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ABC News: Real Reason For Iraq War - Just A US Global Show

W A S H I N G T O N, April 25 - To build its case for war with Iraq,
the
Bush administration argued that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass
destruction, but some officials now privately acknowledge the White
House
had another reason for war - a global show of American power and
democracy.
Officials inside government and advisers outside told ABCNEWS the
administration emphasized the danger of Saddam's weapons to gain the
legal justification for war from the United Nations and to stress the danger
at home to Americans. "We were not lying," said one official. "But it was
just a matter of emphasis."

Officials now say they may not find hundreds of tons of mustard and
nerve agents and maybe not thousands of liters of anthrax and other toxins.
But U.S. forces will find some, they say. On Thursday, President Bush
raised the possibility for the first time that any such Iraqi weapons were
destroyed before or during the war. If weapons of mass destruction were
not the primary reason for war, what was? Here's the answer officials and
advisers gave ABCNEWS.

The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks changed everything, including the Bush administration's thinking about the Middle East — and not just Saddam Hussein.

Senior officials decided that unless action was taken, the Middle East would continue to be a breeding ground for terrorists. Officials feared that young Arabs, angry about their lives and without hope, would always looking for someone to hate — and that someone would always be Israel and the United States.

"Man könnte sich natürlich auch fragen wieso die Leute Israel und die USA hassen. Wegen Ihrer "Demokratie" oder weil Sie jeden Tag Palästinenser töten und die Araber seit Jahrzehnten unterdrücken?"