Yes..some say that don't they. It is not true but they say it. Nothing is getting "brushed under the carpet", either, except perhaps the nasty little secret of how much the Sunni hate the Shia.
What nasty little secret?. Are you crazy? - the long Iran/Iraq war was all about Shia vs. Sunni. I think it lasted 10+ years. The media was constantly reporting Shia vs. Sunni. Maybe you never picked up the news then?. The whole world knows they don't like each other.
That was not an "excuse", it was a "reason". That is a big difference. And the only "lie" was when Hussein pretended to retain his WMD's. I suspect the next tinpot won't make that mistake, will he.
The word "lie" means the willful and knowing telling of a falsehood. Can we get that straight please? I know it seems pedantic but words really do mean things.
No - if it was a reason it would have been based on hard facts i.e. proof of WMD. There were not any. There were not any to begin with.
Is the West "free of evils"? Of course not. Do most of the Muslim posters on this forum live in the West? Curiously, they do.