[JohnGalt]

The internationalists all agreed that Iraq was bad. Clinton needed a convenient country to bomb to distract the citizenry from his troubles at home so there was general agreement from professional Washington out to the Council on Foreign Relations that Saddam was a legit target for regime change/ nation building.

Because the Right, Bush's base, does not support nation building, the national security angle was stressed in order to gather support from Bush rightwing base.

But to believe there were no geopolitical goals is naive beyond 8th grade.

BTW, since Wolfowitz declaration that WMDs was the general reason, and there were no WMDs, why are we still there?

[hopespringseternal]

Poor Saddam. He was framed! Too bad we are finding this out now, before he is executed. If we had executed him first, being so innocent, maybe he could have been elevated to sainthood.