Do you think the plan all along was to break up Iraq and start a big regional war?

Question

I mean, I'm prepared to believe some people in charge were just stupid, but when EVERYBODY who knows anything says something is impossible, you have to start to think about ulterior motives.

DC - Perhaps, but try to think a little harder. Iraq didn't attack us.

Answer 1

War profiteering is one major motive.

Corporate and militarist interests stand to profit from never-ending civil strife. Selling arms and support to multiple warring parties ensures an everlasting conflict to keep the money rolling in. It has worked wonders in sub-Saharan Africa for decades and it seems to be working just as well in Iraq.

There is just not much to be gained from stability.

Answer 2

They're not stupid at all it was the plan all along that's the sick part!

Here's a clip of two short interviews with PNAC author, Philip Zelikow 9/11 Commissioner, Israeli lobbyst, Council on Foreign Relations member.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2201110107101812715&q=zelikow&total=39&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2201110107101812715&q=zelikow&total=39&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

Zelikow co-author of a book with Condi Rice and an article called "Catastrophic Terrorism" which was subtitled "Imagining the Transforming Event." This article was clearly an architectural level document, meant to explain what should be done in the event of the catastrophic terror attack its authors were "imagining."

There's a raft of evidence to suggest that Zelikow has personal, professional and political reasons not to see the commission hold Rice and other Bush officials accountable for pre-9/11 failings.

Download examples of government sponsored terrorism before 9/11

"010725alexjoneswarns911b"
http://www.archive.org/details/911_44

Answer 3

Look back at all we've done in the region. We ousted a democratically elected president in Iran. We brought the Ba'athists to power and helped Saddam to control his own people. We support brutal right-wing dictatorships in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

We did all this stuff, we said, for 'stability' in the region. Whenever you hear American politicians justifying imperialism they always use the word 'stability'. Bush has even used it to justify our war in Iraq, though it's had exactly the opposite effect.

But there might be some merit to your idea, I mean originally, before our Iraq adventure failed so badly. There was talk of sweeping through the area, after Iraq the Syria, and then Iran, to put an American stooge in charge of EVERY country in the Middle East. Perhaps the incompetent policymakers of the Bush admin. were thinking a big all-out war in the region would have been the best way to do this, like the 6-day war in 1967.

Partitioning Iraq was and still is a non-starter. Turkey would never stand for an independent Kurdustan, and you can see how Bush even now is dead-set against aggravating Turkey. (In fact Turkey has its troops massed along the border, ready to invade northern Iraq to keep the Kurds in their place!)

Answer 4

Well.This sounds a little crazy but I have read much after stumbling across an article about Lieberman and Jews attending a right wing evangelical Christian conference featuring DeLay, Santorum and Lieberman. Not kidding.

Zionist Jews have teamed with evangelical Christians. Those particular Jews(not all Jews) want Israel protected at all costs while the right wing Christians(these are not all Christians but have convinced many moderate Christians that they are defending Christianity) believe in the rapture, Armageddon in the middle east which will bring the second coming. Before the rapture(where only their brand of christians wil be carried off to heaven), Jews must have control of Israel so they are part of the plan. If Jews accept Christ, they get to rapture too.

Remember the remark Coulter made about Jews being imperfect. That is the evangelical theory-that they can become perfect and rapture. All these guys are evangelical rapture guys-even Bush-Coulter who trashes women because women are not as perfect as men in their religion. They are subservient.

Also, the rapture theory includes a major war, WW III, maybe nuclear. Armageddon-saw Pat Robertson in Israel (while surfing the channels) and he was talking about the glorious bombs bursting between the Palestinians and Israel. Oh, yeah, the anti-christ is supposed to come back and he will be disguised as a peacemaker. Think Jimmy Carter. He is the anti christ to them.

Of course oil and corporate interests also at play but these two powerful groups support their interests so we have an unholy alliance.

Anyway, much more if you google a little. Here's a few interesting links.

Answer 5

Bite your tongue Nazi Pelosi already said President Bush would be blamed until things got better, which means forever, because there is nothing Obama and Congress have done or intend to do to make anything better. And yes I knew Obama's stimulus cost more than the Irag War, but facts do not compute in the liberal brain.

Answer 6

No. I think that they rushed in to Iraq without completely thinking it out. They had a small window of opportunity where the American people would support such an action so they took it.
Although, I do agree that there are ulterior motives. It is not ALL about terrorism.

Answer 7

I think there were a lot of incentives for the Bush Administration, the RNC, and oil executives to invade Iraq but I don't think there was ever much of a plan. We have just sort of wandered through it.

If people weren't dying, it would be kind of funny.

Answer 8

Chaos reduces the Iraqis ability to resist the occupation.

Answer 9

I think his only thought at the time was in getting rid of Saddam.

Maybe he felt opportunity knocked for a regional war once Saddam was in US custody though. And the trials, with Saddam's execution to follow, made opportunity knock even louder.

Answer 10

in my own perspective bush government primary plan is the oil supply of Iraq.terrorism or weapon of mass distraction are made just to justify there invation to iraq.until now weapon of mass distraction has not yet proven.when they say they want to stop the dictatorship of saddam,for me it is not only Iraq who suffer from dictatorship,why IRAQ?