well he was openly funding terrorist groups... and offering money for those that did attacks on america (or america's allies, like israel, australia, UK, etc)...

not to mention we knew he had REAL weapons... not civilian jets, we gave him to fight the communists. and if he was offering money for those that took american lives, whats stopping him from selling those to terrorist groups?

This stuff wasnt exactly done under the radar. saddam was quite open with this "philanthropy" for terrorist organizations. ... i mean, they had THISin iraqs government building.

we help preserve the reserves for the future rulers of iraq. we dont want the country to fall into poverty after the war and that is one of iraqs greatest exports. poverty causes terrorism. saddam payed out money to peoples families that were involved in suicide bombings... something a deserpite poor person might consider. and he helped fund the taliban and al qaeda...

it was never about oil... do you have any idea how much oil they would have to steal to make it worth it? do you have ANY IDEA how difficult that would be? to sneak past the media and other countries? those reserves of oil are the size of skyscrapers. they cant just bring it on a boat little by little. so what if bush had stock in oil companies. most rich people in the united states do.

if we were stealing oil, why are our gas prices skyrocketing? why are the stocks only stabalizing? youd think billions of gallons of oil with no cost to the company would help business alittle more than a couple points, right?

or do you think that we just want them as a vendor since saddam didnt sell us oil? even though we get about 50% of our oil domestically... and about half of our imported oil is from this hemisphere... mexico/canada ... on the other hemisphere its africa is about 20%... and a big chunk from saudi arabia... not much left over coming from iraq.

better yet. ignore the last 4 paragraphs and supply a source that says the war was about oil.

please refrain from sending me conspiracy youtube videos with spooky music.