Helen Thomas asked a question that is clearly still unanswered ......

[Stinky The Clown]

...... "Why did we *really* go to war?"

I was just watching that DISGUSTING renegade turd, Frank Gaffney on Matthews" show. He is word salading his answers as he tries to rewrite history in the mold of Cheney's continuing intent to deceive.

Why, indeed, did we go to war?

[BrklynLiberal]

1. To avenge Poppy Bush, to prove that GWB has a bigger dick than GHWB,

to stop Saddam from using the Euro to sell oil, to protect big oil's interests in the Middle East.

Nothing that had anything to do with Democracy, liberation or even revenge for 9/11. If 9/11 had not happened they would have found some way to invade Iraq anyway.

A bunch of war-mongering Chicken-hawks...Every single last one of them.

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. You forgot, to reduce competition for Bushco's Saudi buddies, and

to increase oil profits by injecting uncertainty and short term scarcity into the oil markets (though I guess those would fall under 'protect big oil's interests...').

[BrklynLiberal]

6. You are right. Haliburton and Carlyle were big factors too.

Cheney and BushCo became millionaires thanks to this war.

[midnight]

2. I thought the question was when she was interviewing Dana on

torture and Dana said the US does not do that, or some similiar outrages response and Helen asked "where is everybody?"

[malaise]

4. For oil and other profit n/t

[natrat]

5. to drain the treasury and redistribute the money

[BrklynLiberal]

7. Grover Norquist's dream

[spanone]

8. gaffney is dangerous.

[deaniac21]

9. Backfired on them. Look at the price of oil now. Ought to change

a few countries budgets, huh!

[Ian David]

10. We needed their shoes. n/t

[Gregorian]

11. That would explain the lame duck duck.

As for Helen, she who laughs last...

[progressoid]

12. And will stay unanswered.

[Blue_Tires]

13. because every so often

we must enter into a conflict so the pentagon and their contractor buddies can justify their gargantuan budgets...and like vietnam, the CIA and the high-tech weapon industry love having a little real-world test bed for all the next-gen toys and techniques...it is not without irony that some people have nicknamed our little excursion as "playing in the sandbox"

[OneBlueSky]

14. the real, bottom line reason that we went to war against Iraq is . . .

that George W. Bush wanted, with all his heart, to be a "war president" . . . he got his wish, destroying one country and bankrupting another in the process . . .