The motivations of those who are trying to influence us matters.

Saddam is mean to israel = so what?

Saddam has WMDs and is a really mean guy who does all this awful stuff = spend blood and treasure to go git him.

But if it was in the public consciousness that the REAL reason we were getting bombarded with reports about all of the awful stuff Saddam does is because Israel supporters wanted the US to get rid of him then maybe we wouldn't have been in that retarded war.