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Originally Posted by Texpat  Believe what you want to satisfy your bias. The liberation was about regime change. |
Actually, I do believe the invasion and occupation was all about regime change. But not for the moralistic reasons purported by Bush and his partners in crime.
At the same time, Bush and his cronies told the public a pack of lies about Iraq possessing WMDS and involvement with Al Qaeda. That's how the war was "sold" to the voting public. A combination of fear, revenge and patriotic pride rather than the truth.
No way Bush would ever have been reelected if he told the public he was only going to send a small proportion of forces to Afghanistan to hunt for Bin Laden while the majority of US military would be sent to Iraq only to force regime change. The US voting public were conned pure and simple.