>>There is a veritable wealth of information that points to the administration determined to invade Iraq at any cost. There is no shortage of public information available that shows this.
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>I agree with you in that it was an excuse. But the question remains unanswered, basically: what was the real reason.

In the short term, it is clearly to create a friendly, secular government in order to secure access to oil. Also to remove an ememy of an Saudi Arabia, which is an import supplier of oil to the US. I heard the Canadian general Romeo Delaire (who spent many years on an military exchange in the US) say that the longer term strategy is to provide air bases to encircle and contain China as it starts to flex its muscles over the next 20-30 years.