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On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:09:30 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:13:11 -0700, "nom=de=plume"
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Bush's/Cheney's interest was in cheap oil.

"Cheap oil" was leaving the status quo. Saddam would have pumped the
desert dry to advance his power and sold it on the world market.
If you want to say there was a revenge factor for the attempt on GHWBs
life I would agree. If you wanted to say there was an "unfinished
business" aspect there I would agree but the worst thing we could do
for oil prices was having a war.


We went to war with Iraq because the "neo-cons" convinced Bush that it was
in America's best interests to deal with Iraq as a first step toward
dominating the oil-producing nations in the Middle East and eventually the
world.

We went to war with Iraq to avoid a Iraq, Israeli war. We are probably
going to be in a war with Iran for the same reason.

Untrue. We went to war so that the neocons would get a chance to remake the
middle-east in their own image. It was a stated policy. Look it up.

I'd say that we need to give diplomacy a chance to work. We're in no
position to attack Iran (unless you're channeling McCain).