Enforcing our ceasefire agreement for one.
Preventing a known enemy of the counrty and supporter of terrorism from giving WMDs to terrorists.
Regime change, which had been a policy for Iraq since the Clinton administration.
There were multiple reasons. Hindsight is 20/20 though.
Fighting Islamic terrorists who want to destroy our nation and the nations that fund them are in our interests. Intervening in internal struggls to protect those Islamic terrorists are not.
Saddam (who was Islamic) never wanted to destroy our nation. Most of what he did was saber rattling to try to convince his people he was stronger than he actually was.
OBL however.....................DID want to destroy this nation. Why did Jr. let him run free for over 6 years, yet Obama got him in less than 4?
He didn't....he had people on it continuously. When the Seals got OBL, it was because of the intellegence that the Bush Admin put in place to track him....just happened that they finally cornered him while Obama was in Office. It was the military that found him, not Obama....and it was the military that took him out, not Obama.