I have been against American interventionism be it in the guise of humanitarian wars or to stop WMD from the start. In fact Blair tried to sell the Iraq war as a humanitarian war and his arguments swayed leftists in America.

To this day no one is willing to ask why this war was fought.

I think it was a collection of special interests groups from oil to military contractors and every other scallywag lobbyist in between.

People wonder why Dick Cheney who was against going to Baghdad the first time wanted to go so bad into Iraq the second time? I think it was because when he left DC he went to Halliburton/Brown & Root the money there was AMAZING! Sure Dick had money before but not like private sector executive compensation money so I thing that changed him.

Remember, Dick Cheney before he was VP stated he thought cheap oil was bad for the world. So here was a guy upset at cheap oil before Bush came to office and left with sky high oil prices. So maybe that is why Iraq happened?

I know I am going to be challenged on this so I will post and look for the Dick Cheney quote online.

Found it:

Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.

money.cnn.com

So maybe the Iraq invasion was to get oil prices to rise rather than the common belief Cheney wanted cheap Iraqi oil?