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Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
A lot of people wonder why we are in Iraq! Dubyah wanted a war? Finish what Daddy started?

Didn't any americans read the infamous 1998 letter signed by Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz outlining exactly what they would do when they got to power and why they would do it ?

It was/is on their web site ( www.newamericancentury.org, the neo-conservative organistaion)

In that memo, they coined the "axis of evil" phrase, named iraq, iran and north korea as being part of that axis. Condemned Clinton for signing a "peace" deal with North Korea and swore to break that deal when they got into power. And they wanted to re-assert the USA's power with a military invasion of Iraq (easy target without any big weapons) that would show the world and especially the middle east that they can't mess with the USA. Essentially the big bully hurting a weak one so that all the others will fear the big bully again.

They accused Clinton of weakening the USA's power in the world by being "nice" and planned to reassert the USA's power via the military and invade Iraq to force the middle east to respect the USA's power.

And this is one of the reason that Rumsfeld/Cheney/Wolfowitz insisted on keeping the state department and UN out of Iraq because he wanted the solution to be military all the way.
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