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The invasion of Iraq was primarily to cement in world thinking the belief that America will no longer roll over to terrorism. We spent three decades not reacting (or reacting in the most limited of ways) to it and this inaction only emboldened terrorist organizations and allowed them to spread while building support (not only private support but the public support of people like Hussein, Qadafi, Arafat, Bin Laden, et al).
At worst a terrorist organization had to worry about a couple of sub launched missiles zooming towards one of their possible camps. Since 9/11 the aggressive Bush policy has proved to the world that, even in the face of objections from our historical "allies" and the increasing deaths of our soldiers, sailors, and Marines, we will wield our military assets to break those governments and organizations who target us.
All the other "reasons" are political window dressing.
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