Why did the US invade Iraq when they didn't have any WMDs but North Korea does have them?

Answer 1

I read through some of the answers you have received thus far, and as much as it will chagrin those who gave you the answers, both sides are right on this issue. We KNOW that Iraq HAD WMDs in the 1980s (as late as 1988 he used them against the Kurds). That is a given. It is far too well documented. But ... the oil issue cannot be overlooked either. One of the things that Keven Philips points out in American Theocracy is that Iraq was going to cut a deal with China to basically give hem free access to Iraq's underdeveloped fields, and Bush had to halt this, too. Reality is kind of complex.

Answer 2

I think it only fair to say that the US had intelligence that suggested the possibility that Iraq had WMDs. The first country likely to be hit if Saddam decided to use them would have been Israel. Israel was no doubt worried about this potential threat. While oil was a factor, it was more likely just one of the factors considered in the decision to invade. North Korea has WMDs, but is likely under considerably pressure from China not to use them. They are also more likely to be using the threat to gain concessions rather than for military victory which they have to know would by impossible for them to achieve. The North Koreans are not religiously suicidal but practical. If Saddam had the WMDs, he was considered to be much more likely to use them against a country that we are not only close allies with, but also controls land that a majority of Americans consider holy. Also, the thought that Saddam could be removed and have Iraq made into a democracy friendly to American business interests, while naive, was compelling.

Answer 3

Iraq did have WMD's, and there is plenty of evidence. Iraq was invaded for a whole host of reasons. Look at the 14 UN resolutions.
Iraq is in the center of a problem area, with it's oil. The economies of the western world are at stake.
North Korea is nothing, has nothing and would be obliterated if they tried using nuclear weapons. The US and South Korea have 500,000 in the combined military, with most of the troops spread out along the border.
The threat North Korea poses, if any, is selling atomic bombs to Islamo-fascist crazies who would use the bomb if they had one.

Answer 4

The US invaded Iraq because the worlds supply of oil is running low.In 20-30 years it will cost more to extract the oil then it is worth.So the people who control our government need to make as much money off it while they still can. Saddam Hussein was absolutely no threat to the US and it greatly saddens me to see how stupid my country has become.Did all of you Bush supporters forget that we were the ones who gave him the gas that he used on the Kurds.Our country has a horrible history of supporting any terrorist as long as it will help them. Invading Iraq was just a way to destabilize the middle east and for the military industrial complex to make billions of dollars a year off of human suffering, something they are very good at.
We didnt invade North Korea and we wont because they have no oil and they dont matter.For anyone who believes any other country is a threat to us you should reconsider. This is the United States ok??? We take away your nuclear weapons but Im willing to bet anything we still have them strategically positioned everywhere and could blow up this world in a matter of hours if they so choose.BECAUSE thats how the US is.They think only their way is the right way and that they are so much more intelligent about everything else.

Answer 5

The candy is hard to remove when it is already in the mouth. N. Korea is already armed with all manor of WMD including nuclear devices. Also, China would not allow the U.S. to invade N. Korea. We wouldn't stand a chance trying to invade N. Korea so why bother?

Evidence was not clear about WMD before the Iraq invasion. Even the U.N. was not sure. It is fairly clear now that Iraq either had no WMD or destroyed them in the months of delay before invasion.

Answer 6

Damn good question my friend. M is partially right. Iraq has oil and Korea has Kim chi. (A dish made of fermented cabbage.) I have always said we are acting like the Drunk who lost his wallet in the old joke. He lost his wallet in the back parking lot but he's looking for it under the street light "because the light's better up here."
Ask the president. What's more, MAKE HIM ANSWER.
Oh and for those that are so certain that Iraq had these weapons of mass deception or whatever--Where are they? Don't you think if the US found some the President and Rummy would have been over there for a photo op?
Bio and Chemical weapons degrade. You may have a Sarin or mustard gas in 1993 but by 2003 all you have is something I wouldn't pour on my breakfast cereal but it's nothing you can use in battle

Answer 7

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WTF Are you people mental??
There has never been any evidence presented anywhere that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction at the time of invasion. During the time Hussein was being held with resolutions by the UN, UN Weapons inspectors toured Iraq without restriction and searched for months without any sign of weapons being discoverred. The CIA Advised President Bush that Iraq had no WMD program and he ignored them. That memo was released to the press by the CIA. The US armed forces have had unrestricted access to Iraq for 4 years without discoverring any evidence of WMDs or an active WMD program. If Saddam ever had the capactiy to build chemical weapons why would he buy them from France? What kind of retardo conspiracy theory do you believe in that you think Iraq had a neuclear or chemical weapons program that people living in that country can't prove ever existed?

Answer 8

Iraq had WMDs! He obviously used some of them on his OWN people. It would have been pretty easy to just slip them across the border to one of their other corrupt neighbors. Can't anyone see that we are doing a tremendous job over there? Think of all of the people that have decent living conditions because off us. If we had gone in there just for the oil, then what did we go into vietnam for?
The United States stands for what is right.

Answer 9

Deliberately false information was supplied by an allegedly friendly Arab country in the area during the years that Clinton was president. It was NOT a mistake on the part of GWB; his information came from the Clinton years.
The jury is still out on whether or not the WMD existed or were hidden. There heve been news stories to the effect that tens of thousands of Saddam's subjects were killed with gas. There was mustard gas found during the Gulf War.

Answer 10

One of the saddest things in this country today is the media... only slightly less sad are the people that read and believe everything in them.

I am not a republican... I am not a democrat... I am an American! I believe in doing what is right for the majority... not the minority groups! I have paid for my own college education to better myself. I have not whined, pissed, moaned or complained about having to pay back my debt to the bank. I chose to go to college… the debt is mine!

I have fought in Iraq for the freedom of an oppressed people. I am not selfish and care about more than myself. I do not mind paying a little extra for fuel considering I am still paying less than the rest of the world did 10 years ago. I have risked my life for people I have never met and most likely never will meet, I have helped complete strangers fix flat tires along the road, I have re-wired a stranger’s car battery at 2300 hours in the pouring rain at a stop sign.

I re-enlisted to go with my battalion to Iraq... I did not have to go... I wanted to go. I knew there were too many whining brats in my own country that can't see life past the end of their own nose. Mommy and Daddy have given me NOTHING but their name and the pride to wear it! I will go forth on this planet and do the jobs of others with a smile on my face and to the best of my ability. I do not need proof that a country's dictator has a weapon that will kill thousands at one time when he has already killed millions over the past 20 years!

Oh... and by the way... they drew first blood,
Sooooo SHUT THE F-U-C-K UP America!!!