] To build its case for war with Iraq, the Bush
] administration argued that Saddam Hussein had weapons of
] mass destruction, but some officials now privately
] acknowledge the White House had another reason for war
] %u2014 a global show of American power and democracy.

Officials now say they may not find hundreds of tons of mustard and nerve agents and maybe not thousands of liters of anthrax and other toxins. But U.S. forces will find some, they say. On Thursday, President Bush raised the possibility for the first time that any such Iraqi weapons were destroyed before or during the war.

If weapons of mass destruction were not the primary reason for war, what was?

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