Condoleezza Rice: Iraq is not invaded to bring democracy to him History of edits:: 2017/5/12 9:48 • 117 times readable [Oan- follow - up]  acknowledged Condoleezza Rice, US national security adviser under former President George W. Bush, on Thursday evening, the real reason behind taking the US decision to invade Iraq in 2003. Rice said at a meeting held at the Brookings Institution, said that America invaded Iraq in 2003 to topple the ousted president, Saddam