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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Do you realize that implicit in this sort of charge is the requirement that Tony Blair be a fat idiot? for all our fights, I still admit you don't drift into the conspiracy side of town, til this.
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Not really, Hank. There were reasons for invading Iraq, much as there are reasons for cleaning up the genocidal and crazed sociopathic acts of any number of dictators in any number of countries. Plus, Iraq has oil. A whole shitload of oil, which the North Sea is starting to produce less of every day.
All of the above were reasons for Blair and the rest of the coalition of the willing to plunge on in. What I meant by calling it a smokescreen was that invading Iraq really did absolutely nothing to reduce the terrorist threat to the US, but it did provide Bush with an opportunity to declare victory over something.
