Did Bush intentionaly mislead on Iraq war?

Question

Do you think he mislee the poeple in starting the Iraq war.Knowing he was staking his second term on it.

Answer 1

Over and over again, the CIA and the rest of the American intelligence community told the Bush administration what it had told the Clinton administration -- that Saddam was busily reconstituting his nuclear-weapons programs. Even the INR judged that the evidence could have demonstrated a limited reconstitution effort. Joe Wilson's report fed into that narrative by showing that Iraq had actively sought sources for yellowcake uranium after the IAEA and UNSCOM had locked up their own supplies.

Rather than showing that Bush lied about the intel he was given, this shows that the White House relied on a broad consensus among military and civilian intelligence services to determine that Saddam Hussein was pursuing nukes. The only liar uncovered in the beginning of the Phase II report is Joe Wilson.

Answer 2

Yes I think so, this war is about money and I think he and the oil company's planed a way to raise the price of oil and hence the profits. Also I think that the plan included that he would get a second term as people are reluctant to vote for a new president in times of war. There is some evidence that he was planning the war well before 9/11 happened and if that is the case then he was doing it for personal gain.

Answer 3

Nearly everybody including Saddam Hessian believed that Iraq had WMDs. Everybody other than Poliweds believe that Saddam was connected to OSB. Just because something does not turn out or appear to be true later does not mean that someone was misleading in the statements they made. Bush is guilty of telling people what he thinks and acting on that. Others tell people what they think the polls are saying the voters believe and don't do any thing for fear of being wrong.
Remember there has only been one US President ever found to be a liar by a court of law (hint- WJC).

Answer 4

Of course not. The proximate cause was that Iraq had not accounted for its WMD, which it was known to have had because it used them. It is not correct to suppose that the casus belli was a known significant connection between Iraq and terrorist groups such as al Qaeda. Bush was very clear, and has consistently been clear, that this was the case. The recent report on Iraq notes correctly that a significant connection between Iraq and terrorist groups has not been established. The Doelfer report on WMD notes that some quantity of old munitions were found, but that fewer than 300 of some 10,000 arsenals had been inspected. In the event, most of the WMD materials (amounting to several thousand tons) were shipped off to Syria starting in June 2002, where presumably they still are.

Answer 5

I don't think he staked his second term on the campaign in Iraq. If he had never bothered with toppling Saddam's regime the war in Afghanistan would have been more than enough to win him re-election. In fact, the expanding of the war effort into Iraq was risky then as it is still being used against him & fellow republicans today.

As for misleading the public, I think that is a bogus charge, considering that many democrats who were privy to the same intelligence arrived at his same conclusion. There were wmd's in Iraq, we know because we sold him some of them. We have not found many of them as of yet because in the effort to appease the international community and peaceniks at home we unfortunately gave Saddam plenty of time to hide them and spread them throughout the arab world. (I bet anything Syria got most of them.)

Answer 6

No I dont think he did. ... War is war... once war is started you never know what you uncover. It is just not "the Bush's fault" either congress could have voted no and thats that. That is the reason why we have checks and balances. The President cant say go to war with out Congress approving it. I think it is just an wasy target to blame bush when you should be talking to your representives of your state about that regardless of what party they vote for it was pretty much said by them that we were going to war. So I dont think he mislead at all. I think he thought carefully whether you think that or not is you. But he did give the UN time to figure things out but they fell short so I would also ask why didnt they step up in the time of need. Wasnt that the reason why they were created?

Answer 7

Yes, yes, yes !!!! He had a agenda and needed two terms to complete It and it wasn't the war in Iraq . He might have found someway to invaded Iraq , even if 9/11 hadn't happened

Answer 8

The evidence is overwhelming that the answer is yes.

Bush, Cheney and Rice all conflated Saddam Hussein with 9/11 and made strong implications that Hussein a Nuclear Weapons program and that he was an "imminent threat to the US". Both of these were false and they knew it.

Those who say people who say this can't be trusted have probably never read a newspaper or a book on the subject. The proof is there for those who care to look.

Answer 9

2000 Fraud? in case you've been paying interest once back--- AL GORE challenged the election outcomes because they were very close in Florida, GW had already received in the different states, yet both applicants mandatory Florida, After days of recounting and recounting, in line with regulation, the criminal specialist favourite of Florida informed the international that Bush replaced into the winner. Gore appealed to the finest courtroom. The best courtroom, no freind of the Republican social gathering, ruled that Gore lost, Bush received i wager you assert the finest courtroom is crooked? .

Answer 10

Yes, the evidence is clear. He wanted war with Iraq even before he was elected.

As soon as 9/11 happened, he was pressuring his staff to link it to SH, when they kept trying to explain to him that that makes no sense.

SH wouldn't align himself with Bin Laden, he was a secular dictator, whereas Bin Laden is a theocrat who believes in rule by clerics. If you were a dictator would you want to share your rule with religious leaders?

He most likely believed all the BS about how the war would last only a few weeks, but that's what you get when you hand decision-making power to ignorant, arrogant morons who refuse to listen to reason. He refused to listen to Powell because he didn't like what Powell said, and listened, instead to his clueless friends.