Why did Bush attack Iraq? It wasn't for his amusement.

It was for far worse.

Bush knew they didn't have WMD. He wanted to get Saddam, and he obviously didn't care that he would be destroying a country and contributing to the death of nearly one million Iraqis.

He did it for his own ego and to benefit his friends.

From the day Bush lied to start the war to the day he sanctioned torture to his continued arrogance, he doesn't deserve blind or shut-one-eye respect.

Why he continues to subject the Iraqi people to an unnecessary tragedy is beyond comprehension, but it's not amusing.

I suspect members of Congress would be censured for saying Bush is sending our soldiers to get their heads blown off for power and profit. I'll even acknowledge decorum and say it may not be appropriate, but it's not wrong.

Bush's actions are illegal (and possibly criminal), but not amusing.

that he really thought, erroneously and misguidedly, that he could make Iraq the central battlefield for his war on terror. Don't know if he knew there were no WMD, but I think he thought he could lure AQ to Iraq and wipe them out.

US and foreign intell knew it. The IAEA knew it. He intentionally mislead the country to get the war he wanted.

And if he really thought that he could lure AQ in and destroy them, he's an idiot. He knew that AQ was in Afghanistan and Rummy watched OBL and other top AQ move to Pakistan. Rummy even called off the strike, when they were in our sites.

He didn't make honest mistakes. He committed war crimes for profiteers and power.

that isn't his motive.

Which makes Stark's statement even more tepid, doesn't it? And yet he was smacked down by his own people for stating the obvious (not in the word "amusement" but in the implication that Bush regime doesn't give fuck about soldiers, children, or anything other than bottom line of crony contracters).