Ah, there you go again, blinded by the smokescreen. Do you not know that the war was about Weapons of Mass Destruction? Not Saddam's but America's. The multi billion dollars arms indudrialists and their incestuous brothers in high office needed a boost for their sagging industry and what better than a skirmish a safe distance from home. A perfect scenario for the disposal of obselete stock and a testing ground for new technology. Multi billion dollar contracts and no accountabilty (National Security). Did Eisenhower pay the Japs to bomb Pearl Harbour?