Reply #18: "No reasoning behind it" - an interesting comment. There were many stated

[coalition_unwilling]

reasons, all of them lies.

I have given a lot of thought to why we really went into Iraq and have settled on 2 possibilities:

1) A la Norman Mailer, we didn't really need Iraq's oil for ourselves, since we import most of our oil from South America, if memory serves. Mailer theorizes we went into Iraq to give us a strategic lever to hold over China and India, who do need oil from the Middle East.

or

2) (This I have not seen anywhere succinctly put, although it's so common sense that I'm sure more than one person thought of it): We went into Iraq so that we'd have bases for an eventual land-based invasion of Iran on two fronts: Afghanistan from the east and Iraq from the west.

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