Here's some help:
US State Department Press Release:
Life Under Saddam Hussein: Past Repression and Atrocities by Saddam Hussein's Regime
122 political prisoners were executed at Abu Ghraib prison in February/March 2000;
23 political prisoners were executed at Abu Ghraib prison in October 2001; and
At least 130 Iraqi women were beheaded between June 2000 and April 2001.
Nasty no doubt, but notice the numbers for 2002-March 2003? That's right none exist. Because Iraq was peaceful at the time the US invaded. Hussein was actually granting amnesty and freeing people from prisons in 2002-2003.
Meanwhile from 2002 until March 2003, while our news was going on and on about Hussein's atrocities during the 1980's and 90's, tens of thousands of people were dying each month in a genocidal civil war in the DRC.
So are you seriously telling me that the US government was concerned about the welfare of Iraqis? If that were true, lifting the economic embargo imposed on Iraq would have had an immediate benefit and cost no lives.
BTW, I was against Hussein since he came to power. I would have supported a humanitarian intervention in Iraq in 1991 during the popular uprisings and or even in the late 1980's when Iraq used CWs against Iran (with US support including satellite intel) or later when they used CWs against thousands of Kurds.
The idea that humanitarian concerns were a justification for the 2003 war is ridiculous.