If Bush lied to get us into war?

Question

If Bush lied to get us into a war that he thought was the right thing to do, would you support that? In other words, if Bush saw war in Iraq as the right thing to do but the only way to get support was to lie, do you support that?

Answer 1

Of course he lied. If he told us the truth we wouldn't have supported it.
Do you think if the President went to Congress and asked them for a 10-15 year troop commitment to make Iraq a democracy, trillions of dollars in costs and thousands of lives lost , Congres would have said Yes ? Of course not.
So he fabricated a story about Iraq not only having WMDs but those WMDs posed an immenent threat to the United States. A very good reason to start a war The problem is that
Iraq never had weapons of mass desruction. How can i be so sure ? Because they never used them. Think about it .You have the most powerful nation on earth [ who by the way DOES have weapons of mass destruction ]bombing the crap out of your capital city on a regular basis , you possess WMDs AND YOU DON"T USE THEM ? Nonsense. If you have the weapon you use it.

Answer 2

The president did not lie to get us into war. and WMD's which people think he did lie about was only 1 of 13 reasons we went to war. But people seem to forget the other 12 reasons...how soon we forget. We knew he had WMD's we asked him to tell us what he did with them. he choose not to. We now know that Russia moved weapons from Iraq to Lebanon just before the invasion into Iraq. We also know that tons of weapons were destroyed in Lebanon the first year of the war, We also know that over 500 missiles containing chemical weapons, the ones we were after all along, were found in Iraq. We also know that Saddam (by his own words) was trying to make everyone think he had more then he did. therefore he was the one doing the lying. The WORST THING THE PRESIDENT MAY HAVE DONE, WAS BELIEVE A LIE. but he believed the intelligence reports and said we could not wait till Saddam attacked an American city before we did something. I do support the President and the troops in this war. and the president is correct in letting the Generals running this war make the decisions. US Generals have never lost a war, only presidents and senators pulling troops from Vietnam have ever lost a war.

Answer 3

Nope. Iraq is headed for a civil war. Thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians have died. The entire region has destabilized. Nothing good has come out of the Iraqi war, only death, pain, suffering and economic hardship. Bush ignored the warnings and chose to launch a campaign based on circumstantial evidence. What a putz.

Answer 4

If Bush felt the war was the right call for American interests, then he should make that call, stick with his guns and face the consequences of his actions, for better or worse. If he had been more truthful, his approval would not have been as low as it is now.

Democracy needs truthful leaders in order for people to make informed decisions.

Just like Clinton should not have lied under oath. I don't care about his extramarital flings and the dirty money scandals, he just should not have lied.

Being silent about wrong doing is just as bad that would be Al Gore as VP.

Answer 5

Lies to commence a warfare (presuming that there have been even any lies) is a much cry diverse than attempting to thoroughly isolate the established public from the options being made in Congress. Obama's administration and Congress have reached a thoroughly new factor of fascist form administration those previous few weeks/months. On acceptable of each of the secrecy is the middle factor that the final public of the established public at present does no longer favor this style of health care expenditures in Congress and yet Congress keeps pushing even extra sturdy and tries to maintain it further and extra hidden from the established public.

Answer 6

He didn't lie. the Army intellegence was not 100% conclusive like most things in war. War is not perfect and predictible you can't be mad at him for for acting on what was given to him. And anyway congress votes every 90 days to keep troops in Iraq, so if you should get mad, get mad at them. Anyway even if he did lie I would still support our president as any American should.

Answer 7

ha ha so funny, i never supported bush or any of his actions. I believe this war was for the wrong reasons and I wouldn't be suprised he lied seeing as he just really wanted the rights to the oil anyway.

Answer 8

If it was the only right thing to do then why are yo mad. I'm not a liberal or a conservative, although i don't see anything wrong with Bush. The middle east was under tyranny by a horrible unforgiving asshole and we helped, a lot. And dont say we if your not in thee military, or in support of the country.

Answer 9

No I still would not support a deliberate lie. I would feel duped and manipulated.

I can understand not disclosing the entire strategy to the general population in order to keep the enemy from preempting the US, but to intentionally mislead a bunch of people into believing something that is not true in order to get what you want accomplished - wrong!

Answer 10

Who cares??? The irony of it is that he got rid of the Talibans (Iran's enemy), got rid of Saddam (another one of Iran's enemies) and has literally handed Iraq and Afghanistan over to Iran on a silver platter, without Iran having to lose one soldier or one dime. And what's more, he supports the current Israeli war, which allows Iran to divert attention from their nuclear program and will in the end create public Lebanese support for Hezbollah (thanks to Israel's aggressive stupidity). With his disparaging remarks during the elections in Iran, he indirectly helped out the hardliners, since many people voted for that prick Ahmadinejad out of defiance to Bush's remarks. If I were a hardline Mullah, I would put a pin on my robe saying, "I luv Bush"!!!!!

Answer 11

i don´t support that because if he is really getting us in war then he is killing many inocent people. i have family that say he ordered his people to take down the twin towers. if that is true then it is not fair and he is a great actor to lie to us. thank god he can´t run for president again. but remember everyone may have a different opinion.