Do u rember why we went to iraq the 2nd time???

Question

i do!! and i think if u dont or if u think it is bad then u r not an american!!

Answer 1

All of us might not remember but i bet there are 3000 + families that had relatives that died in 911 that remember everyday when their loved one dosen't come home.

Answer 2

Fear.

We found some connections to Iraq from our campaign in Afghanistan and Saddam would not cooperate with weapons inspectors anymore. He picked a bad time to bluster; it drove us crazy with fear.

Keep in mind the Arabs weren't too crazy about this guy; he posed a threat to their oil fields. Maybe not right away, but look at all the money Saddam got through the 'Oil for Food' program; creepy.

Kim Il Jung is a similar problem, but nestled next to China he knows he is safe. Hopelly he will pass away soon, he's pretty old.

Answer 3

Yes. We originally went there to disarm Iraq from their supposed inventory of WMDs, and to (cough cough rolls eyes) liberate the people of Iraq from their dictator who the Bush administration insinuated was harboring Al Qaida terrorists.

In fact, Iraq was only guilty of not cooperating with UN weapons inspectors. I recall in the early parts of 2003, just before the war, with Colin Powell going before the UN stating that there were mobile chemical weapons stations, and how many of these weapons were now being stored underground in storage tanks, and in other underground storage and production facilities.

It makes no sense, speaking as a veteran, why they only did the job 50% in Afghanistan, then decide to go into Iraq. Tactically speaking, it really makes no sense. The US had a policy during the cold war to be able to fight a two front war between Russia and China. Since the fall of the USSR, the US has had to make plenty of changes to its military strategy. But the US will never tru to actively get rid of North Korea, who within the next 5-10 years can realistically have missiles with a range capable of reaching as far as the the east coast. But we wont even bother to go to war with them because war is good business for the US.

Think of it like this. If we got rid of all the bad guys in the world, and everyone was pacified, no more wars, etc... Companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, BP, etc... would very easily go belly up. Because we dont have much of a need for them.

Bush has a very active interest in whats going on in the middle east. But the people decided to vote him back in again, shame on everyone who did. There are almost 2500 dead servicemen and women who wish he was never voted into office to begin with.

Answer 4

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/

Some images are worth a thousand words.

Remember the 1980's? When the US government armed and supported Saddam Hussein while providing weapons to the Iranians at the same time?
In the 1980's, Saddam Hussein was gassing his kurdish population. This was a well-known fact, in the US, in Iraq, and elsewhere. But the US kept providing weapons to Iraq and supporting the Iraqui regime with CIA intelligence. Saddam Hussein only became an enemy of the US in 1990, after he decided to nationalize Iraq's oil fields and pursue a nationalist economic policy.
Pull your head out of your as*s. The US does not give a crap about democracy, it only seeks to protect the bussiness interests of large corporation lobbies that support both the republican and democrat parties with large money donations.

Just as you did in the past, your country still supports and implants countless of pro-free-market puppet dictatorships today (see Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Pakistan, US-backed coup attempt against Venezuela, Qatar, the UAE, etc.)...
If democracy is soooo important, why doesn't the US government speak against Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, both brutal dictatorships that rival with Saddam in terms of repression and brutality? Why doesn't the US speak against Khaddaffi anymore? Is it maybe, because he's as dictatorial as always, but has decided to privatize his country's economy and move away from a planned system?
More importantly, why doesn't the US judge past officials such as Kissinger, for the terrible crimes against humanity they've commited? We've lost 30,000 innocent people here in Argentina during the 1976-83 dictatorship, yet I don't see the US apologizing for the support they gave to our local dictators, for the CIA "black lists" that they passed to our local death squads, for the Ford factories loaned to use as illegal detaining centers, or for the help they gave to the numerous coup d'etats that my country has suffered in the past.

Open your eyes. It's all about bussiness interests. It has always been about bussiness interests. The media in your country are nothing more than corporate monopolies that are owned by the same people that also profit from this war... it's only natural that they will try to brainwash you to support it as well.

Stick to surfing until you've grown up a little, girl.

Answer 5

No, we supposedly went in there because W said Iraq wasn't complying with the UN resolutions (about weapons of mass distruction), and he wanted to take matters into our hands to protect us from his aggression.

As it turned out later, he knew darn well they didn't actually have any WMDs, and we also learned that the whole thing was a fabrication.

And if you think I'm not an American, you're a dope.

Answer 6

Don't make stupid statements about being American and all that crap. You don't have any clue except to follow the herd. What makes you think you are a better American anyway?

We went in to get oil. Bush and his administration had an agenda to go after Saddam even before Bush got into office. Read PNAC and you will see. Why didn't we go after Kim in North Korea or why didn't we go after Syria and Iran. The only reason we went after Saddam was he was an easy target.

Answer 7

Still trying to figger it out. We were told Iraq had nukes. We were told Iraq was working hand in hand with al Qaeda (and therefore by implication was at fault for 9/11). When those reasons didn't resonate with the public, we were told that we were enforcing a UN resolution, even tho Iraq claimed to have no WMD (and in fact used no WMD to protect its regime from our illegal invasion and no WMD have been found in 3 years since).

Finally, to assuage the guilt of the war cheerleaders, they give us: "We rid the world of a tyrant (or, option B)/we have brought freedom to Iraqis (the ones we haven't killed "collaterally," that is).

Leaving aside the other tyrants and nations possessing or trying to possess nukes, I would settle for knowing the standard by which success in Iraq can be measured, so we will know when we've "won."

If that makes me "not american" in your eyes, I can live with that. Fool.

Answer 8

US went to Iraq under the pretext that Iraq was stockpiling weapons and that they were accountable for 9/11. But this was just the lie they told the people. US went to war with Iraq for OIL. Grow up and learn that all governments, especially yours, are corrupt and only make decisions that will fill their pockets.

Answer 9

wow you have terrible grammer and you don't know how to spell and think about what you just said "If you think going to Iraq is bad you are not an American" EXCUSE ME what is so joyous about war? What is so wonderful about people dying every freakin day? What is so great about our troops living in the conditions that they are living in because of some psycho twisted terrorist? You need to think before you through a stupid statement out there like that!

Answer 10

According to the Bush administration, the reasons we went to Iraq the second time keep changing. War on terror? WMD's? Oust Saddam? I wish they'd make up their mind. In the meantime, we now have Iraqis killing each other. What an awful, bloody mess!

Answer 11

We went there to free opressed people from a dictator and to stop terrorism in it tracks. It seems to be working there have not been any more attacks on our soil since our president took the fight to them putting aside what people thought and doing the right thing. And hey we killed one of the al Qaeda's head guys not too long ago and have captured several others that have given us very helpfull intell.