Quote Originally Posted by Dynamics View Post
But it was about regime change and removing a murdering killing despot. And bloody right too. It was nothing to do with wmd for me, then and now. That was the liberal politics of the uk trying to cook up legitimacy for war with the US. Most people who were a bit gullible then didn't realise it was about regime change. That was what the yanks wanted i.e. Regime change, and without them nobody was going into Iraq.
But why did they want regime change? Saddam came to power in '79 IIRC, he was always a murdering, killing despot, that's how he got the job! 2003 they finally decide they'd better do something about it.

Fact is 'he was a sunovabitch but he was 'our sunovabitch' - until he decided to change the terms of the deal. Then he's a murdering despot who can hit the UK with an anthrax loaded missile in 10 minutes.

Whatever the specific reason it was the oil. It's always the oil. That's the only truly simple thing about the whole subject.