What are the real reason why U.S.A. got into Iraq?

[CrONoS]

What are the real reason why U.S.A. got into Iraq?

- Oil
- Free the Iraqi
- GeoStrategy
- Trickle-down (A working capitalist-democracy in Iraq will have a spill over effect)
- Conspiration Theory
- Al-Quaeda and Saddam Hussein


Thanks

[CrONoS]

Sometimes I believe that Bush played the "noble lie" of Leo Strauss; they lied on Iraq, but for a cause that they knew that were good(in their opinion).

[SlowwHand]

Al-Quaeda and Saddam Hussein

[Aeson]

Misguided economic stimulus package. Gotta buy those bombs somewhere. (I jest... but only part of me...)

[MORON]

stupidity

[CrONoS]

Originally posted by MORON
stupidity

Thank you; but what is the rationale?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
Al-Quaeda

Saddam and bin Laden were enemies, and Saddam had ruthlessly repressed Al-Qaeda operations in Iraq. So are you saying we got into Iraq to make sure Al-Qaeda could operate and recruit there? 'Cause if so...Mission Accomplished!

[Wittlich]

I would have to say it is 1 (Oil) and 3 (GeoStrategy).

[CrONoS]

@Rufus

But what about the fact that S. Hussein did wrote words from the Koran on the flag (I don't remember which year)? Sign was indicating to us that S. Hussein was slowly transforming itself as a defender of Islam.

Why would we want a new openly hostile islamic regime in the middle east?

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
Saddam and bin Laden were enemies, and Saddam had ruthlessly repressed Al-Qaeda operations in Iraq.

Twenty days after the bombings, Uday Hussein (son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein) praised Osama Bin Laden as "an Arab and Islamic hero."[5] Later, Richard A. Clarke, a top Clinton administration counterterrorism official, stated that one source reported that bin Laden had met with Iraqi officials who "may have offered him asylum" after the embassy bombings.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_U.S._embassy_bombings

[CrONoS]

Originally posted by Wittlich
I would have to say it is 1 (Oil) and 3 (GeoStrategy).

If Oil was the first or only reason:
Why invading a country for oil? Is there no other way to have oil? (buying company, investing, making business agreement, exchange oil for military equipment, development offshore platform in the north, etc..).

And who will and is controlling the oil field right now?

But if the first reason was GeoStrategic; oil can be an enjoyable benefit.

[CrONoS]

Originally posted by DinoDoc


Twenty days after the bombings, Uday Hussein (son of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein) praised Osama Bin Laden as "an Arab and Islamic hero."[5] Later, Richard A. Clarke, a top Clinton administration counterterrorism official, stated that one source reported that bin Laden had met with Iraqi officials who "may have offered him asylum" after the embassy bombings.[6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_U.S._embassy_bombings

thanks, I wanted to point it out. But I wasn't able to find the quotes.

[Wittlich]

Hense my second choice of Geostrategy....but CrONoS' comment was posted towards Rufus T. Firefly, and he should answer it...

[Wiglaf]

People who say the rationale was "oil" have no idea what the theory even refers to. They are under the impression the whole war was fought to lower gas prices (which it didn't do at all) or make Dick Cheney rich (again, didn't do it). People just get BONERS when they can use one word to seem clever, when in reality they're losers.

Saddam went after Bush's dad (strike one), ignored UN resolutions (strike two), and clearly loved using chemical weapons to kill thousands of people based on 1991 (strike three).

[CrONoS]

Originally posted by Wiglaf

Saddam went after Bush's dad (strike one), ignored UN resolutions (strike two), and clearly loved using chemical weapons to kill thousands of people based on 1991 (strike three).

Is that your own reason or the reason that you think Bush(and his counselor) had into their mind?

I don't want to know your reason why you thought it was a good idea to invade Iraq. But why a coalition was build in order to invade Iraq. I want to know, what's were the real reason why U.S.A. got into Iraq?

To this day I think the obviously false reason about WMD was more a Noble Lie, (à la Leo Strauss). Than the real reason.