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Originally Posted by Mojo_PeiPei
Diesel if everyone is asserting that the administration lied, or at best was dead wrong about the WMD's, why would they release a list containing said objectives when they were trying to save face?
I think everyone here agree's we went to war on the premises (in good faith or bad) of 1 & 2, 4-5, 6 being implied; not smart to mention oil as a premise of war; and 7-8. So really the only sham objective would be number 3, but at the sametime I think that was one of the original objectives, somehow the American populace thought Saddam was directly involved in 9-11.
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Everyone here most certainly does not agree. We went on the premise of WMD. Period. Sure, getting rid of Saddam was mentioned as a nice little bonus, but the reason we were going to war was because the Big Bad Arabs were gonna throw chemical weapons at us. They never explained how Iraq would pull this off, considering they couldn't hit anything they aimed at with their shortrange scuds, so how would they manage to make a decently accurate ICBM in order to launch a chemical missile at the US mainland, but ya know, details details.
All those other reasons have been fabricated after the fact to try and obscure the fact that the original reason that was pitched to the American public was a bald faced lie.