Bush chose this war and will choose another

Bush is a liar and I believe that one reason we attacked Iraq was to further the goals of a handful of greedy, deceitful people.

The whole thing began with this lie:

Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. — Address to the Nation, March 17, 2003

Then this lie:

Bush administration officials exaggerated the threats from Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and failed to uncover any links between President Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, a private nonpartisan research organization concluded in a report released yesterday [2004-01-08].

George Dubya Bush has now done what no other American president has ever done before: invaded another nation without any direct provocation.

I believe that the main reasons for the US invasion of Iraq were to gain control of Iraq's oilfields, to establish military bases in Iraq from which to dominate the Middle East and eventually (by controlling oil supply) to establish control over all countries dependent on oil, and to remove the threat to Israel posed by Iraq.
I also believe that Saddam Hussein was targeted because of an old grudge held by the Bush family and because he knew too much. He paid for this with his life.
He was a man guilty of crimes against humanity and so he should be held accountable for that, but, for many years Saddam was our ally.
Under the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George Bush (Senior), we built Saddam up and supported him because he was fighting against our enemies in Iran.
We are the ones who supplied the military resources for his vaunted "Republican Guard" which was so highly feared until they proved to be so impotent in the Gulf War of 1991.
Saddam Hussein, Iraq or the Baath party had NEVER made any direct threat to U.S. interests. Saddam was no Al Qaeda/Taliban religious extremist. He was no suicide bomber. He enjoyed a nice quality of life and wanted to maintain (or expand) his power as long as he could. He knew that this time, testosterone-intoxicated Dubya wouldn't stop until he was gone (no matter how many American or Iraqi lives would have to be expended), trying to prove that Daddy wasn't really a wimp after all, as well as distracting us from his other domestic policy failures and the failure to apprehend Osama-been-forgotten.
As far as Bin Laden goes, he denies any involvement in the September 11th attacks.
I don't know if this is true or not because there is so much propaganda and bullshit around this issue that I can't begin to wade through it. However, fifteen of the nineteen hijackers were from Saudi Arabia. They were Sunni Muslims from the Wahabi sect.
The CIA has confirmed that they have no connection with Saddam Hussein whatsoever; in fact, Osama been forgotten, their leader, has denounced Saddam Hussein and tried to have him assassinated because, as a Moslem, he is too secular and thus an "infidel."
The Bush administration has cleverly and deceptively parlayed a rightful response to the invasions of 9/11, when we were invaded, into a justification for invading another country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and has never posed a threat to the United States.
If anything this war has strengthened Al Qaeda in fact, the group that launched the most devastating terror attack on the United States has been able to rebuild despite nearly six years of bombings, war and other tactics aimed at crippling it.
Futhermore, I believe that we will attack Iran before Bush leaves Office because immediate risks and costs of preemptive military action against Iran are, in the final analysis, less formidable than the risks and costs of tolerating Iranian nuclear possession --- and the personal and national humiliation that would result from passive acceptance of that outcome.

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