It almost certainly was done for political purposes. But this has undesirable side effects. Or maybe desirable side effects if you wanted to damage Shrillary. Like Obama.
Is Blumenthal part of the U.N. NWO cabal seeking to remove all dictators in the middle east (Saddam, Ghaddafi, Mubarak, Assad) for replacement with Islamo-Fascist governments simpatico with the Democrat party?
Pres. Bush got duped into removing Saddam on behalf of the Islamo-Fascist cabal! Bogus intelligence, ohhh well.. Who was REALLY behind that intelligence?