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Obviously wars are started for a variety of reasons - granted, religion being among the biggest motivations.
Greed, power, oil...misguided liberation.
Sometimes politicians start wars thinking it'll help kickstart their domestic economy - or to increase their own treasure chest (*cough* - Haliburton - *cough*).
I firmly believe the general public aren't usually privvy to the genuine reasons war is started by one faction or another. The real motivators are tucked behind closed doors and meet in secret 'societies'.
We're spoon-fed the diversionary reasons through media manipulation to misdirect and make us think the war is somehow justified.
GWB woke up one morning and thanked Gawd some religious fanatics brought down the WTC so he could justify marching in to Iraq and:
a) take out the sonofabitch that "tried to kill my Daddy".
b) make Haliburton (and affiliated cronies) an even richer corporation.
c) explore the possibilities of controling a greater supply of middleast oil reserves.
And of course, GWB spun it to the media he was "liberating Iraq from a fanatical tyrant with 'weapons of mass destruction' - galore."
Trouble is...there was no WMDs to be found - and people began questioning why he chose to "liberate" Iraq when there were far worse oppressed countries that badly needed democratic liberation.
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