Why is Iraq , as Bush said , the center of the war on terrorism?

Answer 1

Because he is nuts!! Actually what he did was to destabilize that whole region with Iran now becoming the major player in the region!

Terrorism has nothing to do with an organized state! It is actually the opposite and most groups have no actual political ties to any of them! They rely on some for support, like Hezbollah and Iran!

There is no such thing as a "War on terrorism"!! That is a crock! And you guys believe it!!

Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, had no hijackers aboard any plane(?), and had significant differences with people like bin Lauden! There were no terrorist in Iraq until we let them in, and then allowed a civil war!

Answer 2

It is a central location able to be used in an effective manner to destroy the ability of others to wage massive attacks in the region .
Americans have been working to install land based missle tracking and destruction equipment in Iraq .THIS location is the key to protecting the oil fields of the middle east against attacks which might render the area radioactive for many years if we did not take over Iraq .To directly be given access to locations in Iraq would of sent flares up in the arab world and know we have stuck it all in right under there noses .
LINE of sight and missle trigectory is key to this location .Israel is just to far west of the location to protect the oil region as well as a few friends in the area .
We must controll this area for strategic reasons and not for democracy this is why the war is taking so long and we are not leaving .

Answer 3

Well it is not, in reality it is still in our ally countries of Pakistan, Sudia Aribia, and spreading to places in Africa and Asia.


Terrorism is word to cover anything that the adminstartion needs justifying.
A war on a term or tatic or terror will go on for ever as terror is an abstract term and tatic not a country.

it is the justification for the presidents attempt to power grab and violate constitional powers.

We are there to secure bases, and oil.

There are only two kinds of leaders in this world. Two.

those who represent the intrest of thier country, thier people and the intrest of thier resources.

and

those who represent the intrest of the United States.


at what point does the Iraq elected government start to represent its own intrest and take back its oil.
we are never leaving, and we will stay because we will be eventually be backing or funding arming a new friend......

Sadam was our friend at one point.

Answer 4

The premise is that peaceful, democratic, secular governments in the Middle East will prove to be more advantageous to US interests, but also a solid response to the extremist, defeatist, blaming premise of terrorism in general.

Iraq's success will show Muslims in the region that they can live within their religious tenets without resorting to violence or armed response to substantiate their voice or their needs. In nations such as Afghanistan, Islam was used to bring order to a land dominated by pilfering warlords. That order went to the extreme, and ended up being just as bad (if not worse) a solution to Afghanistan's needs than life under the warlords.

The Saudis purposely fund anti-American madrassas to 'quiet' the dissent in the streets by implicitly supporting extremism and keeping the fire on American necks instead of Saudi ones, but externally showing an amicable face to the West. This is a dangerous fence-sitting exercise for the Saudis, ensuring they are not dethroned from within, but generating immense pressure to shut down extremist schools and move towards democracy from without.

If we succeed in Iraq, as we have been doing from an administrative standpoint, Syria and Iran will feel (as they are now) threatened by an internal uprising to dethrone totalitarianism and move both nations toward the West. Democracy in the MidEast is foreign, and there is fear of this phenomenon. But really Iraqis have been asking for this for decades. They are in the midst of an internal power struggle, but no one has yet called for an end to democracy in Iraq. Remember, the U.S. Civil War came NINETY years after the birth of our nation, and it took another HUNDRED years for the issues dividing this country to sort themselves out...It is painful, but so are all the births of nations. I think much more of this is made stateside, and Iraqis understand that after 30 years of Sunni minority rule, some bloodletting is bound to take place now that the Sunni shackles have been removed from the Shi'ites. But a successful, Iraqi-style democracy is just what terrorism supporters do not want, because it counters EVERYTHING the terrorists say is bad about the U.S.

Iraqis are now enjoying a freedom they never knew before, and the liberation was at the hands of the West, not Al Qaeda or anyone else. That is not a fact lost on most people in the region, and it is a battle for the minds of Iraqis that Al Qaeda and others fight for today.

So far, democracy is outdistancing anything else the terrorists have come up with.

Answer 5

Because that gives Bush an excuse to keep the majority of our overseas forces there. If Iraq wasn't the center, there would be the expectation that those troops should be somewhere else.

Answer 6

if they think Iraq should be the center of the war of terror...

it's going to be a very long war on terror...

Osama has to be so happy that Bush has no clue what he's doing...

Answer 7

I take this as "crypto-speak". He's saying something without really saying it.

Iraq is ancient Babylon, the center and seat of the rebellion against God.

Muslims are against God. They want to kill all Jews and Christians.

Thus Babylon (Iraq) is the center of the war on Islamofascist terrorism and Bush knows it.

Answer 8

Because the islamofascists believe that a stable democracy in the middle of their turf will be the beginning of the end. It's not the Iraqis cauing the problems there for the most part, it's the al Qaeda types who think only the right kind of muslim worshippers should rule any country and especially in their own backyard.

Answer 9

Because Bush – the little baby that he is – is terrified of Iraq.

Answer 10

Let's see no wmds, no terrorists prior to invasion, and no annoyed population. You're not seeing the hidden meanings of what he said. Iraq is the center of all oil deposits.