U.S attacked Iraq over rumors of W.M.D's

[Kasz216]

mai said:

Kasz216 said:

badgenome said:
Spoiler alert: we didn't really attack Iraq over WMD.

Of course the real reason we attacked Iraq, or what seems to be the real reason, is so silly nobody believes it.  Afterall, it wasn't oil or other natural resources either, that's all going to the chinese.

 

In reality it was simply.  Bush believed the US Military could be used to install just democracies in countries with dictators... and Iraq was just a good starting point.

Well, in such case he's either an idiot or a scumbag, or both. But I don't believe in good intentions in politics, so he's a scumbag after all, while your reasoning is as silly as "they went for oil". Who needs Iraqi oil in price of military operation of that scale? You simply buy it.

Not srue what your saying here.  The US got literally nothing out of Iraq.

I mean hell, even geopolitically a Democratic Iraq is less useful then Saddam Hussein.

Sure Saddam Hussein hated the US but he also hated everyone else in the area including America's greatest "foils" in the region.

Democratic Iraq is going to be much friendlier with Iran and other such groups.

 

Really though, it just boils down to Neoconservatives believing in the Democracy principle or whatever... that Democracies aren't likely to start wars with each other, and likely to get along.  Silly but hey.