Why did people swallow Bush's rational for the Iraq war?

Question

This whole event seems strange to me. To say I told you so to people isn't satisfying because a lot of people died. I never believed that there were usable WMD's there, I never believed that saddam and Al Qaeda worked together (one is a secularist and the other is a religious extremest). When Bush started telling everyone that the metal tubes found in Iraq were for WMD I didn't believed him because the IAEA said that they were for conventional rockets. When Bush said that Iraq tried to get uranium from Nigeria I didn't believed him. He even had Powell give the UN forged documents trying to prove a link. The UN was like "wow." It was such a poor job that the UN thought it couldn't have been intentional. The document's signature was from a person not in office when it was dated & the letter head was also from another time. Bush kept repeating disproven stuff over and over. He was either lying or really dumb. Was it "group think", blind patriotism, or something else that blinded us.

Saddam even offered to Bush that he could send over 1000 FBI agents to look for WMD's. That's about as close as you get to having the leader of a country hold up his hands.

If there is evidence that Al Qaeda was in Iraq it doesn't mean that Saddam was working with them. That's like saying that Bush and Timmothy McVeigh were partners in oklahoma.

Answer 1

You are falling into a trap that millions of others have fallen into. Questioning whether or not Saddam had WMDs or not. And throwing the whole case behind that toward whether or not we should or should not go to war with another country.

Here are some questions that should be asked before attacking any country:
Has that country attacked us?
Has that country attempted to attack us?
Has that country made any indication that they intend to perhaps attack us?

The answer to these questions with Iraq were no, no and no.

WMDs are a smoke screen and millions fell for it.

Answer 2

Because it was all true. There were usable stockpiles of WMD, most notably sarin-b. Numerous documents have been found showing an even greater link between Saddam and al-Qaeda than was previously thought, and the British intelligence still stand by their report that Saddam had sought uranium, which was, incidentally, also supported circumstantially by Joseph Wilson's report to the CIA.

The only 'forged' document was a bogus document written by Joseph Wilson to support his NYT debut in attacking the President. The Bush administration did not use forged documents.

Remember, if you get your 'facts' from people pushing an agenda, you will not be getting the truth.

Answer 3

Because the media is controlled by the government, and the corperations at this point, and the reports were slanted to sway the publics opinion. The government has "Think Tanks", groups of highly specialized, very well trained behavioral therapist, psychiatrists, and psychologists who's job is to help sway public opinion through movies, commercials, news reports, etc. They get paid big money to make sure you go along with the "Party Line" so to speak. Annenberg/CPB is just such a group, responsible for what is shown on "public" television. The same groups that fought a psychological war against the enemy in 'Nam is now being turned on the population of the United States. Look it up for yourself if you think I'm wrong :) The one time Iraq had dealings with terrorists was Abu MIdel, who went to Iraq for protection. The Iraqi Secret police gunned him down. So, there was no tie between Iraq and the terrorist, You are right in that assumption.

Answer 4

Don't be too quick to judge. On the surface before you look closely at it, it made sense. Saddam Hussein stood up to America once before and during the years in between the two wars in the Middle East Saddam repeatedly said he would stand against America again. He had weapons in the past and refused Hans Blix (UN weapons inspector) entry into many places that could have held weapons. And at the time we didn't know where the terrorists might attack next and we were afraid, Bush offered what sounded like the best chance to stop the attack. Americans went with a bet that sounded like a sure thing and it happened to come against us, whether Bush believed that bet too or was just playing on our fears and educated guesses on Saddam's behavior is for each person to decide on their own.

Answer 5

Saddam was a cancer on our world that needed to be removed. Now he is gone and once the government is stable over there then we can bring our troops home. Then we won't have any troops in Saudi Arabia and we can get out of that part of the world as much as possible. Saddam violated the cease fire for the 1991 gulf war hundreds of times by shooting at our planes patrolling the no fly zone established by that cease fire. In fact if Saddam had not invaded Kuwait in 1990 then none of this would be happening.

Answer 6

To stay optimistic that our elected officials are not as stupid as they appear by believing the load of bull that was fed them I have to believe that it was group think. But as far as the average American, a lot that still do believe what Bush said, they are either just too lazy, ignorant, or just plain stupid to see the plain truth when it is right in front of them. Now before everyone goes jumping down my throat, I did not say ALL Americans. I know that there were many who did question what was being said, and a big applause for those true patriots that dared to question the "facts".

Answer 7

Bush went into Iraq for 1 reason and that was to avenge his Daddy. His Daddy wasn't able to get Hussain, so he figured he'd finish the job. He just had to justify to the American people a reason for it, who cares if it was made up. He was gonna get the job done for Daddy Bush.

Answer 8

A lot of Americans feel it is unpatriotic to speak out against your president. Americans feel that if the president says it then we must believe him and not question his motives.

Answer 9

People who believed it are ill informed idiots who believe anything the western media want to sell them.People should research more unbiased sources before they come to any conclusions.

Answer 10

fear won the vote. They will use the same tactic in the next election. I ask you, how many times were you called un-American for questioning? Personally, many.