> Theodora wrote:

> There has to be a political or economic reason? Says who? Humans make the decision. One human in particular decided to push for a war. One human who had a grudge against Saddam and who figured lying, cheating and stealing were an ok way to obtain what he so selfishly wanted.

He didn't need an economic or political reason to take revenge.

I mean hell, after victorious strike against the two tower, the U.S. populace was so frightened, they probably would have bleated their assent for a war against Britain. All it takes is one person with a grudge to pick a target and frighten the sheep into going along with an attack.>>

Hehe I said "social" too . A Turkic Sultan declared war on the Mongols because they insulted him, lol. But humans make decisions because they have motivations for doing them, and morality never has anything to do with political actions. However, it is used as a face to justify actions that may otherwise have political or economic motivations.

Yah that's one possible reason, I suppose. However I'm not entirely convinced by it yet. In my view, it seems like a very risky action at Bush's perspective, if that is the only gain.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/07/the_550_tons_of_yellowcake.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200499,00.html

Tell me how do you "lose" 500 WMD's????? Which other nation on Earth has even allowed 100 wmd's to not be found?

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=15918

Note the anything above 0% is toxic

http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/SV/Invo/factsheet.html

That report shows how much Uranium can be made from Yellow Cake...

This url will sum up the finds, and the 'reassignment of titles' of chemical weapons.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/04/pesticides_precursors_and_petu_1.html

Btw why do you need enough insect pesticides to eliminate all bugs on earth in a nation the size of Iraq, and ten times over?

I think because the US as a superpower has become unimportant for a huge part of the world after the UDSSR disappeared.
US needs to fight war against 2nd or 3rd class countries to show the world.. here we are.. and we have the biggest balls.
US needs to stay peresent.. needs other countries to think they are so supperior.
So the easiest thing is to invade a country which practically and theoretically stands no chance.

I don't know how to feel ... Happy that there is another republican here, or sad that its Einstien ... hehe, just kidding

But you ask in your post Why the US went to war with Iraq and then ask people to curtail thier answers based on your own beliefs ... Who knows what history will say is the reason, but I myself belive that its because we had given Saddam all those fun toys, and when the relationship desolved, we wanted it back, the reason we didn't find anything is not because the inspectors are stupid, but because  A) they had to play to Saddam's fiddle while he danced around UN sactions and B) He used most of it ... on his own people to boot (Real nice fella, the world is really going to miss him).  If it was truely oil the US was after, don't you think they would have gone after Saudi Arabia?  After all, Osama is from there, granted, he's exiled from there, but if you think we would have falisified reports of WMDs, do you think we could and would have dummied up some info about the Saudis sheltering Bin Ladin?  The US imports oil from Venzuela and Mexico, and we're not ready to invade there.

I say again, who knows what history will say about this in a hundred years.  Children here are taught that the US Civil War was fought over slavery, and while that was a contributing factor, it was more about ecomony and big government ... Lincoln even said if he could have not freed the slaves and avoided the war he would have ... hindsight isn't always 20/20

... did you really just say that?

I'm going to chalk that up to "I just say stuff to get a rise out of people and if I can't be the universally liked and respected, I might aswell be universally hated and thought an idiot" syndrom.  Its a defence mechanism, you see, you're disliked and made fun of, but on your own terms, so its a choice that you made as opposed to dealing with whatever faults you may have ... in this case, Mom was right, just be yourself and the people that like an respect you will like and respect you for the right reasons.

I doubt it was for oil because gas prices are still high. Even now there is talk of drilling for oil again, hoping that would help lower prices.

It was clearly about control of oil reserves.

- Specifically not allowing large amounts of the worlds reserves to remain in the hands of a government deemed not co-operative to American interests.

The "IRAQ oil law " passed in 2007 takes control of oil from being nationalised under iraqi government contol and passes control to foreign, e.g US companies.

Even Alan Greenspan ex chairman of the Federal reserve has publicly admitted what those in the establishment have known from the start:

Invade Iraq, cause chaos, reduce the threat of terrorist attacks on the US by keeping them occupied across the ocean.

It was about Iraq supporting terrorism. No wait, it was about WMD's. Nope hang on, Saddam is a dictator. Freedom and democracy. What? Stupid transmitter stopped working.

Hmm why don't I open a thread about why is France a country.  And don't give me that bit about the French wanting a nation-state!

DON"T OPEN SUCH A THREAD!  It's an analogy.

> Theodora wrote:

> There has to be a political or economic reason? Says who? Humans make the decision. One human in particular decided to push for a war. One human who had a grudge against Saddam and who figured lying, cheating and stealing were an ok way to obtain what he so selfishly wanted.

He didn't need an economic or political reason to take revenge.

I mean hell, after victorious strike against the two tower, the U.S. populace was so frightened, they probably would have bleated their assent for a war against Britain. All it takes is one person with a grudge to pick a target and frighten the sheep into going along with an attack.

so u are the sheep