It was all about Bush's determination to avenge his father. I do think,
however, that the world is a better place without Saddam, seeing that he was
quite a cruel dictator who ***ed millions. And also, when a country's
government is toppled, it takes years and years (probably a decade) for
stability to return. So while Saddam's ouster is not doing much to help the
suffering of the living Iraqis, the future of the county looks brighter
because of it.
As long as another tyrant doesn't replace the old, that is.
This idea that we were going into Iraq to rid the country and the world of
these weapons was a pretext. Apparently, however, we did gain some
intelligence about Terrorism, which is good. The reason for the pretext, of
course, was to try to get UN support. And while we couldn't say the
possible real reason (which probably even Bush wouldn't admit to or never
actually knew), we should have at least made the terrorist connection, since
we didn't get UN support anyhow.
Alanb