@Advocate,
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You are either lying or are very ignorant. No reputable historian would say we invaded Iraq to help Israel. Bush and Cheney, both oil men, invaded to grab the country's oil resouces. Early on, the Bush crowd had prepared maps that divided the oil areas between the American oil companies.
The NEOCONS, i.e., was in charge of US foreign policy in the middle east. It was at their prolonged insistence that the US invade Iraq a second time. The US normally would not have undertaken such a risk so soon after the first Gulf War, Desert Storm, but Cheney was persuaded easily because Paul Wolfowitz (neocon and early planners of the 2nd Iraq war) had informed Cheney "Iraq is swimming in Oil." Greedy Cheney saw an opportunity for his "former" company Halliburton and its subsidiaries to march into Iraq for profit.YIPPEE!!!!!!!
The reason the Israelis were sore afraid of Saddam Hussein was because he had earlier used nerve gas on the Kurds (his own people) and Iranians living in Iraq.....the entire neighborhood believed he still possessed a fair amount of sarin nerve gas. When the first Gulf War, Desert Storm, under Bush senior commenced, the first thing Hussein did was send missiles into Israel. Israel immediately set about handing out gas masks to its people. From that point on, Saddam Hussein was Israel's enemy and must be gotten rid of.
The Neocons completely permeated the White House during GWB's tenure and had full power over the dummy president, W. The carnivorous craving of the Vice President for Iraq's oil was easily influenced into going to war in Iraq, eager to do so in fact.....Cheney was the de Facto president of the US during George W Bush's term....after all W had stolen the election from Al Gore, so Cheney stole the presidency from W.