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They may have looked for an excuse. Regardless, the excuse has to be plausible, and at the time, it was.
I'll tell you why the US was looking for any excuse to invade Iraq because they switched to selling their oil in euros in 2000 and were encouraging other nations to do the same, which would devalue the dollar and possibly lose its reserve currency status. Bush had plans to invade Iraq one way or the other eventually, especially when it came to affecting oil money.
Petrodollar Warfare