The Iraq War--mainly a 2004 Bush campaign strategy

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/051308a.html

This is a fact, though Hannity will likely deny it. It is, however, the blunt truth.
But even if this corroboration had not taken place, it is clear to me that Bush's political wing, which had sway over everything he did, also was pre-eminent in the planning of the attack and occupation of Iraq.

The point was to bulldoze low-information voters into seeing Bush as having avenged 9/11, and thereby to bring about an historic landslide in 2004 which would have given Bush the "political capital" to truly advance his domestic agenda of rolling back the New Deal.
Bear in mind, his first initiative after "re-election" was to vainly attempt to “privatize,” i.e., END, Social Security.

Well, if he had actually had the "political capital" he bragged about after barely squeaking by on election day 2004 by less than two percent (the lowest re-election percentage by any president since Woodrow Wilson in 1916), he probably would have succeeded in castrating Social Security, and would have gone into Republican history (as opposed to actual history) as the man who redressed the "evil socialist" New Deal, and thereby restored "freedom" to America.

Bottom line: Bush knew Iraq had zero to do with the security of the United States. And Bush also knew that a quick kill in Iraq would trick huge numbers of uninformed voters into thinking he had saved them and saved the USA.

EVERY single U.S. soldier AND every single Iraqi civilian who has been killed since March 20, 2003, died because they were sacrificed to Karl Rove's "re-election" strategy for Bush in 2004.

Maybe with a Dem president?