SMU Associate Professor of Political Science John Donaldson shared his views on whether Iraq is better off today, a decade after former US President George Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq to topple former dictator Saddam Hussein. While the invasion was meant to free Iraq from the tyrannical regime and rid Iraq from weapons of mass destruction, many are still questioning whether it was a just war and whether the price that had to be paid in lives and blood were worth all the effort. Professor Donaldson said that the active development of weapons of mass destruction was clearly a threat to the US security as well as its allies, and that he could understand that as a justification, but the kinds of evidence that were presented to the United Nations seemed very thin. He said that looking back now, it seemed like it was very much miscalculated.