Why did we go to war with Iraq?

[Nimble_Idea]

so the chimp could play dress-up.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101040607-644112,00.html

[mopaul]

1. to hasten the rapture

and speed up armageddon

[RedSock]

2. absolutely MUST reading

"Uncovering the Rationales for the War on Iraq:
The Words of the Bush Administration, Congress, and the Media
from September 12, 2001 to October 11, 2002"

Devon M. Largio
Senior Honors Thesis
Department of Political Science
University of Illinois

http://www.pol.uiuc.edu/news/largio.htm

[wtmusic]

3. 3 main reasons

1) Secure American energy future (with profit motive playing a large part)
2) Avenge Saddam's assassination attempt on Bush 41
3) Provide economic stimulus to flagging, post-Cold-War military-industrial complex

Nothing whatsoever to do with helping the Iraqi people or WMDs.

Nothing.

[Poiuyt]

8. One bigger reason

He wanted to show up his father.

[Deja Q]

4. A personal vendetta and to help out his corporate buddies.

Personally, I find Clinton's DNA far less offensive in that study that Saddam's gun, oddly...

[davsand]

5. Quick! Which version are we on now?

You may enjoy this article:

Why We Went In: Version 10.0

by P.J. Crowley and Robert O. Boorstin
March 19, 2004

In the year since the invasion of Iraq, the Bush administration has repeatedly shifted its justification for going to war and constantly changed its story on intelligence, the United Nations, reconstruction, political transition and the cost to the American taxpayer. More than anything, the administration's war in Iraq resembles a software program that, at first, works brilliantly, but then catches the user in a cycle of "fatal error" messages.

Here then, in Silicon Valley terms, is a review of the Bush administration's year in Iraq...


Saddam Hussein poses an 'imminent threat' to the American people.

Version 1.0 - Saddam Hussein is an imminent threat
Version 1.01 - Saddam Hussein is a gathering threat
Version 1.02 - Saddam Hussein poses a real and dangerous threat
Version 1.1 - The smoking gun will be a mushroom cloud
Version 1.2 - We can't afford to wait
Version 1.3 - We never said imminent
Version 1.3.1 - OK, maybe we did say it once or twice
Version 1.4 - We should have been more precise

It's funny as heck, see entire article at:

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=38989&printmode=1

[tabasco]

6. Your answer is correct !

1. The war would allow Bush to have a decisive military victory over a weak opponent, scoring political points for Bush ("play dress up").
2. The war would allow the corrupt administration to hand out lucrative contracts to their friends and campaign donors.
3. The US could steal Iraqi oil, to pay the Bush-supporting corporations even more.
4. The war was the first step in the insane neocon agenda for the US to occupy and dominate the Middle East. Iraq > Syria > Iran.
5. The military industries in the US would make huge profits from a war with no definite end.

These are the main reasons. All the propaganda about liberating the Iraqis and WMDs were just lies. Nobody in the corrupt administration ever believed that shit for a minute.

[JPJones]

7. The neo-con thesis that the road to Jerusalem

goes through Baghdad (a quote from Gen. Zinni, who of course may be quoting someone else).

This theory, which is suitable only for a shitty disertation topic, is being tested at the cost of thousands of lives. Thank you Leo Strauss and Alan Bloom for training a generation of idiots.