Why did the US invade Iraq?

[Berzerker]

9) Idealogue Reason: Grand experiment. Right-wing think-tanks like the Cato Institute are hungry for an opportunity to prove that things demanded by their ludicrous ideology actually work. They need a country that will implement flat taxes and privatize everything from water to schools to create an entrepreneurial paradise. A vanquished country -- like post-WW2 Japan or Germany -- is an opportunity to implement such notions. And that's what they have done in Iraq. Verdict: Failure.

You gotta quote from the foreign policy guy at Cato (Ted Galen Carpenter I think) supporting the invasion of Iraq? That I'd like to see...If Bush was using a libertarian approach he would have pulled our troops out completely within days of entering office and avoided 9/11. And globalist critics would argue doing that would lead to some other disaster, like the rise of a new Hitler.

8) Bootlicker Reason: Appeasement. Bin Laden orchestrated the WTC attacks because of the blasphemous presence of US troops in Saudi Arabia. This presence offends his nutty Wahhabi beliefs. The invasion of Iraq could be intended as a bribe to Bin Laden -- it deposes a sworn enemy of his, and it allows US to move its troops out of Saudi Arabia. Verdict: Success.

Christians weren't too happy knowing Muslims had the Holy Land, they even launched a few invasions to get it back. So nuttiness seems to plague both sides in different ways. But a bribe? Thats kinda...nutty.

We wanted to get Saddam even before 9/11, but after 9/11 we had an excuse. And there aint no better place to fight a war on terrorism, Iraq is right in the middle of the region so our troops became a magnet. Thats what politicians in this country meant when they said it was better to fight them over there instead of over here, so we turned Iraq into a battlefield for the war on terror hoping to draw in as many terrorists as possible. You should replace the bootlicker reason to the magnet reason

[SlowwHand]

Anyone should know it's better to fight off our shores. Common sense.

[MRT144]

a new hitler couldnt exsist but in the 3rd world today

[Berzerker]

new Hitler's in the 3rd world exist at the pleasure of the superpowers

[Flip McWho]

and new hitlers in third world countries don't really matter

[Sikander]

Originally posted by Arrian
Perhaps. Bush is big into blind faith.

-Arrian

Really? They only had the one album, and while it was good it was kind of a let down considering the talent and everything. Or are you saying he's a perv who just whacks off to the album cover?

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by St Leo
I picked it up here and there. I mean, the US is setting up permanent military bases in Iraq. It already has bases scattered across Central Asia -- in Uzbekistan and the like. They are not being set up for the sheer exhilaration of base building, and perhaps a military stronghold in the region is what the whole thing has been about.

Give the man a ding dong.

Give him two if he can say 'bases not in KSA'.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Arrian
Some actually bought the WMD bs.

Including British experts on Saddam's weapons programs.

[notyoueither]

Originally posted by Ninot
Haliburton running wild, and everything in the propaganda is about Iraqis realising democracy. I just think they chose the worst country if they wanted democracy.

it's the one with the most secular recent past.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by notyoueither
Including British experts on Saddam's weapons programs.

Experts are not infallable.

[notyoueither]

No **** they are fallible. I think the result confirms that, but to continue to say 'WMD bs' is far from being honest.

[DaShi]

Originally posted by Urban Ranger


Experts are not infallable.

Like Martin Gardner?

[Impaler[WrG]]

I vote simple "you go after my daddy I go after you", 9/11 is the excuse but Bush had been planing it before he even became President.

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by notyoueither
No **** they are fallible. I think the result confirms that, but to continue to say 'WMD bs' is far from being honest.

Though some of us called that BS, way back when the Bushies where still trying to deceive the word at large.

Yeah, sure, there were all these "undisclosed sources" and Iraqi defectors, there were even those who asserted that the BCN weapons were smuggled out of the country when Iraq fell.

Amusing reading.

Oh, and "secret documents," too. The Telegraph seemed to have got a real large cache of that.

[SlowwHand]

What a bunch of crank yankers.


Can't understand 1441, genocide, any of it. Ok. Try this.

http://www.krysstal.com/democracy_whyusa_iraq.html