Did Bush manipulate Iraq data?

[Occhidiangela]

EDIT: Grr, such a typing spazz.

At root, it is a religious war, or at the very least an ethnic war: Arab versus Jew, particularly immigrant European Jew. Other elements are Arab versus Arab, Arab versus Persian, and Arab Muslim versus Arab Christian.

It roots can still be traced to
Balfour, and his French and Italian colleagues who redrew the Map of the Old Ottoman Empire.

It still boils down to the existence of the State of Israel, yes or no, which is a religious/ethnic issue. That is what a root cause analysis will show.

Now, to add a few layers of complexity . . .

Soviet Support of nationalist movements for some 50 years. (Note also that the Sov's were one of the FIRST to recognize Israel in 1947.)

The creation of an Islamic Republic, an expansionist and nationalist model at odds with godless Communism and the Muslim world's status quo of 1979.

The Arab tendency to get their arses handed to them in any exercise in modern warfare.