should we have kept iraqi oil

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(01-26-2017, 10:01 PM)Dill Wrote: Sure Hitler was bad, but the US would not go to war against him--until HE DECLARED WAR ON THE U.S. on Dec. 11, 1941.

On that date, all Americans in Germany were arrested and Hitler immediately began to sink US shipping in the Atlantic.

You did not answer Benton's questions. No Americans were threatened by Saddam. The US had effective control of half his country through no fly zones and the Kurds controlled the north.

The stated reason for the invasion was to neutralize the imminent threat of WMDs.  Bush did not bring a white paper to Congress full of cooked intel about how Saddam oppressed his people when he wanted authorization for war. Powell did not go before the UN with photographs of Saddam hanging people to explain the US rationale to the world.

When the war went south and no WMDs were found, then the war became about the poor Iraqi people.

Some were fooled by the change in rationale. Others not.  

Outstanding use of the bold feature.

Any idea why Hitler DECLARED WAR ON THE U.S.? Were we just chillin' minding our own business or were we trying to be the world's police.

When did Germany invade the U.S.? (aka when were Americans threatened by Hitler?

The rest is just more hindsight and a declaration of how some (of course not the likes of you) were fooled.