Mar 29, 2022
Oh absolutely. But, I suspect if the earlier Iraq war had not been so successful, Bush might not have tried to invade later.
I don't know the details but I am not sure this was all on Bush. It is my impression that the whole Neocon network around people like Cheney really believed in this stuff. I suspect they developed those ideas from earlier success against Saddam. It allowed them to dream their megalomaniac dreams.