Ockey, that's all well and good that the US is trying to be nice to the Iraqis by freeing them from opression la di da da.. I'm sure if Iraq follows the ideals of the US and whatever it wants, it too can prosper like Japan and Germany
I wish them the best..
However, why are we only interested in Iraq? There a many other countries in the world being ruled by despotic crimminals to whom we don't give a rat's arse.
Anyhow, it has to be about either Israel or oil. I think it's a mixture of both, especially oil. Not to sell it and get profits, but to control
it. Saddam was selling Iraq's oil in Euros and the Iranian mullahs were thinking to start selling their oil in Euros too. If this trend was to continue, that would be catastrophic to the US economy. For more information you can read this if you like: link