KK,
There is a record "19 miles long" of statements from the administration pushing WMD's to justify going to war, but now we know the statements were just part of a con job to sell the war to the American people. (Wolfowitz's "bureaucratic reasons" statement as much as admits that.)

When WMDs weren't found the Administration did a little PR dance and slithered into "spreading democracy" as the reason we went to war. Anybody that knows anything about Cheney, Rumsfeld, or Rove knows that's ridiculous. These gentlemen are into personal power, not democracy.

Sec of State Powell's aide, Mr. Wilkerson(sp?), says that control of US foreign policy was hi-jacked, and the country was taken to war, by a small cabal centered around Cheny and Rumsfeld.

I'd be interested in your opinion, KK, and the opinons of other board members, as to why the characters in the cabal really wanted to go to war in Iraq? The WMD story was just propaganda. . What were the real reasons?
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