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My God, ace... You've drunk the kool-aid so thoroughly on this one, I despair of us ever having a rational conversation about it.
Suffice to say, "we" didn't invade Iraq to remove Hussein from power--that rationale was invented after the fact, when there were no WMDs to be found. And Iraq had nothing to do with this alleged "enemy who had declared war on the US". Those people were also Iraq's enemies. And Iraq was only part of the "broader war on terror" if you can invent WMDs and yellow cake uranium purchases, which didn't exist OR happen.
So, if it's not those three things, why DO you think we initially went to war?
I don't think we'll ever know the REAL reason that the Administration decided to gallop us into this war, but I know what I suspect their reasons were. I suspect their reasons had to do with enriching their military-industrial cronies, their ability to use war to railroad through agenda items at the expense of civil liberties, and their "legacy" as a war presidency.
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