The oil connection

[The Duke]

So far it seems that the oil argument boils down to "Iraq had oil, we invaded Iraq, therefore we invaded for oil."

You dismissively throw out the connection to terrorists, not only failing to refute evidence that contradicts you, but failing to even acknowledge that it exists.  You dismiss the liberation argument and don't base this dismissal on anything either except a bold assertion that it can't be liberation because Bush is bad.  You ignore periphery motivations like the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and sending a message to other middle eastern dictators.

Please explain, Shira, why you feel the need to ignore facts and invent alterior motives based on very tenuous connections.

[The Duke]

Actually Bush really can't explain his justification for going to war.

Senators like Kerry are why we are in this war.

Kerry: Saddam Hussein is a threat
Campaign Advisor: Senator Kerry, we're behind Dean by over 10 points
Kerry: Well in that case, we were misled! Bush rushed us to war!

Of course Saddam was a threat.  So are about 30 other nations.  Do we invade tehm at the cost of untold trillions?  We WERE rushed to war.

I don't think you can name 30 countries that are serious threats to America.