Motives for Bush's War on Iraq

The reasons put forward by Blair and Bush ("Saddam is an evil dictator who must be stopped because he will give WMD to terrorists) are disputed elsewhere on this web.

Suggested underlying motives are listed here. Later, they will be expanded:

1. Displaced revenge for 9/11
2. Revenge for personal threats against George Bush Sr by Saddam Hussein.
3. Oil
4. Form a buffer state for Israel
5. Contracts for reconstruction firms
6. Contracts for the arms Industry
7. Uphold the value of the dollar against the Euro (SH was planning to sell Iraqi oil using euros, rather than the dollar) (More)
8. Further the aims of the New American Century policy group