Why are we really in Iraq? Who's next and why?

Question

Short answers such as "oil, hegemony, mistaken intelligence, WMDs" don't seem to be satisfactory these days. Any solid evidence/reasoning/sources?

Oh, sorry, humanitarian reasons are out as well. No interest being shown in Sudan, Myanmar, etc. As well as the fact that (even though unintentionally) hundreds of thousands of Iraqis (over 300k according to the UN) have been killed since the opening of the war. Saddam was a tortuous murderer for sure, but we make him look like a joke.

Hmm, 9/11, yeah I saw something about that. Then I also remember hearing (even directly from Bush's mouth) that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11. But, yeah there were a few training camps, as there are in other countries, even in the State of Oregon! And now the whole place is a terrorist incubator and inspiration to aspiring radical leaders/suicide bombers. That's the implied justification they used to get you to support it. I was hoping to get the real reason, not one that's been severely debunked.

Answer 1

We're in Iraq for three really lame reasons:
1. The Bush family held a personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein since the days of Desert Storm when George H.W. Bush was ridiculed, criticized and humiliated for "not finishing the job" and ousting Hussein at that time;
2. The giant U.S. military-industrial complex [which Dwight Eisenhower warned us about] needed a new 'war' to boost its sagging profits from too many years of peace;
3. Cheney coveted all that OIL swimming underneath Iraq's sands. That's why Bush's number-one non-military 'benchmark' insists that the Iraqi Parliament surrender two-thirds of its OIL fields to private, foreign corporations, which gives companies like Mobil-Exxon the right to virtually STEAL Iraq's most valuable economic resource.*

The Bush administration lied to Congress, hoodwinked the American people, and conned our brave U.S. soldiers into believing there was honorable purpose for this 'war', when - in fact - our troops have put their lives in harm's way so that a handful of wealthy OIL barons, elitists, industrialists and power brokers can become wealthier and more powerful.

IRAN is next - and for the very same reasons: OIL and WAR PROFITEERING.

America is building the largest embassy in the world on a 104-acre site in downtown Baghdad overlooking the Iraqi puppet government installed by the Bush administration. Halliburton is building fourteen (yes - 14!) new permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq - one right on the Iraqi-Iranian border. The plan is to steal all of Iran's easily-accessible OIL so that American OIL barons can record even more obscene profits and build financial reserves with which to monopolize the alternative-fuel markets as OIL dries up, all the while holding naive American motorists hostage because we're too ignorant, lazy and stupid to recognize how Big OIL continues to gouge the many for the enrichment of the few.

Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and all their war-mongering friends have perpetrated a cruel hoax on American citizens and the world. They all deserve a special oil-soaked, blood-stained corner of Hell where they can rot eternally, along with:
* 535 members of the most arrogant, contemptible, wicked, incompetent, cowardly, corrupt Republican-led Congress in U.S. history that stood by and watched Bush run rip shod over our Constitution
-AND-
* 535 members of the most arrogant, contemptible, wicked, incompetent, cowardly, corrupt Democratic-led Congress in U.S. history that promised to end this vile 'war' if elected, and - to date - has done absolutely nothing to keep that promise. May God DAMN them all!!!!
-TKO- 11/14/07

Answer 2

Why Iraq? Why not? For a nation so concerned about civil rights nobody seems upset about the way Hussien violated human rights. The next country we should invade should be Saudi Arabia fro the human rights violations; or for that matter any Islamic country...or maybe Mexico...end the corruption, establish a economy, and secure our southern border from terrorist infiltration.

Our nation and our way of life is under attack from many nations...think about. Freedom is not free

Answer 3

It might have something to do with the fact that Hussein and his government helped to train and finance terrorists who want to destroy America. You remember 9/11? Surely you heard about it. It was in all the newspapers and I believe the TV had some coverage of it.
As to who is next and why, it will be whoever attacks us next and because they attacked us.

Answer 4

Nope, None, Nada, No friggin reason at all, other than to kill off our own soldiers!