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16. I'm cynical enough to think the administration did what it could

to essentially tie the hands of the military, perhaps even withhold certain intelligence, not just to ruin our country through our laws/freedom but so they could do what they wanted for real profit. I think they the war machine and profiteering of two wars, had we killed him and routed the al-qaeda along with the taliban in Afghanistan which we did a pretty good job of in the beginning 'invasion' then pretty much pissed away, they would have had a harder time selling the Iraq war WMD BS or not.

How are you going to say Iraq is a 'threat' when OBL was responsible, we just killed him, essentially destroyed his group and the government in Afghanistan that allowed him the stay there? It could have been sold as 'the terrorists' are still out there, fear fear fear they might get WMD from Iraq fear fear fear but it might have been too much of a risk if OBL was dead.

I think the larger motivation was the huge pile of american gold that invading Iraq would net defense contractors.

Had we stayed on track in Afghanistan we could have left much sooner(2008-10 at the latest) and had as much of a 'stable and secure' country there as we are really ever going to have minus a generation of people there who see us as nothing but invaders/occupying forces as well as avoiding losses like the people we killed and the soldiers we lost.