My take on the situation,is that the people who pull and push Mr Bushs' strings rods and buttons, made an early assessment,that saddams regime could not survive for much longer due to the weakened state of the countys' infrastructure and the continued pressure from Fundamentalists with leanings towards an Iranian style republic.
They had decided even before 9/11 to invade Iraq and attempt to set up a Western style "democracy",which would give them access to Iraqi oil supply.
This would have been a marvellous plan,if it had worked, but as we predicted ,and events proved,they completely underestimated the power of the clerics, who are even better than the capitalists at manipulation.
We are now left with the situation,where all the arabs who have not been bought, see America-UK as "The new evil empire".
As iv stated here often the conflict is unfortunately now Islam V The West,and if we wish our lifestyle to continue as before, we have no option but to follow where our swine lead us.....Ake