To protect Americas from this dangerous regime

I actually do believe that the Bush Administration sincerely felt they were attacking Iraq to protect America from a dangerous regime - the Democrats.

9/11 changed U.S policy toward the Middle East for sure. AB has pointed out reasons for the US invading Iraq, some I agree with, I believe those reasons lie within a broader post 911 philosophy regarding the Middle East, a philosophy that Obama has embraced since taking office, but railed against during his 08 campaign. Go figure.

Iraq was never at any point a physical threat to the United States, but the Bush Administration painted an entire scenario where the Iraqi regime, broken by 10 years of sanctions and no-fly zones, was a nascent nuclear power with large caches of biological and chemical weapons. Turns out in retrospect that Iraq didn't have any large stores of WMD's. This ultimately killed whatever credibility the Bush Administration had left.

LOL dangerous regime Iraq military was/is 3rd world status at best. No WMD's Lunatic leader, yes, but one with at heart little capacity to do damage outside his own country.

It turns out they were no big danger to anyone except maybe their immediate neighbors.Even Bush finally had to admit that nothing was found.They had been crippled by sanctions for years and were effectively surrounded when we waged our war.If we wanted to punish nations that harbor and fund terrorism why didn't we bomb Saudi Arabia?That's where most of the 9/11 hijackers and BinLaden are from,and they have given plenty of money to groups like Al-Queda.Now they're trying to sell us the rather quaint notion that thousands of lives were lost and billions of dollars spent so that they could have an election.Funny,I remember being told it was to avoid Armageddon.

This regime wasn't dangerous to the American people until our fearless leader sent us there in droves.

As usual, we Americans are just dumb and uninformed oil grubbers, I guess. Never mind the fact that they were paying the families of suicide bombers or gassing their own people or any crap like that.

The regime was so dangerous that those mysterious WMDS have not been found to this day.

Suddam was ruling over a secular society which BANNED movements such as AlQaeda. Now that protection has gone! You really should learn more about the world before you start linking the two. By American interests, would that mean oil? Surely this is a world interest? If Iraq, as a sovereign country, chooses NOT to sell its oil, then that is its perogative, not yours to go and take. The coalition had no right being in Iraq without a threat from them. Now we must ensure that we rectify the situation properly.

If you get past the rhetoric, and to the facts, you'll be able to understand why this is true. Between 1984 and 1988, six separate teams of UN investigators documented Iraq using chemical weapon on Iranians. In 1988, Iraqi foreign minister admitted that poisen gas was part of the Iraqi war policy. What's more, Hussien tried to obtain nuclear weapons techonolgy. With the help of his pals in France, Saddam built the Osirik nuclear reactor which would give him the materials necessary for a nuclear weapon.

Iraq was no threat to the U.S. If you believe that, then you probably still believe in the Easter Bunny.

Iraq had Weapons that were a threat to the Greatest country of the world. If we pull out we probably might be attacked by them.

Saddam Hussein had, on many occasions, threatened American interests in many locations. No doubt, Hussein supported the evil Al Qaeda and was cheering on the uncalled-for attacks on our great nation.

Dan, I know you're being sarcastic but no, that's not the reason.