1. Why did the USA invade Iraq in 2003? The question is a good deal harder to answer than one would think.
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2. There are the standard explanations Bush administration & it's supporters gave: WMD, democracy, etc. Obviously lies.
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3. But the explanation of anti-war movement ("war for oil") doesn't quite make sense.
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4. Obviously Middle Eastern oil is important, but USA interest isn't so much controlling oil as maintaining hegemony region & access to oil.
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5. From point of view of maintaining regional hegemony in ME, Iraq war was a huge risk (as we've seen in aftermath).
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6. Fact is: USA had very strong grip on region before Iraq war, and war itself weakened USA's position in region.
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7. There's notion, articulated by Philip Weiss among others, that neo-cons & Israel drove agenda:http://mondoweiss.net/2015/05/facing-neocon-captivity …
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8. Again, this explanation doesn't work: neo-cons were junior members of GOP establishment. Rumsfeld, Cheney were in charge, not Wolfowitz
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@ElizabethDrewOH Right, but why listen to Wolfowitz's counsel and not, say, Colin Powell's?
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