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Well not when he's wrong no it doesn't.

Wrong?

Why Did the US Invade Iraq?

I don’t know why the US invaded Iraq. I’ve pondered it from various angles and still can’t come up with a satisfactory answer. As a human undertaking, of course, there is always the possibility that it doesn’t make sense, or was the result of irrationality. While keeping that possibility in mind, one has to assume rationality in order to perform any kind of analysis. So, operating from the premise that the decision to invade Iraq was made by rational people—even if it was the result of a miscalculation or based on flawed information—I keep returning to the question: why did the US invade Iraq?

The stated reasons for the invasion are transparently false. Informed people knew this before the war. There is no question at this point that the reasons that America gave for the invasion were untrue. First we were told that Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the security of the United States. That’s laughable; Iraq had no territorial or other ambitions against the US. The Iraqi military by 2003 was not even in direct control of two-thirds of Iraq, and was in no position to threaten its neighbors.

The American government consistently took the position that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction, allegedly chemical and biological weapons. Let’s assume for the moment that Iraq in fact did posses those weapons. From a military standpoint, so what?

Many countries possess chemical and/or biological weapons, including the United States. Mere possession of a weapon does not constitute a threat. States are rational entities, and rational entities act in their interests. It would not have been in Iraq’s interest to use or export chemical or biological weapons, since doing so would have resulted in an attack
by the United States. The Iraqi leadership knew this. In other words, Iraq was deterred from using any WMDs it might have had against the US, our allies, or any other country in the region, with the exception of Iran.