Why was the Iraq war started?

[cheerfulgreek]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

You remember incorrectly.

In fact, Saddam Hussein orchestrated the largest use of biological or chemical weapons in the history of the world - there is absolutely no doubt that, as of the first Iraq war, Iraq had biological and chemical weapons capability.

Whether or not this is true for the second Iraq war is certainly up for debate, and the ethics of relying on certain intelligence to justify the war is an interesting topic, but I don't really think it's all that important - WMDs were a convenient rationale, but the reason was likely entirely geopolitical.

o.k. but what do you mean by geopolitical?