Uhmmm. It was US and Brits that bombed Iraq.
The "for oil" argument...been quite a few years now...
we still don't benefit from Iraqi oil..all the twenty year contracts are done and we're not benefiting from Iraqi for the next twenty years either...in fact I gotta ask. What are you talking about?

Come on then. Enlighten me. What was it all about then?

I don't know what it was for the Brits. The U.S. had the majority of the population screaming ""DO SOMETHING!!!!!!!!!!!!"", and all the battle plans hatched out for invading Iraq just laying around, and evidence of training camps, plus 8 years of Clinton assuring us that Hussein did not destroy his wmd....sooooooo.

The Hussein problem started with the 1990 invasion of Kuwait - which lead to the first War on Terror in Iraq and the tension in the ranks of the Taliban.
The Taliban tension was a result of the Ayatolla Chomeini leaving his exile in France to take over the power in Iran, which happened a few years before the 1990 invasion of Kuwait by Iraq.
The Kuwait were important to the USA because of the Q8 oil fields.
The Iran Ayatolla problem was a pact between France, Germany and the USA to gain power back in the Middle East, but it sort of back fired, when the strickter religious regimes got more and more power.

Everything after that is a spin off of those days and those actions.

Hussein got the support from France and the USA in the fight against the upcomming regimes of the Talliban and the Ayatolla's in Iran. That is why he was not taken down in the first Gulf War in 1991. They needed him still in that region.

If those problems were not about the Q8 oil fields, then why did Sadam Hussein set fire to all the oil fields in the Kuweit at the end of the first Gulf War in 1991?????

http://gizmodo.com/5592836/bp-photoshops-another-official-image-again-terribly

Someone send me this one...

Okay. Anfa and I got off BP onto the present war.
Why you're talking about the first one is over my head.
Russians something something.

Why can't you see then, that everything is linked? Cause and effect. Or did you think that the problems the USA have with the muslims and the attack on US soil just came out of nowhere? Did you not learn anything from history? Or are the people of the US not allowed to learn their own history? Is that a way to treat all the US soldiers who gave their life and limbs in the First Gulf War?

Showing different points along a convoluted line without placing them in sequence or giving start/end points leaves too little information for a solution.

Total Cost of Wars Since 2001
$1,020,865,361,145

http://costofwar.com/

U.S. military deaths in Iraq war at 4,412

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2010/07/20/iraq_us_deaths

Documented civilian deaths from violence
97,110 – 105,956

http://www.iraqbodycount.org

LOL @ "and all the battle plans hatched out for invading Iraq just laying around"
But there wasn't any WMDs or al Qaeda training camps in Iraq.

Here's what I think is the most accurate run down you're gonna find.
Feb. 2003 ... a month before the war started.
http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/iraq_peace_option


...and this is worth reading.