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Branko2166 on 29 November 2011
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Kasz216 said:

I would argue Iraq wasn't fought over vendetta's but instead, blind optimism.

The whole "Mission Accomplished" thing makes me think Bush really does make me think it really was that easy, that it'd take maybe a year to fix iraq after kicking out Saddam. So ironically I think it really was a case of "Fighting for freedom." Universal freedom... and that he'd start a wave where the US just goes into a weak dictatorship, knocks them over, and installs in a democracy.

Actually, Bush predicted that the Iraq war would create a movement just like the arab spring... not that I think the arab spring happened because of Iraq, but it's kinda funny when you consider it.

 

"Iraqi democracy will succeed," he said. "And that success will send forth the news, from Damascus to Tehran, that freedom can be the future of every nation. The establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a watershed event in the global democratic revolution."


Vietnam i'd argue was also a fight for freedom but individual united states freedom, it gets a little overlooked now but back then the US had something they considered the "Domino theory".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_theory

Spreading communism was seen as a threat to our freedom.

The fact that you seem to believe that the Iraq war was fought for anything other than the dominion of a strategic country and its vast natural resources is troubling. Most people I know that follow international politics as well as myself predicted that Iraq will be a disaster not to mention many analysts.

There are many things that America itself has stated which discredit your theory. Unless I am mistaken the first reason for invading Iraq was because they supposedly had weapons of mass destruction. Once that was deemed to be false we were told that Saddam may have had links with terrorists and then finally it came down to spreading freedom and democracy.

Sadly all of those reasons are false otherwise if the USA was truly hell bent on spreading freedom they could have started with the house of Saud and Bahrain or a number of other dictatorships which are allied to the US but that's a story for another time.