[piercehawkeye45]

There is a big difference on the reasons why we went to war with the Axis Powers and Iraq. We did not go to war with Germany because of the holocaust, we actually didn't know about it until after the war, but for various other reasons such as the drastic imperialism and spread of fascism throughout Europe and eventually the entire world. Both Germany and Japan were not going to be stopped and the only way to defeat them is if the United States joined in the war.

The reasons for going into Iraq are still not fully known to the public because our administration obviously lied about their true intentions with Iraq. And guessing at their reasons, we can see them as more imperialistic than self-defense which makes sense with the entire neoconservative agenda which led the attack and propaganda.

We did not know if they had WMDs or not, I'm almost positive their was no definite proof either way before we attacked. We could assume they did because we gave them those weapons in the Iraqi-Iranian war and we didn't think they used them all on their own people (which is another difference between Iraq and Germany).

Either way, we should not have gone into Iraq because we thought they had chemical weapons and we have to question whether we should attack a country just because they have WMDs anyways.