Fer Chrissakes!
When will you all quit with the WMD's or "liberation" lines??
It was for the oil.
Period.
Sooner or later, we HAD to secure Iraq's huge oil reserves....that was what Cheney's "secret energy meetings" were all about. You got a bunch of oil barons with the biggest military might to secure it. Go and get it while the gettin's good.
They didn't protect the hospitals, the antiquities museums, the water plants, etc....they protected the OIL WELLS! They even GAVE money to the Republican Guard to stand down!
Why is it you can't see the real reason when I suspected it was the oil all along?? Oh, and throw in their banks as well, OK?
Cheney, Energy and the Iraq <Invasion>