This wasn't a "neocon" PNAC idea either, regardless of what the history-inept twoofers say. Clinton tried to sack Saddam for breaking the UN Security Council Resolutions while he was in office.
The Clintons and the Bushes are part of the same machine. So is Obama.
Remember when Cheney said Saddam wasn't worth many American lives back in '94? What event do you think changed his mind?
What makes you think he changed his mind? The US invaded Iraq largely because of oil.
It's also possible that the imperial warmongers were so deluded that they believed Iraq would be a cake walk.
