You’ve been reading too much of Mearsheimer’s Israel lobby nonsense. Israel attacked Saddam Hussein’s nuclear facilities 20 years ago, without even notifying the US. They do whatever they want, they have an extremly powerful military. Saddam may have been funding bombers, but so is every other Arab country in the world. By the way, Israel knew most of the funding for Hamas and Hizbolla is from Iran, not Iraq.
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39051
Also, why do we need Iraq’s oil? Bush basically french kisses King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia when he visits. If our oil supply was in danger, we should have started drilling in ANWR.
Of course we should have started drilling in ANWR, but the Traitorcrats, and a few RINO's have made it illegal!
Never heard of it. I think you're misunderstanding me...I wasn't being critical; I think that among other reasons, eliminating his support of terrorism in the region was a perfectly legitimate casus belli.
The two are somewhat related anyway, at least to the extent that they occur in the same region.
And while it's true that other countries in the region have and continue to facilitate anti-Israel terrorism, Saddam was fairly brazen about it by comparison.
And, yes, Israel could have chosen to strike, but I think we were discouraging them from doing so, because it would complicate the peace negotiation efforts we were involved in.
As far as Iraqi oil goes, it was only important in an indirect way, since it was largely a French concern, as far as I know.