What Are We Fighting For?

3/26/03

My guess of the moment as to what this is about:

20% U.S. military empire

12% Showing off U.S. military might

10% vengeance for 9/11

10% Israel

8% Daddy's unfinished business

7% Creating a showcase democracy that will reform the middle east

7% Saddam regime change

7% Control of Oil

5% enrichment of the usual suspects (Haliburton et al.)

5% Political gain for Republicans

4% Liberating the peoples of Iraq from Stalinist dictatorship3% Viet-Nam

2% chemical and biological arms

0% Making the world safe from terrorism