Neocon foreign policy: there's never a country that wouldn't benefit from an American invasion.
For the record, I remember, in 2004 I was in a waiting room with VASTLY out of date magazines. There was a news magazine that was talking about US planning an invasion of Iraq. The magazine was dated April, 2001. If not for 9/11, he probably would have pushed for the Iraq war a lot sooner, but it would have been harder to convince us to do it.
As for why, oil may have had some to do with it. WMD's were just an excuse, in the wake of 9/11 to scare the public into supporting the war. But, ultimately? This was imperialism and American exceptionalism. They were firmly convinced that America is always right and, therefore, any country that isn't America would benefit from being more like America and if we have to force them to be more like us, well, they'll thank us for it anyway because we're so great and grand and wonderful, who wouldn't want to be like us?
For the record, I remember, in 2004 I was in a waiting room with VASTLY out of date magazines. There was a news magazine that was talking about US planning an invasion of Iraq. The magazine was dated April, 2001. If not for 9/11, he probably would have pushed for the Iraq war a lot sooner, but it would have been harder to convince us to do it.
As for why, oil may have had some to do with it. WMD's were just an excuse, in the wake of 9/11 to scare the public into supporting the war. But, ultimately? This was imperialism and American exceptionalism. They were firmly convinced that America is always right and, therefore, any country that isn't America would benefit from being more like America and if we have to force them to be more like us, well, they'll thank us for it anyway because we're so great and grand and wonderful, who wouldn't want to be like us?
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"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
"If you cling to something as the absolute truth and you are caught in it, when the truth comes in person to knock on your door you will refuse to let it in." ~ Siddhartha Gautama
