“RE: RE: Bush, Iraq, al Qaeda, WMD, Terrorism, etc., etc., etc.”

On 4/21/04, Mark Morgan said:

>I haven't read through all their archives so I don't know if they have
>an answer to a very important question: why Iraq? There are a lot of
>places we could go and play Empire and try to establish Pax Americana,
>some of which are a lot more dangerous to us.  (North Korea? Saudi
>Arabia? Syria?)  Why Iraq?

Strategic location. They've hammered on that point repeatedly.