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FORGET Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The real reason the United States invaded Iraq was Saudi Arabia, according to a US intelligence analyst. Dr George Friedman, chairman of the United States private sector intelligence company Stratfor, said the US had settled on WMD as a simple justification for the war and one which it expected the public would readily accept. Dr Friedman, in Australia on a business trip, said the US administration never wanted to explain the complex reasons for invading Iraq, keeping them from both the public and their closest supporters. "That, primarily, was the fact that Saudi...

President Bush Had to Attack Iraq -Wilson C. Lucom President Bush had to attack Iraq to protect you, the American people, from being killed by further terrorist attacks on the United States and to keep the economy from taking a nose dive. The terrorists did not need weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from Iraq to attack the U.S., although Hussein possessed WMD and used WMD on his own people. The terrorists converted your own commercial airliners into weapons of mass destruction. In the U.S. there are 20,000 domestic flights and 250 international airlines flying into the country each day. It...