Bush and Iraq

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This paper contends that neither terrorism nor the desire for democracy was at the root of the American invasion of Iraq. The paper attempts to illustrate why America invaded Iraq, claiming that there are no easy answers. The paper presents some opinions that propose that the war is connected to the vast, multi-trillion dollar oil reserves. Other views suggest that perhaps the war is a way to win popularity for a president who has built his presidency around war abroad. Others suggest more radical theories, such as religious crusading or the attempted fulfillment of prophecies.

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"According to the original reasoning behind Bush's war on Iraq, Saddam Hussein's regime posed a terrorist threat to the free world, however (subsequent to evidence emerging in the press that this threat was exaggerated, if not fabricated) in more recent statements the Bush administration has strongly implied that the war was justified not on the basis of freeing the world of terrorists but because Hussein was a brutal dictator and Iraq needed to be freed from his rule. The idea that the war on terror is actually a war to bring democracy to the world is one which may coincide somewhat with the controversial ideas espoused by Fukuyama, who taught that History (which is to say the evolution of society, not the happening of events) would end when all nations were converted to western liberal democracies and engaged in the global consumerist culture. "

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