Gerard of American Digest has the most insightful non-Den Bestian essay I've ever seen on the reasons for invading Iraq. Forget all the fun-sounding election-year pablum, these are the dry, gritty, militarily-sound reasons that club you upside the head with their unarguable pragmatism.

There's really no single money-quote to give you, so I'll just take the bullet points in an attempt to make you curious enough to click over and face the facts:

1) The conquest of Iraq could be easily achieved.
2) Iraq is the "high ground" of the middle-east.
3) Control of Iraq completes the encirclement of Iran.
4) Control of Iraq permits protection and control the Saudi oil fields without being "in" Saudi Arabia.
5) Control of Iraq is not about the oil, it's about the water.

These are explained in detail at the link.

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