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Originally posted by project_naughty
Yes that's right. It is for the oil.
Why get the oil for free by lifting the sanctions and doing a deal with Saddam when you can spend $100 billion, lose a thousand of your soldiers' lives and risk your election by taking it by force.
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Now US have men In the country able to controll the oil to a greater degree. And a USfriendly administration in place once/if they leave. With saddam in power saddam controlled it.
I dont think bush thought he "risked" his election by invading iraq, rather the oposite. He felt he had to do something after 9/11 even though it was kind of misdirected. It's his thing, the fear of terrorists is what got him re-elected and obviously many americans thinks fighting in iraq = killing terrorists out to harm america.