2006-07-27 05:51:48 · 10 answers · asked by toweroftusks 2 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
It was dumb. As a country, the USA did not have to like how Saddam was running Iraq, but it was not our role to do something about it. Weapons inspections were working - they were keeping any weapons program off balance. Saddam was a bandit - stealing from his own people to build palaces not weapons. A much smarter move would have been to call the UN to account on how it was running the "Oil for Food" program.
2006-07-27 06:05:13 · answer #1 · answered by Paul K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all... what ulterior motives??? you mean going for oil??? oh that must be why it costs 3 bucks a gallon at the pump...
Basically we are in Iraq for several reasons... none of them being about oil which is probably what you were getting at...
1) To get rid of Hussein and his regime, which we did...
2) To help the country become powerful enough so that it can be able to rid itself of militants and terrorists which have been harbored there for some while...
3) To destroy other parts of Al Queda...
4) To destroy any other militant groups that pop up...
and so on and so on...
so do i think it was dumb? no... do it think it was the best idea? no... do i think it was a mistake? no... was it the best timing? probably not...
2006-07-27 13:01:32 · answer #2 · answered by freedom_isnt_free1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought old man Bush, the first one, did one of the very sharpest moves ever by liberating Kuwait but NOT going in to Baghdad. It left Saddam Hussein weakened, but still a strong counterbalance to Iran. Plus we did not need to occupy Iraq, tying our military down. It was a totally brilliant move, it accomplished many useful goals. Then the son comes along and well the rest as they say is history. I don't see any good way out of this.
2006-07-27 12:58:29 · answer #3 · answered by jxt299 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What i bet you did not here, due to the liberal media, was that recently they did find weapons of mass distruction. This, on top of the fact that Iraq was lead by a dictator who was starving his people, oppressing women, and was paying families of suicide bombers money for a year. This money was for food. Because of Sadaam, the oldest man of a family would be a suicide bomber, just so his family could survive for another year. He was evil, and deserved to be dethroned. True, they did go in on debateable intelligence, in my opinion, they are fighting a just war. Anyone who says that we went in for oil is just ignorant. In the first place, we did not get but a small percentage of our total oil from Iraq, and that still holds presently. We get most of our oil from South America, and some from Saudi Arabia. Soon, we will be getting most of it from ANWR, where there are billions of untapped gallons of oil in Alaska. This drilling will not hurt the environment, even though democrats and tree huggers would have you believe it would hurt the porcupine carribu (which when there was a test line, actually encourage said carribu to mate, and their numbers went up not down).
2006-07-27 12:59:41 · answer #4 · answered by tim mcdonald 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do you know the only reason you were able to ask ?'s like this is because we do invade places like IRAQ? Has everyone forgotten why we are the land of the FREE? stop hugging trees and get with the patriotic devotion to your leader and his beliefs!! He is trying to PROTECT us from terrorists and people like Al Quaida or Saddam. Man these are TERRORISTS They do not "talk" out their problems...they want to take over the world. Why shouldn't we stand up for ourselves????
2006-07-27 13:15:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God knows why it had to be done. I feel it's good that we have troops over there just in case they are needed for something else. Saddam whoisinsane said he is Nebuchadnezzar resurrected, and Iraq is Babylon in the bible. Don't be surprised if in the future they change the name back.
2006-07-27 13:05:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. But warmongers never let matters of smart or dumb stop them.
Let's just find a way to hold the responsible parties accountable.
2006-07-27 12:54:50 · answer #7 · answered by nora22000 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.Bush says he wants to stop the war on terrorism but all he's doing is making the U.S.more vulnerable.If you ask me,Bush needs to be impeached.He only started this war so he couldn't be impeached and he seems like a hero.
2006-07-27 13:15:46 · answer #8 · answered by mz.newboots 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My theory, that I created (no plagarizing!!):
"All humans are idiots, but they're not always stupid."
Put bluntly (where you can understand it): Despite all intellegience, humans shall forever be idiots in common sense and denial and such.
But why listen to me? I'm just a 14-year-old girl... <--who knows enough.
2006-07-27 13:02:14 · answer #9 · answered by saturngirl_91 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you spend 400 billion a year on millitary and train people with guns, sooner or later it is going to be used.
Its nver justifiable despite all the claims and media.
2006-07-27 12:56:13 · answer #10 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋