First off, learn to spell Iraq.
Second. There is no war between the US and Iraq.
The war between the USA and Iraq ended a very short time after it began back in 2003. Now Iraq is our ally and they are being attacked by terrorist claiming to be attacking us for the Iraqi's. Nothing is further from the truth and if you actually look at who and what is being attacked. it is mostly the Iraqi's that are being attacked. moreso than our own troops. Most of the "Insurgents" are not Iraqi, but are other foreign fighters coming into Iraq to answer so call to jihad by the terrorists organizations.
The War on Terror and The War in Iraq are ( I guess I should say WERE) two seperate things. Iraq was about Saddam not complying with UN resolutions set in place at the end of the first Gulf War. and had nothing to do with 9/11.
If 9/11 had never happened it is probable that "Operation Iraqi Freedom" would still have happened.
After Saddam was thrown out and we were helping Iraq rebuild into a better society, then the terrorists snuck into the country and started their crap.
I saw another Answerer put it best on another question yesterday and I will try to quote him here from memory...
We have made our goals in invading Iraq in the first place. Saddam is out. No WMDs are in Iraq. a new Government is in power (Freely Elected). We would be totally justified now in pulling out and stamping "Mission Accomplished" on the Jacket cover. The fact that we are still there. Helping the Iraqi people in their time of rebuilding. Our men still dying to protect the Iraqi people, proves if nothing else does that we are there to assist Iraq in creating a better future for itself and NOT just there for conquest. Look to Japan and Germany after WW II. They were our Enemies then yet after we defeated the governments that put them on the path to war we helped both rebuild and they are our Allies today.
Just as the Iraqi people today are our allies.
2006-09-08 08:27:17
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answered by CG-23 Sailor 6
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I couldn't agree more with rockandroll, and ilovemydog..
Do you not remember what Saddam did to his people? Seriously... And, do you not remember 9/11? This is the war against terrorism. Not for freaking oil! If it were for oil, then we would be done by now... You should be thankful that there are people fighting for you and your freedom to even say stuff like that.
2006-09-08 14:58:10
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answered by Katie 3
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I find it amazing, and more than a little frightening, how so many people STILL seem to think that Saddam/Iraq had ANYTHING to do with 9/11.
I served in the Marines in Vietnam and I spent over 20 years in the Middle East.
Hey, here's a news flash: There's NO connection between Iraq/Saddam and 9/11, and Osama hates Saddam almost as much, if not more, than he does us.
We're only infidels; Saddam's a heretic.
How about this: I just checked Yahoo news and came across this article - quite a coincidence.
"Senate: No prewar Saddam-al-Qaida ties
By JIM ABRAMS, Associated Press Writer1 hour, 25 minutes ago
There's no evidence Saddam Hussein had ties with al-Qaida, according to a Senate report on prewar intelligence that Democrats say undercuts President Bush's justification for invading Iraq.
Bush administration officials have insisted on a link between the Iraqi regime and terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Intelligence agencies, however, concluded there was none.
Republicans countered that there was little new in the report and Democrats were trying to score election-year points with it.
The declassified document released Friday by the intelligence committee also explores the role that inaccurate information supplied by the anti-Saddam exile group the Iraqi National Congress had in the march to war.
It concludes that postwar findings do not support a 2002 intelligence community report that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program, possessed biological weapons or ever developed mobile facilities for producing biological warfare agents.
The 400-page report comes at a time when Bush is emphasizing the need to prevail in Iraq to win the war on terrorism while Democrats are seeking to make that policy an issue in the midterm elections.
It discloses for the first time an October 2005 CIA assessment that prior to the war Saddam's government "did not have a relationship, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his associates."
Bush and other administration officials have said that the presence of Zarqawi in Iraq before the war was evidence of a connection between Saddam's government and al-Qaida. Zarqawi was killed by a U.S. airstrike in June this year.
White House press secretary Tony Snow said the report was "nothing new."
"In 2002 and 2003, members of both parties got a good look at the intelligence we had and they came to the very same conclusions about what was going on," Snow said. That was "one of the reasons you had overwhelming majorities in the United States Senate and the House for taking action against Saddam Hussein," he said.
Sen. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record), D-Mich., a member of the committee, said the long-awaited report was "a devastating indictment of the Bush-Cheney administration's unrelenting, misleading and deceptive attempts" to link Saddam to al-Qaida.
The administration, said Sen. John D. Rockefeller (news, bio, voting record), D-W.Va., top Democrat on the committee, "exploited the deep sense of insecurity among Americans in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, leading a large majority of Americans to believe — contrary to the intelligence assessments at the time — that Iraq had a role in the 9/11 attacks."
The chairman of the committee, Sen. Pat Roberts (news, bio, voting record), R-Kan., said it has long been known that prewar assessments of Iraq "were a tragic intelligence failure."
But he said the Democratic interpretations expressed in the report "are little more than a vehicle to advance election-year political charges." He said Democrats "continue to use the committee to try and rewrite history, insisting that they were deliberately duped into supporting the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime."
The panel report is Phase II of an analysis of prewar intelligence on Iraq. The first phase, issued in July 2004, focused on the CIA's failings in its estimates of Iraq's weapons program.
The second phase has been delayed as Republicans and Democrats fought over what information should be declassified and how much the committee should delve into the question of how policymakers may have manipulated intelligence to make the case for war.
The committee is still considering three other issues as part of its Phase II analysis, including statements of policymakers in the run up to the war."
2006-09-08 15:16:08
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answered by johnslat 7
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The war is NOT between the USA and Iraq and the USA
is not bombing innocent civillians, it is the MF Islamo-Fascist terrorists who are killing innocent people. Get your facts straight.
2006-09-08 14:44:35
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answered by Vagabond5879 7
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We aren't bombing them...they are bombing themselves. The Iraqi people were cheering for us when we got there. They were happy. It's just that the war has been mishandled and now they are headed toward civil war. They are killing themselves out of hate for us and eachother.
2006-09-08 14:40:34
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answered by Jasmine 5
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when you say the war between us and Iraq you must meen terrorist and Iraq , i thought us stood for usa for a minute there , but it couldn't because that would make no sense
2006-09-08 14:58:34
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answered by Anonymous
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