why do you think the united states invaded Iraq ?

Question

i mean, was it because the people needed our help because they were being tortured by the saddom regime ?

I live by a motto: if there is someone in need of defense when they cannot protect themselves, anyone who has the ability to defend them have a responsibility to carry out that act of defending them.

Was bush playing the big brother part and trying to protect those who cannot defend themselves? or do you think that there was some other reason? Be honest now ! I really want to know your opinion

Answer 1

yeah right, bush was there and was like yeah what ever when the canadian red cross was there working soo hard, why couldn't bush sent some ppl there before we had to sent the canadians over there to help

Answer 2

Basically, I think after 9/11, Bush and many others took an attitude of "That's it ! We're not playing around anymore. If you're not going to comply with17 different UN resolutions and kick out the weapons inspectors, then we have to assume you have something to hide." 9/11 demonstrated what lengths the terrorists were willing to go to. We couldn't take the chance that Sadaam had weapons that could be sold or given to terrorists. It was hoped that this then would begin to transform the region. Things haven't gone as planned, but I think it was what he had to do at the time. If we hadn't invaded Iraq, and a few months later a terrorist bought some WMDs off of Sadaam and attacked another US city, we would all be bashing Bush for NOT doing something about Sadaam and his defiance of the world community.

Answer 3

Well gee I don't know, Dick Cheney's Halliburton got a no-bid multi-million dollar contract for Iraq (Dick Cheney has made over 9 million in profit from this very deal). A fire fighting firm with links to Dick Cheney received a no-bid contract also. The Carlyle Group has made a ton of cash from their defense involvement in Iraq. In case you don't know Bush has investments into the Carlyle Group along with the Bin Laden family.

Also Bush was pissed because Saddam tried having his Daddy killed. Now who are Cheney and Bush? They're OIL GUYS. What Does Iraq have? PLENTY OF OIL TO STEAL. Just follow the money and you'll have your culprit.

And Bush wasn't playing the hero by getting rid of Saddam, so Iraq could live free. Remember what he said, "Saddam has WMD's and must disarm". Remember Bush saying that's why we went in Iraq? Of course it had nothing to do with the fact that He and Cheney would come away with millions from the invasion, or their buddies who gave them millions of dollars for their campaign, and when they won it was payback time.

If defending people who couldn't defend themselves was the reason, then we would have been in Africa, or N.Korea. Some people will tell you Kim Jung il of N. Korea makes Saddam look like the pope.

Then again N. Korea doesn't have oil now does it.

Answer 4

The Invasion of Iraq was nothing more then the Bush family (From Royal decedents) and the Royal Family of the Saudis including their European Allies gaining greater control on the world's oil supply. The cost of pumping a barrel of oil from Iraq is $3 a barrel as opposed to $8-$23 dollars in other parts of the world. Does George W. Bush seem like a humanitarian to you?

Answer 5

imho, GWB wanted to do what his daddy didn't have the cojones for: to take out saddam, plain and simple. Everything else, the "oil", the "WMD's" the "terrorist connection", is just window dressing. I think that his intel was good, but outdated, which led him to believe that the Iraqi troops were all he had to deal with. Unfortunately, the ONE major part of his intel that actually underestimated a problem, was that saddam saw that he would be invaded, and DID invite every terrorist under the sun inside his borders, to make Iraq the ultimate "bitter pill"

Answer 6

Freeing the Iraqi people from the hell that Saddam put them through for over 25 years was an absolutely honorable and a noble cause, however, I don't believe that President Bush's (G.W) main reason was doing that, but mostly to correct his father's mistake in 1991 when he (G.H. Bush) did not eliminate Saddam when he had the perfect opportunity.

Answer 7

Oil.

Whoopi Goldberg does this bit that pretty much sums up Bush's abilities as a president. She talks about how she watched the news all day on September 11th, and how angry she was that someone would do such a thing. She said she went to bed that night feeling confident because we know who did it, it was Bin Laden, and Bush said that we're going to go to Afghanistan and catch him, and take our revenge.

"I woke up the next morning...and we were in IRAQ."

Answer 8

Ask little children playing computer games with ghost stories on planet earth.
Until they got themselves with marching orders with "Get them up and move them out " on planet earth.
When the did'nt learn an old saying " Children are to be seen and not to heard " on planet earth.
When they don't even aged like good wines with self lack of knowledge on planet earth.

Answer 9

Multitudes of reasons have been given. There is not one good answer to your question. I think it was a response to 9/11 and nothing else. Osama got what he wanted, a call to Muslims to choose sides. We are really just pissing them off more.

Answer 10

the Iraq invasion was planned before the attacks of 9-11,, I think Bush wants to nuke Iran now,,,,