In your opinion why did the Bush cabal give congress all the wrong information to justify the war?

Question

"The most important thing is for us to find Osama Bin Laden. It is our Number 1 priority - and we will not rest until we find him."
President George W. Bush - 13 September 2001

"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I have no idea and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
President George W. Bush - 13 March 2002

Answer 1

Yes;
He lied thru his friggen teeth!
Would take no advise, mind made up no matter what, would not let the UN inspectors even finish their job, disgusting behavior, deplorable person and he is the president, poor judgment on the part of the Republican party, will hurt them for a long time.

Answer 2

OIL... vindication for daddy's war.... OIL...

these guys aren't stupid -- they knew there wouldn't be an end game... so why did they do it?

hmmm either they have amnesia, or there is something else out there we don't know....

cheney's reasons for not getting Sadam the first time:

"If you're going to go in and try to topple Saddam Hussein, you have to go to Baghdad. Once you've got Baghdad, it's not clear what you do with it. It's not clear what kind of government you would put in place of the one that's currently there now. Is it going to be a Shia regime, a Sunni regime or a Kurdish regime? Or one that tilts toward the Baathists, or one that tilts toward the Islamic fundamentalists? How much credibility is that government going to have if it's set up by the United States military when it's there? How long does the United States military have to stay to protect the people that sign on for that government, and what happens to it once we leave?"

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[I]f Saddam wasn't there, his successor probably wouldn't be notably friendlier to the United States than he is. I also look at that part of the world as of vital interest to the United States; for the next hundred years it's going to be the world's supply of oil. We've got a lot of friends in the region. We're always going to have to be involved there. Maybe it's part of our national character, you know, we like to have these problems nice and neatly wrapped up, put a ribbon around it. You deploy a force, you win the war, and the problem goes away, and it doesn't work that way in the Middle East; it never has and isn't likely to in my lifetime [italics Chatterbox's].

Answer 3

He didn't say anything that Clinton hadn't said before him:
"His (Saddam Hussein) regime threatens the safety of his people, the stability of his region, and the security of all the rest of us.
What if he fails to comply, and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction and continue to press for the release of the sanctions and continue to ignore the solemn commitments that he made?
Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction.
And some day, some way, I guarantee you, he'll use the arsenal."
President Clinton
Address to Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff
February 17, 1998 http://www.cnn.com/allpolitics/1998/02/1...

Answer 4

he is greedy
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress on Friday moved to block the Bush administration from building permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq or controlling the country's oil sector, as it approved $70 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The restrictions included in a record $447 billion military funding bill were a slap at the administration, and Republicans have stripped them out of legislation in the past.

Answer 5

He went off the same intelligence that Clinton had and every member of Congress had when they voted for the war. I dont back Bush, but its so much bigger than one man.

Answer 6

i have a question for you .... do you think that all the events in the middle east are the result of "chance" and a response to events? or do you think it was part of a greater overall plan that started who knows when ... maybe in the reagan administration and war in the balkans? ... looks to me like the idea to get into the middle east for strategic, oil, and economic reasons was around LONG before 9/11, and 9/11 and binladen are part of it.

Answer 7

"I couldn't prosecute bin Laden even though we had him in our grasp."
- Bill Clinton, 1996

The Bush cabal gave congress bad information because the Hillary-Bill Clinton cabal gutted and hindered our intelligence services and military during their totally useless 8 years in office.

Answer 8

Col Hack

""You mean Iraq ?" I asked. "That isn't gonna be for nothing. Saddam is dangerous, he has to be stopped."

The man could barely conceal his contempt. "Give me a break. A danger to who? Us here in the U.S. of A.? Is his navy off our coast? Is his air force flying over our cities? The only danger he poses is to his neighbors, maybe, and they're so worried about it that they're willing to let us die for them, but won't fight him themselves. And they want us to pay them for the privilege. With friends like that...." His voice trailed off. "Maybe you're right," he finally said, "this isn't for nothing. It's for oil."

My raised eyebrows made him shake his head, and he went on: "I don't know what's worse. Killing people over political philosophy, like in my time, or for oil. Hey, at least this time we might get something for our blood. Like ol' Tecumseh Sherman said, 'Nations go to war when there is something to be got by it'. Now oil can be got by it. After a great start, we're gonna be no different than any other empire that came down the historical pike.

"And I know what you're gonna say next. 'He sponsors terrorism'. Where's the proof? I thought we were going after bin Laden for that. But wait, Afghanistan ain't got any oil. So we need another monster, who's got something worth taking. And Saddam is so damn convenient. Yeah, he's an evil sonovabitch who deserves to be taken out, but are we the ones who should do it? Are our kids the ones who should die for it? Is he worth another Wall like this?"

Howe about using something prior to 1998 when we hit Saddam in Operation Desert Fox!! There was no evidence that Hussein had any weapons! I guess the proof is the number of weapons we found, and the 8,000 pages Bush had redacted from the final Blix report to the UN!

Answer 9

Saddam was threatening to start selling oil for Euros. This would have hurt the value of the dollar AND the profits of the oil companies and Saudi Arabia. In order to get the price of oil up to 40 bucks, they had to put a stop to Hussein producing oil. They miscalculated, and the cost to our economy is going to be the collapse of the housing boom, regardless of what happens to price of oil now.

Answer 10

He gave them (libs too) like Pelosi, Franks, Laudenberg, Kerry, Clinton, Kennedy, et al, the exact same information he had and they agreed. Now just because your friends are lying to you now just to get reelected, do you think you should still vote for them?