If not for terrorism, then why?

Question

If the Iraq war was not to fight terrorism on a global scale, then give me a VALID logical reason of why we went to war.

and I did say IF...

Answer 1

"That man tried to kill my dad."
-President George W. Bush, Sept 2002

Answer 2

The Iraq war was planned by Cheney and Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz during the Clinton Administration. In fact they tried to get Clinton to invade. It was, and is, and will be about the oil. If you want to look at the success rate of our GWOT, just take a look at Afghanistan. The Taliban is now running 1/3 of the country almost with impunity. And the Afghan peoples are welcoming them back. We didn't finish a damn thing we set out to do in Afghanistan and now it's coming back on us. Look at Somalia. Islamic Extremists are threatening to overthrow the government there.

This is a new type of war. A war that can't be fought by guns and bombs and invasions. This is a war about peoples well being. Why have the Taliban made such strong strides in Afghanistan? Because they're bringing stability to the region. They bring the rule of law.

If you look at the statistics for the places where extremism is on the rise, you can see that those places are very insular and have high rates of unemployment. These people have nothing better to do and have families to support. A lot of it isn't about idealogy. It's simple economics. And THAT is where we need to fight this war.

And for those of you that say it was us liberals that tied Saddam and Al Qaeda together, please go back on listen to what YOUR president said. It was the Administration that implied that they were linked.

Answer 3

Economic interests, we take over Iraq we have more control over oil, that in turn generates huge profits which keeps us as a super power. Do you know how much oil china buys a day? If we had direct control over distribution we would be unstoppable. MAn wake up its all about who's got the fattest bank account and people will die because of it! Don't believe the media because its all smoke and mirrors, be smart, we could give a crap about democracy (its a front) we are a greedy nation which depends on future income to stay at the top. Valid or not thats the reason why!

Answer 4

It was about terrorism!!! Saddam was housing terrorists and promoting them for years! He has made numerous threats to America and ruined his own country(not to mention the possibility that he may have had WMAs which some people here say they just found them)! The most common mistake liberals make is that they try to convince people that Saddam and Osama were in this thing together. THEY WEREN'T!!! Afghanistan was to take out al Queida and Iraq was to protect us from further attacks from others who do the same kind of tihng...TERRORISM!!!! If it wasn't for people like you, we may have been outta there by now.

Answer 5

it was a terrorist safe place and also to search for WMD's...which were there but are probibly in Syria or somewhere else after the march towards Bagdad began...

Oil money was paying for terrorism while the iraqi people lived hand to mouth, and saddam lived like a fat cat.

Answer 6

Oil

Answer 7

... no one seems to know...

there are no real links to terrorism in Iraq (much less than the vast majority of the other nations in the middle east)... so it's clearly not that if you look into it...

Answer 8

There is none....of course some people will say it was to find WMD's but that's a load of crap. He wanted Sadaam and he got him by any means necessary. How Machiavellian of him

Answer 9

Secure oil profits and gain political capital.

Answer 10

To protect our interests in middle eastern oil.

Answer 11

I don't care what it was for, I am just glad Saddam, Uday, Quasi, and some of the Al-Queda leaders are dead.