What was the official and real reason on why the United States invaded Iraq?

[Anonymous]

What was the official and real reason on why the United States invaded Iraq?

[OddBeMe]

Bush’s pride. Halliburton’s bottom line.

Bush went into office in Jan 2001 wanting to invade Iraq. Bin Laden played him like a fiddle. Then Obama made his fiddle into swiss cheese.

https://youtu.be/qwIaLiDfkuE

[WindAtMyBack]

Which time? The first time it was to drive them out of Kuwait. The second time was basically to finish the job because the first time didn't get the point across. Even after DOZENS of UN resolutions, Iraq didn't get the point. Iraq was making total fools on the UN, and showing just how gutless they are, with no real enforcement capabilities.

[DarkLegacy]

The official reason given was they were terrorists who could use WMDs. The real reason was money, access to natural resources and the USA trying to dictate to the whole world. Shame on our PM here in the UK at the time for going along with this lie and aiding the USA one of their many illegal wars.

[Jersey2]

And our President wanted to be a “war-time President”. And the CIA bought fake documents from Africa which said Saddam had WMD and he would not allow verification.

[DarkLegacy]

@Jersey2 Tell me about it, here in the UK we also falsified evidence on behalf of the American government and when a doctor called Doctor David Kelly who was a weapons expert exposed the lies he rather conveniently 'committed suicide'.

[patois]

It was a bank heist. Billions sent to Iraq. Billions taken from Iraq central bank. Funds distributed to cabal members. Many Democrats involved. Many families involved. Lot of money stolen from American tax payers.

[patois]

It's the same shit happening in Ukraine right now and they have already funded Iran and plan to do it there as well. There's a lot of dirty people in government.

[ProbablyClueless]

The official reason was because they were allegedly providing shelter to the Taliban, and they allegedly had weapons of mass destruction.

The real reason is that they were looking to stop trading oil in the US Dollar.

[slatyb]

The pretense that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. He didn't. Things we had in Iraq. The US wasted lot of money making it much much worse for some neocon fantasy.

[PA19062024]

The official reason was, once again, a lie. "Weapons of mass destruction", which anyone could have told Bush and his henchmen Iraq didn't have. But the war was good for business, good for Halliburton, and good for Dick Cheney.

[libsaretards]

Good question. If you ever find out, please let me know why I was over there.

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

For money. It's always about money to be made by greedy scumbags, not the BS excuses they sell the public through the media.

[Anonymous]

I don't think there was only one reason. But I think it was personal with W. Regardless of whatever is said after the attempted assassination of Bush Sr. by Saddam.

[KostasKouvalis]

Bush Jr. needed to finish what daddy started

[Theodoricus]

The US just invaded Iraq like Vietnam, Afghanistan, Korea etc. For what? For resources.

[Anonymous]

Officially, weapons of mass destruction. Unofficially, Bush wanted to finish what his father started and Congress wanted to profit from their defense industry investments.

[Twalli]

The official reason isn't the real reason

[RedInnocent69]

Bullshit, weapons of mass destruction.