[Daishiman]

No, it was a bullshit war fabricated and developed. You can look up the PNAC's detailed history where they were just aching for excuses to go to war with Iraq and other Middle Eastern states.

The disputability of the intentions of the war is something only American citizens question. Everyone else knew from the start that there was nothing good in it.

Just for a start, Google the matter for a few minutes and you'll see that the supposed evidence for the war was completely fabricated, and the Security Council received outright lies from the American representatives.

[barrkel]

I don't really see how you're contradicting what I wrote. The "look out, he's got a gun" excuse was largely a BS attempt to sell the war to the public, but the philosophical idea - the long-run reason for wanting to go to war in the middle east for a long time - has much of its roots in this domino theory.

I think they really did expect to find a few fragments of evidence that would back up the "he's got a gun" excuse. I think they were genuinely surprised Saddam hadn't kept something going in private. But I don't think it was the strategic reason for wanting to go to war; an unrealistic and naive (but profitable) ideology was.

[Daishiman]

> But I don't think it was the strategic reason for wanting to go to war; an unrealistic and naive (but profitable) ideology was.

The ideology of the neoconservatives who fabricated the war was plain and simple: America must the be the world's superpower at all costs. This implies backup governments that are friendly to American interests, regardless of their political affiliations. There is nothing naive about that, it is simply perverse and disregards all concerns for human life or regional peace.