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Originally Posted by Honus
The more books we get out of the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld crowd, the more strongly I believe that they invaded for exactly that reason. Watch Rumsfeld pitching his book on the talk shows. It is painfully obvious that almost nothing he says is true. If Iraq is anything approaching prosperous and friendly twenty years from now, history might start treating Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld pretty well, despite all their baloney. Their stories are so obviously false, historians will start to ignore them and will focus instead on the long-term strategic advantages we might get from the invasion. Who knows.
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the base idea was actually pre wubbya, a cold war issue in order to have a country from which to defend the ME from Soviet invasions.