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Why did the US go to war against Iraq in March 2003 with further plans to attack Syria, Iran and probably Lebanon? None of the reasons thus far given provide a shred of evidence.
No weapons of mass destruction have been discovered. No ties between Iraq and Al Queda have been established. No threats to US security existed. Many of the US past and present allies have equal or worse human rights records than Iraq.
The war, the conquest, occupation, killing and vile systematic torture and imprisonment of thousands of Iraqis has aroused the hostility and indignation of hundreds of millions of Christians, Muslims and free thinkers throughout the world, justly discrediting the whole political establishment in Washington and overseas. US oil companies have been unable to benefit in the face of a growing anti-colonial resistance, their investments throughout the Middle East and South Central Asia are under siege. The OPEC countries for a time rejected US and EU pressures to pump more oil to lower sky-high prices ? partly a hostile response to the US invasion of Iraq.