Bush's rationale of success.

• Author: Merry, Robert W.
• Position: Debating Democracy - George W. Bush - Excerpt

THE QUESTION of what actually fueled George W. Bush's determination to invade Iraq continues to generate debate four years after the tanks rolled in. Was it really about WMD and the presumed nexus between Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda? Was it about the heady dream of transforming the Middle East through the exportation of Western-style democracy? Was it ultimately about oil, with those other rationales serving merely as smokescreens? Was it all part of a...