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Originally posted by tabs
If the Bushists or the Dems had ever read a History book they would have realized that Iraq was a Hornets nest. However at the time the illerates that run our government had no idea it would turn out to be so troublemsome. We were assured by policy experts such as Paul Wolfowitz that the US would be greeted as Liberators, much as the French greeted the US after WW2 and that in the sprit of democracy the Iraqies would all join together and form a US style or at least European style Democracy and we would all live happily ever after.
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I agree, that's why Bush did it. It had nothing to do with Saddam messing with our oil supply, or Saddam no longer being on the reservation (he firmly was).
In addition to what you posted above, I believe the following lead Bush to it:
1) It was going to be his defining moment, which he felt he lacked. He never had a "cause." The closest he came to one was tax cutting, but that's not very sexy. This was going to be his legacy (unforunately for him, he got that wish).
2) He wanted to show up Daddy. He's always had an inferiority complex to Daddy (for good reason). Daddy wasn't man enough to get the job done in '91, Jr. was going to show him, and show him good.
In the end, GWB was a small, incompetent man, the empty suit that many portrayed him as. He probably would have bumbled through 2 terms ok, because this is a big ship with a lot of checks and balances.
But 9/11 put him in a position to blow it big time, and he seized on that opportunity to make the biggest presidential mistake of our lifetime.