[Davros]

Well it was news to me that Rummy is Jewish - am I right in taking that as fact or not - there doesn't seem to be a lot of denial on that score. I knew about Wolfowitz and Perle and Fleischer already.

I still think it is a long bow to be drawing Desdicado. I don't think that that there was ever one single reason that stood out above the others. The conglomerate included :
* The existance of WOMD (the official reason we went to war)
* The liberating of the oppressed people (the reason that was later focussed on cos it played better to the masses)
* Saddam had been a thorn for long enough, and if someone is getting really really annoyed by a thorn they pull it out
* Oil - let's not delude ourselves that this wasn't on the list guys and gals - maybe it wasn't in thetop two or three, but people that want to ignore it totally as a reason are only fooling themselves
* Regional instability and the rise of religious fanatacism

Those aren't the only ones - there will be others and some will be honourable and some will be less so. Note that I don't include links to Al Queeda - the only ones thrown up by Colin Powell in his presentation to the UN were immediately debunked by the security services of the world the following day.