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The real reason was probably that Saddam was a PITA to deal with,
and viewed as a repressive dictator...
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The real US reason was that Saddam was giving $25,000 to families
whose sons were a suicide bombers, and he was being praised as a hero
in the Palestinian press. This pissed off Rumsfeld and Cheney.
They easily convinced GWB to get the a victory in a war they felt his father had not finished.
The rest was propaganda fed to the US public.