Maybe , the reason Bush chose a WAR on Iraq , was to gain more Executive Power?

Question

How many times has he went for more executive power after he invaded Iraq

Answer 1

He is an opportunist, so you have to give him credit in that regards. You have to look at his strategy and his ability to pick and choose his battles to make everything go his way as much as possible.

The invasion of Iraq was a diversion from capturing Bin Laden and an opportunity to knock something else off his to-do list in the meanwhile, (since Saddam had threatened Bush senior and threatened our oil resources). Bin Laden is and has been on the Pakistani side of the Afghan-Paki border in the northwestern tribal region of Pakistan since November/2001. Just read any non U.S. newspaper and you will see that everyone knows this, we just have not taken the steps to capture him. We will not go there to get him because we have a corrupt alliance with Pakistan, which by the way explains why we granted them rights to nuclear weapons. (This is interesting considering only 6 nations have that right, and Pakistan has only been a country about 60 years.) Anyhow, we went into Iraq to exercise our frustration with being terrorized on another Arab country to satisfy the vengeance of the nation. Obviously the reasons we gave for invasion, such as WMD, were not true. But the conflict of Iraq was not all wrong, because everyone agrees that Saddam deserves to die. However we actually have kept him alive and prolonged his trial/punishment and have instead killed Iraqi civilians and sacrificed U.S. soldiers along the way. We have kept Saddam Hussein alive and in confinement mainly to try to infuriate other middle eastern countries and dare them to strike at us, which has now fueled a civil war in Iraq.

While all this has gone on, the only countries that really had an active part in hurting America were Pakistan and Saudia Arabia, since it was their citizens and governments that funded and created the Taliban and Al Qaeda. But these nations are our closest allies in the middle east and South Asia! Go figure!

So in a nutshell, to answer your question, yes, to gain more executive power, and to fool Americans that we're doing something right when in fact the perpetrators are just getting richer by the day, so we are being fooled for our ignorance.


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< The Taliban would not allow opium production. Now it is 50% of Afghanistan's economic output.>>


WRONG. The taliban were created after Afghanistan defeated Russia, (by our friendly nation PAKISTAN), and Pakistan was heavily funded with US help. This explains why the Taliban were mostly pakistani's and a handful of afghans. This is a major media misconception. Also the opium production was another way you were fooled by CNN, because what the Taliban did was they stopped public production of opium and made it legal to have their neo conservative government produce it at a mass level to fund their militia and not report it as part of their GNP... hence explaining why the instant they were removed the influx of opium just exploded! Because the people just took back the land they had been robbed of and continued production to make a livng. Again, when even anti-war advocates don't know the cold facts, then how are we ever going to figure out what our U.S. leaders are really doing?? So Bush is really doing a good job of getting his way. Brilliant. Peace.

Answer 2

There are a lot of reasons for this war and I don't think we will ever know most of them.

I do know this is the longest three week war I've ever seen.

Saddam Hussein only allowed his own kind of terrorists (The Republican Guard.) and their job was to terrorize Iraqi citizens and possibly nearby countries. Of course he needed to be stopped, but this administration went about it completely wrong.

The authorized budget just for this year, for the war in Iraq, is 94.5 billion. If that much money were spent on the search for Bin Laden he would already be in a New York jail.

Russia tried for ten years to defeat The Taliban in Afghanistan--they finally just quit and went home.
The Taliban would not allow opium production. Now it is 50% of Afghanistan's economic output.

That is only a little bit of the truth, but I still hear on the news how well we are doing in both Afghanistan and Iraq.

The true agenda of this administration probably has more to do with oil than terrorism but we will never know.

Answer 3

He chose a war on Iraq and Afghanistan because terrorists chose to blow up innocent people in the US. And also because of Sadaam Husein who has killed so many innocent people and needed to be dethroned! Iraq is better of without him. There was also the corrupt oil for food program that the UN had which proved that France and Russia along with others were doing things illegally with Iraq and Sadaam.

Answer 4

ok, Romack merely proved that righties have low IQs. Cindy Sheehan lost her son in 2004 so her voice wasn't heard until eventually after Bush attacked Iraq. the first Iraq conflict became all started because Saddam invaded Kuwait. This modern-day one became all started in protecting with lies and fabrications by utilizing the Bush junta.

Answer 5

I think you are on the right track. The Iraq war had many benefits for his buddies too.

Answer 6

He is power crazy! That and he wants rights to more oil. Think his family money came from oil. Duh!