Originally Posted by martinguerre

what...like the oil didn't matter? we just wanted to help isreal out a bit? they've done fine against invasions before. iraq's army was gutted....thus our fast advance. i really don't buy the claim that this was isreal's making. they didn't much care for saddam...that's for sure. but they actually knew what to do when he got WMD aspirations. Bomb the site where they were going to be made, and leave things at that.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d...00/3014623.stm