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Reconsidering Iraq: What If We Had Been Greeted as Liberators?

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This would have been a brilliant scheme if they had been able to pull it off. With a few master strokes (plus many innocent lives), Bush and Cheney could have gained control of a significant portion of the world's oil supply; broken OPEC; paid back Saddam Hussein for trying to assassinate Bush-41 and looked heroic for deposing a tyrant; paid for the war itself; mitigated the adverse effects of the Bush tax cuts on the budget surplus; reduced the national debt and the trade deficit; provided huge windfall profits for rich friends and political cronies in the construction, oilfield services, and oil refining industries; and made it all look free.

Was this the real reason for the Iraq War? I don't know; none of us may ever know. But it's a scenario that might have worked. If only we had been greeted as liberators.

(Writer's note: I intentionally avoid using the abbreviation "WMD" for "weapons of mass destruction" here. No device capable of annihilating of thousands of people at a time should be accorded such a casually convenient handle. Mass destruction is inconvenient; the terms used to describe its instruments must be inconvenient too.)

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Rick Wise is an industrial psychologist and retired management consultant. For 15 years, he was managing director of ValueNet International, Inc. Before starting ValueNet, Rick was director, corporate training and, later, director, corporate (more...)
 
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