Check out this article by Mahdi Obeidi, one of Saddam’s top nuclear scientist.

Noteworthy;

“Was Iraq a potential threat to the United States and the world? Threat is always a matter of perception, but our nuclear program could have been reinstituted at the snap of Saddam Hussein's fingers. The sanctions and the lucrative oil-for-food program had served as powerful deterrents, but world events - like Iran's current efforts to step up its nuclear ambitions - might well have changed the situation.”

Make of it what you want.

That being said, looking back, I think America would have been better off using the Iraq War resources securing our boarders and getting off our Middle East oil dependency.