United States on September 11 and in fact is active in suppressing the sort of fundamental extremism that characterizes those who attacked the United States on that horrible day"(Unnamed author). Even with this evidence form an international committee Mr. Bush went with the intelligence gathered by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). CIA Director George Tenet had two sources that he believed were credible. "One source "with direct access to Saddam" told a U.S. ally that Iraq was aggressively seeking to develop a nuclear weapon, had chemical weapons and was "dabbling" with biological agents". Basically we went to Iraq just for the fun of it, and perpetuated the stereotype that all Middle-Eastern nations want to see the demise of the United States. North Korea openly said that they were developing biological weapons, but why didn't we do anything about that? I guess President Bush's wonderful reason for going to war was that Saddam Hussein was a bad man. .
The next part of this system that had a major flaw, was that President Bush bypassed the entire checks and balance system, with this "war on terror". The reason we have this system is to prevent things like this from happening. Let's take for instance a country that has a king, that king can single handedly send his country to war, but the American President can't. Alexander Hamilton said "The president's power was "in substance much inferior to the power of a king" (Bandow). Congress told Mr. Bush after September 11, 2001 that he may retaliate against any "nations, organizations, or persons"(Bandow) that may have taken part in the heinous act. They did not tell him to go out as a renegade and wage war against nations that didn't have anything to do with that act.