please... someone... tell me a reason other than "sadaam's bad" why we ever INVADED iraq?

Question

dont say wmd's... there are none
dont say to establish a democracy... most of them dont want our constitution shoved down their throats

sven- my "mommy" has been dead for 13 years and i dont live with my "daddy" anymore. i moved out about 7 months ago. also, if i am a broken record, why do you keep reading my posts? you must like my salty nuts or something. i havent read one thing intelligent from you, only attempted "shots" at me. just pretend its all ok, buddy.

ok we got attacked and we WERE confused. why are we still there?

Answer 1

That, Sir, is the 100 Billion Dollar Question, only the Bush Administration knows for sure, and they are not telling us the truth. The man keeps himself in utter isolation these days.

Scripps Howard columnist Ann McFeatters writes: "To Bush, being
president means never having to say he's sorry. To tell him he might be wrong or bring him bad news or cause dissonance in his serene world is to antagonize him and be thought disloyal.

"It's now well acknowledged that Bush is happy in his bubble of self- imposed isolation. He meets with foreigners but without true give-and- take even in crisis conversations. Foreigners visit the White House as they used to go on bended knee to ancient Rome. Bush travels but sees few real people. All is scripted. He talks with advisers but rarely interacts with members of Congress, even senior Republicans.

"He seems to care nothing about winning hearts and minds in other countries. Foreign leaders say he lectures but does not listen. He does not have the long telephone conversations late at night that former President Clinton loved to keep him in touch with what others were thinking. He seems indifferent experts ....

Answer 2

One thing no one has mentioned is that, back when the US sold arms to Iraq in the Iraq/Iran war, the US sold them and taught them how to build certain weapons. No WMDs? The better question is, where did they go, as the US government is holding the receipts and can't find them now. Better yet, if the UN was doing their job, and due to corruption that is now questionable, why didn't they find them?

As for oil......LMAO. Sitting less then 500 miles from one of the largest reserves in the world and it is already pipelined into the US. If the US was only after oil, they only had to look north where Canadian and US companies are just starting to tap the oil sands.

Finally, as one figured showed, under Saddam over 1 million Iraqi's were killed by his forces. Let's ask them if the US should have invaded earlier?

Answer 3

All of you who are anti-war because it's popular need to do some reading and THINK!!
This is what the President of Iraq had to say - "THANK YOU"
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007289

Sanctions against Iraq were NOT WORKING - because Saddam way buying off other "friendly" goverments
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110005818

We didn't give them "our constitution" (which you've probably never read) - they formed their own and voted, 8 MILLION of them! And the effect is changing the others in the area also! (albeit slowly)
Walid Jumblatt (the Druze leader and Lebanese parliamentarian) - "It's strange for me to say this, but this process of change has started because of the American invasion of Iraq. I was cynical about Iraq. But when I saw the Iraqi people voting three weeks ago, eight million of them, it was the start of a new Arab world. The Syrian people, the Egyptian people, all say that something is changing."

It was the right thing to do. Has it gone smoothly?No. Has the US done only good things? No. But I am very grateful we have the currently problems as opposed to Saddam still in power!

Answer 4

by technique of taking up the oil fields that could want to provide the firms that Bush is a puppet for, a significant area in the middle East to launch different attacks on different oil wealthy countries. The above answer is established for protection stress brass...seem on the approach for prevailing instead of why we are battling. Neither are threats from a 2 bit dictator a good reason to create the demise of a 1/2 million human beings. Bus reported he might want to bypass in no remember what the UN determined. He merely got here across adequate "allies" in the UN to make the determination. The UN sanctions were a ploy to get human beings on the area of Bush's devious plan

Answer 5

So you think Saddam was good? Do you think Iran should obey any UN sanctions against developing nukes but Saddam can ignore any UN sanctions he wants. I admit the UN is toothless but how could anyone argue for a political solution, to anything, when Saddam would not obey UN sanctions or the conditions of HIS surrender? We are also fighting Alqeda in Iraq right now, that is far better than fighting them here with our civilians. The military is far better at fighting Alqeda militia than civilians are at fighting Alqeda terrorist. By the way, having democracy "shoved down your throat" is very difficult. They could vote the their old bath party in any time.

Answer 6

Because the last of the oil is more important than the 30,000+ civilian lives taken in Iraq, as a direct result.

It is not okay to use embryos to find cures for diseases, but it is okay to kill people who are already living and breathing and feel pain and fear for a democracy they don't even want.

We chose a country that had no proof of having wmd's and had been at peace for 250 years.

01.20.09, can't wait.

Answer 7

Because Bush wanted to, because his daddy wanted to.

But apparently according to other people on here we did because Saddam might have maybe one day gotten wmd's....maybe. So we should attack a whole bunch of other countries too because they could maybe possibly get wmd's too, plus there are some other leaders that are bad too. But maybe they dont' have oil so it's ok.

Answer 8

Many reasons...Halliburton, Exxon, Boeing, and the list of corporate contributors to the dictatorial right to long to post is the reason. Not some minuscule amount of sarin that the conservative dumbasses want you to hear about. Oh I know that they say Saddam was a bad guy but there are lots of them in this world maybe the right wing should worry about domestic issues and not lining the pockets of their POLITICAL CONTRIBUTORS.

Answer 9

Long story short...The UN kicked his *** and we kept kicking it untill he agreed to sign a cease fire agreement. It was full of things he promised to do to convince us to take the uncle Sam sized boot from his ***. Once we left the area he broke his word, we never ended the 1st war!!! We simply signed a cease fire agreement...not a peace treaty. He broke his word, we kicked his *** again.This time in a manner that would preclude his ability to lie again. Sorry for the run on sentence.

Answer 10

we didnt know whether or not there were weapons of mass destruction at the time, and anyone can play monday morning quarterback. I wont touch that anyway. The reason why is because the U.S. was attacked, and it hit us hard. We didnt know who did it but we sure didnt want to wait and let them attack us again. We had to take action to save the lives of innocent civillians. As for our troops, my prayers are with them, but keep in mind it was their choice to join the military, they were willing to put themselves in danger. God bless them.