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Originally posted by fastpat
Looks like we'll have to agree to disagree about that.
I don't think there was any one motivating factor for the invasion. I think the motivating factors were, in no particular order of importance:
1. Selling oil for euros.
2. he (Saddam) tried to kill my daddy, which is a direct quote from Bush.
3. At the behest of the Trotskyites at the American Enterprise Institute and their spin-off organ Project for The New American Century.
4. For the Likudists in Israel.
5. To establish a beachhead in the mid-east to replace bases that are in jeopardy in Arabia, more important if there needs to be military action against the Arabians (in the minds of the neo-cons).
6. To establish control over what may be the largest oil field in the mid-east, which will provide hegemony over oil demanded by both China and India and other 2nd World nations.
There could be others that need to be on that rather short list, but that's enough.
One that's not on it, and was never a motivator was terrorism. The Bush'ists did not invaded Iraq to stop terrorism against America.
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That is my list as well - perfect, can only be added to.