Originally Posted by bhkad

For the record, write this down and then stow it away on a back shelf in an old cookie jar to be opened in the future when more about the decision to invade Iraq is finally revealed to the public, here is what I believe we will discover.

The Israelis were threatening, behind the scenes, to take out the WMD's themselves and we did not want to risk the possible consequences of what might have resulted from that, so we decided to invade.

And that will be in addition to some other factors which also existed simultaneously. Let's never revert to a "ONE REASON FOR THE INVASION" discussion. There were many reasons and most of them were good ones.

Once again, rather than allowing the Israelis to protect themselves by making a pre-emptive strike on the WMD's we chose to go in instead and in so doing we prevented the possibility of a much larger conflagration which could easily have gotten out of hand.