re: #287 Dark_Falcon

That was one of them. Other reasons were to remove a hostile regime that made frequent trouble for its neighbors, and settle the festering issue of Iraq once and for all. The sanctions regime was failing and Bush decided the only way to resolve the issue was to get rid of Saddam.

D_F, you know I consider you a bud, but this is historical revisionism.

The justification for going in was Sadam’s putative desire to manufacture atomic weapons so he could threaten Israel and the US, either directly or indirectly by supplying those weapons to terrorists. The idea it was some altruistic attempt to remove a bad man and a bad regime came after the invasion and with the failure to find any ability to manufacture nuclear weapons.