Replying to a message of Phil Payne to All:

 PP> From: Phil Payne 

 PP> http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,967548,00.html

 PP> "In reality, a "huge" reason for the conflict was to
enable the US to
 PP> withdraw its troops from Saudi Arabia, [Wolfowitz] said"

 PP> Wasn't that one of bin Laden's key demands?

 PP> Was Iraq attacked to facilitate appeasing bin Laden?

Of course not.  It was to get Saddam out of the way so bin Laden (and/or
his supporters/adherents) can establish a caliphate in Baghdad in order to
unite the Muslim world against the west in general and the US in
particular.

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