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1) End the regime of Saddam Hussein.
2) Eliminate Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.
3) Capture or drive out terrorists.
4) Collect intelligence on terrorist networks.
5) Collect intelligence on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction activity.
6) Secure Iraq’s oil fields.
7) Deliver humanitarian relief and end sanctions.
8) Help Iraq achieve representative self-government and insure its territorial integrity.
this list was compiled from the secretary of defense's official statement on 21 March 2003
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Wait, wait... Irate... You're saying that you accept this as the "official" objective list? This was released in March 2003, well after the war was started, and while Rumsfeld & associates were shitting a brick about the possibility of there being no WMDs. Half of that list was created in retrospect to try to save face. I dare you to find any type of official objective list from before the war that contains any more than 4 of those objectives.