[Mr. K]

We had such weak arguments... the killing and torturing of his own people, and sponsoring terrorism was NOT enough to kill that b@stard...

Geez liberals are pathetic...

[Onelifetogive]

Why Did the Bush Administration Really Decide to Invade Iraq?

Because it would cause the Democrats to make a$$es out of themselves!

[RasterMaster]

Reason #1: The U.N.'s incapability to enforce it's own resolutions since Bush 41.

[Little Ray]

To make a example of an established ME state as to what will happen if they continue to pursue WMD and state terrorism.

Worked, too.

[boris]

The justification is 9/11/2001. Personally I would not have "done" Iraq first. Clearly, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and N. Korea should have been "done" first.

What Iraq shows is the folly of 'boots on the ground'. There really is a potential quagmire.

So nuke 'em, Dano, and move on to the next target.

--Boris

[Semper Paratus]

I don't know, why did Clinton bomb Sudan?

[IncPen]

The US (and if you care about them, the UN) told Iraq in no uncertain terms: disarm, or prove that you have, or we're coming in.

They didn't, so we did.

End of story.

Why is that so hard to understand?

[kevao]

I thought the invasion was all about yellowcake. Not that that's fallen through, I feel very misled. /sarcasm

[sergeantdave]

We invaded Iraq so Disneyland Middle-east could be built, complete with the Terrorist Bomber roller coaster attraction, to recruit cute Iraqi babes for colleges here and get them on the cheer leading team and to assure that we have enough sand to pack up the butts of French surrender monkeys.

Twits.

[VRWC_minion]

This article sounds like good reasons to me.

[beckett]

The sky is falling --- The sky is falling!!!

Guys like this just won't take success for an answer.

[kimosabe31]

bump

[LS]

Sorry, dude. "Real" conservatives DID support this. The fact is these states were, and many remain, threats to this country through their support of terrorism, with or without WMDs. (They have them, don't worry).

Real conservatives don't hide behind the "isolationist" blatherings of Buchanan, but understand that an active foreign policy of taking out your enemies is preferable to 9/11.

[gcruse]

First and foremost was the President's desire to avenge his father's failure to achieve a lasting victory over Saddam and more particularly his desire to get back at Saddam for an alleged assassination attempt against former President Bush Sr. in 1993.

That's pretty much the case.   A tie to 9/11 was conjured  up to paper this over.

[wildbill]

Look at it as a strategic military and geo-political decision. By taking Iraq you cut the Mulim crescent from N. Africa to S.E. Asia in two.

Co-incidentally, you demonstrate your military capability in the Arab world by conclusively beating the largest Muslim military regime twice in ten years with hardly any losses.

[justshutupandtakeit]

This is a pathetic load of lies. Long but still crap. Bush did not invade Iraq for ANY personal reasons. The article's statement to that effect is only one of the lies it attempts to spread.

Another howler "Iran is a democracy." Please, no more, I am laughing too hard.

[Shermy]

Just another ahistorical rant forgetting that we, and the UK, have been bombing Saddam since 1991, and that we were engaged there.

[Catalonia]

I only got this far:

First and foremost was the President's desire to avenge his father's failure ...

Any serious discussion of our motivations for going into Iraq that begins with the ridiculous assertion that this was the PRIMARY reason for invading is a harbinger of bias. Or perhaps just the workings of a politically adolescent mind. Powerful men such as Bush II seldom have that kind of love of their fathers. Bush II is concerned with his own successes/failures, not those of his father. Only a teen-ager would believe such moronic assertions.

[Frances_Marion]

"In fact, Iran is a democracy today"

In fact, with this sentence, this article destroyed any chance of me reading further. Anyone who claims as "fact" that the Iranian Thugocracy is a democracy doesn't deserve your time.

[michigander]

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