I have been trying to figure out why a muslim should think that the current action in Iraq is not, along with all the other alleged motives, also a cultural crusade. Our papers are filled with pictures of soldiers smoking cigarettes, playing cards with decks faced with near naked women (not at all offensive to muslims). And now, in a place where people are struggling to find water to drink, we find out that part of the $74 billion is to provide 500 gallon tanks of water so that… Well, go over to Sisyphus Shrugged to get the story and earlier sources.

Is it possible? Dwight Meredith provides a several arguments for a yes answer.

In this 1998 letter Rumsfeld, Perle, Wolfowitz and others call for regime change in Iraq and urge Clinton to undertake miltiary action

The only acceptable strategy is one that eliminates the possibility that Iraq will be able to use or threaten to use weapons of mass destruction. In the near term, this means a willingness to undertake military action as diplomacy is clearly failing. In the long term, it means removing Saddam Hussein and his regime from power.

even without UN Security Council support:

In any case, American policy cannot continue to be crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in the UN Security Council.

Bush’s boss has been after this for years.