Why President Bush went to war with Iraq

The whole article criticizes the Bush Administration for waging war in Iraq. Doherty believes that the reason that we waged war was because of 3 reasons: oil, Israel, and military transformation. I always thought the U.S. went to war in order to combat against dangerous forces. However after reading different articles such as this one, my mind is beginning to think of different reasons why we went to war with Iraq. Out of the 3 reasons stated by Doherty, the oil issue sounds the most reliable. I don't think for the two other reasons, we would risk thousands of lives of young Americans. If we wanted to strengthen our relationship with Israel, we could attacked the other Middle Eastern countries that want to eliminate Israel. The third reason was very confusing to understand. Oil is something that the President Bush would risk for because the U.S. was so dependent on oil. As we were desperate for more oil and noticed that oil in Iraq was not exploited, we decided to invade Iraq and take control of some oil. Doherty pointed out when necessity and opportunity came, we took action and waged war. 9/11 and the whole terrorism issue could have been the decoy for going into Iraq. Eliminating Saddam Hussein was the decoy in this war and our addiction to oil seems like the main reason why the U.S. ever went to war with Iraq.