This guy goes through a bunch of random ideas about a motive. Let me spell it out and save people the bother of reading such a silly article:
(i) Elements within the US Government want exclusive access to Iraqi oil for US oil companies. This has been the case for many years, possibly decades.
(ii) Kuwait was a trap. Saddam was told that the US would consider it an "internal Arab matter", but then the US used it as a reason to decimate Iraq's military... at that time Iraq had the third or fourth largest army on earth.
(iii) After Kuwait, the US has denied Iraq from dealing with Russia, Japan, France, and China, by vetoing many repeated requests by the UN Security council to end Kuwait-related sanctions on Iraq. This has saved the oil for later seizure on behalf of US interests.
(iv) Iraq has been deliberately crippled with ten years of sanctions. These sanctions have definitely not had any effect on WMD: these were all gone a year or so after the Kuwait war. Rather, these sanctions have ensured further reductions in Iraqi conventional military, emergency, and medical capabilities, intended to make this invasion easier.
(v) The bizarre no-fly zones were enforced for a decade to allow the CIA to arm and train Kurdish fighters in the north, specifically with this war in mind.
(vi) The time was right to get an "Oil Administration" into power. Bush, Cheney, and Condi are US Oil people. If this "Oil Administration" had failed to get into power and start the Iraq war, another "Oil Administration" would have run for office next time, again and again, until the Oil lobby got their people in and the war could get underway.
(vii) The purpose of the war is to seize the oil so that it is made available exclusively for US interests at a later date. The purpose most certainly is *not* to reduce the price of oil, or increase access to oil by foreign governments. This seizure can easily be accomplished through, for example, the creation of a nationalized Iraqi oil company that owns the Iraqi oil fields, yet is itself owned and controlled indirectly by US interests. This, of course, could not be accomplished easily if the UN were controlling the administration of Iraq.
> "...Unless the peace movement has discovered telepathy, I doubt that it's in any better position to divine the hidden thoughts or secret motivations of George Bush and Tony Blair than I am. Arguing about unstated motives, therefore, is a waste of time -- claims cannot be proven or disproven..."
What an idiot.
Whenever a crime is committed, the police detective first of all must uncover both the stated and unstated motives. That's a given. This idiot doesn't seem to have a clue.
In many cases the ignorant may not even realize a crime has occurred. The detective has to see past that. 