"DSK" wrote in message
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... Now, you're suggesting that if he were asked for the real reason
during a press conference, he might come right out and say "Oil. Period".


NOYB wrote:
But it's not "oil. Period". It's oil...and a whole list of other
reasons. But oil is the biggie.


If that's the case, then why all the smokescreen about using Iraq as a
strategic base, keeping terrorists at arm's length, and of course WMDs?

Because those things are all true...and a lot easier for the average
American to understand.

Wolfowitz admitted as much when he said that there were several reasons we
went to war with Iraq, but the administration "chose the one area issue
everyone could agree on" (ie--WMD).



We both know the reason, I'm just curious as to whether or not you can
admit it publicly.

Admit "what" publicly? That there were several reasons for going to war?

Was Pearl Harbor the only reason we went to war with Japan *and* Germany?
No. But it was the catalyst mixed in with a bunch of other ingredients.