Shouldn't it be obvious why the United States is at war? No American should ever have to ask why we're at war, yet it happens everyday.
2006-10-17 06:27:47 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The only ones that have to ask are the ones that were too stupid to listen to the reasons when the President went on TV and told us.
2006-10-17 06:34:27 · answer #1 · answered by E LIB o NATOR 2 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Nobody really asks why we're at war.
The only people that ask that aren't really asking 'why', they are challenging your belief that we are at war. They think we are committing the global equivalent of assault, or burglary, but "war" connotates two sides, they think it's just us out there killing people at random.
To think that the U.S. is at war requires you to believe that there are people in the world that actually want to kill us, and either have or seek the means and opportunity to do so. The people that have to ask 'why' simply don't believe that, they think that these foreign entities all just hate GWB, and if we'd had Gore or Kerry as President, they'd love us.
If one understands that we ARE at war, one understands why. anyone that asks 'why' doesn't realize that it IS a war, and is simply out of touch with reality.
Among those that understand the reality of the war and the why, reasonable minds may differ about what should happen next, but the people that talk about immediate pullout or timetables simply haven't realized that it is a war. It will not be over just because we move our forces elsewhere. It will come to us, somewhere.
The enemy (that the "why" crowd doesn't know about) has told us this.
2006-10-17 13:44:18 · answer #2 · answered by open4one 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's easy: Americans are fickle, have short memories, and do not follow events as they should.
Many Americans remember what happened on the 11th of September 2001, but many dont remember or even know what happened in the UN that lead up to the removal of Saddam. Some don't even know the reason we are there was to enforce a UN agreement that most of the UN was reluctant to go along with. Many probably thought this was just like or going to be like Desert Storm where the troops were going to go over, bomb a bunch of stuff, and we go on with life- isn't America great...but that's the America we live in, like it or not.
2006-10-17 13:45:14 · answer #3 · answered by paradigm_thinker 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not that you do not know the reason for why we are at war - it's that you do not agree with them and you believe the lies told to you by an elitist media.
--If we were bombarded on a daily basis with graphic pictures, images, photographs and audio recordings from September 11, 2001 - the heroes, the victims, the devastation, the cruelty...
--If we were allowed to view the gruesome beheadings and rape of soldiers, civilians, media, women and children...
--If we actually saw the enemy, saw his souless heart, saw the hatred poisoning his eyes...
You would not be asking WHY!
2006-10-17 13:50:30 · answer #4 · answered by Republican Mom 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Below is a link with a great BBC documentary called "Why We Fight", all about the military-industrial complex and who makes money off of War. I think its more that people don't want to know why we are at War because it is too horrible to think about.
2006-10-17 13:40:10 · answer #5 · answered by Jared H 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Donchya think it's sad the way Democrats want to flee from the war and get nuked by terrorists?
2006-10-17 13:41:51 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Damn! and I thought it was because we were finally fed up with panty waist diplomacy when radical jihadi psychothugs were out attacking our embassies, our military, and our own skyscrapers right here in America!
9/11 kinda seemed a reasonable casus belli to me.
2006-10-17 14:27:17 · answer #7 · answered by Mad Roy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whats sadder is how Democrats has no answers to any of todays problems, just insults and non stop Bush bashing..
2006-10-17 15:23:16 · answer #8 · answered by itsallover 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what war? I mean clinton changed the definition of having sex, and Bush changed the definition of war....we are NOT at war!
2006-10-17 14:59:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's because unless we Americans show the graphic,terrible scenes of September 11,2001 on television EVERY SINGLE DAY, people tend to forget why we are at war. we Americans did NOT start this war, it was brought to us on that fateful day.
2006-10-17 13:41:39 · answer #10 · answered by slabsidebass 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Even Bush doesn't...
"You know, one of the hardest parts of my job is to connect Iraq to the war on terror." --George W. Bush, interview with CBS News' Katie Couric, Sept. 6, 2006
2006-10-17 13:35:43 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋