what is your opinion on the war in iraq,and how bush handled the war?

Answer 1

Bush has a few more gray hairs then when he entered office. He seems to have faired better than the 2700 plus U.S. service men killed, 20,000 plus U.S. service men injured, maimed, and or disabled, and the estimate 600,000 Iraqi's who lost their lives since the invasion began.

Answer 2

Like taking medicine some things are necessary despite a downside. Even the best wars can be so discribed. I think this one was necessary. It was won in 27 days by classic definition. Probably a mistake was in not doing a lot more clobbering early on instead of being good fellows and pulling our punches.

In passing, a comment on weapons of mass destruction that there was evidence were being held or developed. Remember a decade earlier. Then had been a bitter eight year war between Iraq and Iran. Casualities were over one million. But in the first hour of our attack to free Kuwait, Iraq flew all of their military planes out of the country to their arch enemy Iran. Critics could have then claimed we should not have attacked Iraq because they had no air force.
Is it not possible that with months to prepare, Iraq could have done the same with WMDs, not to their enemy Iran but to their friend, Syria? There were reports of a change of guards at the border and of massive convoys going from Iraq into Syria. Of course, they may have been delivering Domino Pizza.

Answer 3

The nameless, faceless people who really are in control of our government (Bush is just a puppet) wanted war with Iraq at any cost for two reasons: 1) The Bush family had a personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein ever since Desert Storm, and 2) Dick Cheney wants all that OIL swimming underneath Iraq's sands so he and his Exxon-Mobil buddies can get richer and richer and richer.
Bush has mismanaged this 'war' from the very beginning, But he's an arrogant, spoiled rich kid who has no clue what he's doing anyway.
PREDICTION: Even though the Bush administration claims we'll withdraw from Iraq by 2009, we will be there for decades - until every drop of OIL is sucked out of Iraq's sand. If that's not the case, WHY is the U.S.A. building the largest embassy in the world on a 104-acre site in downtown Baghdad, overlooking the 'new' Iraqi government that Bush and Cheney installed?
PREDICTION: The big business interests oil companies, rich elitists, and members of the giant U.S. military-industrial complex will order Bush to invade Iran by the spring of 2007. Why? For the same reason they wanted to invade Iraq: rich fields of easily-accessible OIL.
PREDICTION: If it appears that a Democratic landslide is imminent in November 2008, the Bush handlers will fabricate another 'terrorist attack' on U.S. soil (this time in the Midwest, probably Chicago or St. Louis). Then they will order Bush to declare martial law, claiming that a change in administrations at this 'perilous time' would not be in the best interest of national security. This will buy enough time to groom Jeb Bush for a Presidential race, so that the Bush dynasty and the wealthy elitists who want world domination remain in power. -RKO-

Answer 4

Wrong war-- went in on false pretenses which chaned with the wind (flip-flopper)

Wrong Execution - They had no planning for the occupation and what they did do failed miserably- Control of the population, disbanding the Iraqi army. They still have little in the way of infrastructure, oil output sucks, unemployment is like 30-40% in Iraq

Mismanagement of funds - Billions have been spent and Billions have been lost. What have we gotten for our money- more terrorists, Iraq that is worse off now than when we started, civil war, more people hate us and they want us out (we're not their liberators, we are considered their occupiers).

We allowed Iraq to distract us from Afghanistan, Bin Laden and Al Qaeda. Afghanistan is getting worse. Korea is a major issue, Iran is a major issue.

Have not controlled the borders in Iraq, Afghanistan or in the US. Illegal immigration has not been dealt with at all

Iraq war has dominated the agenda and consquently, domestic agenda has been largely ignored -- except for Tax cuts.

A miserable failure on most fronts.

Answer 5

I'm a little concerned that we give Bush too much credit or blame, depending on the news from Iraq. The insurgents are just kicking our butts that's all. I don't even call this a war, its more like out-of-control gang violence. The US troops are like traffic cops stuck in the Indianapolis 500. The truth is, we already accomplished our mission, we dethroned Saddam and helped place a government. Now we need to step aside to force the new Iraqi government to handle this. If there's a civil war then so-be-it. Maybe they need to air out centuries of oppression, it happens.

Answer 6

Saddam needed to be removed from power.
There are others who also need to be removed. I don't know if Saddam should have been ahead of some others on the list as I don't have access to classified intel.

The war has not been handled perfectly, but no war ever has.

There have been political misjudgements, but there always are.

Would some other Pres have avoided some of his errors? Of course
Would some other Pres have made mistakes that Bush didn't? Of course.

Bottom line, of the options we had in 2000 & 2004, I think we made the right choices.

Answer 7

First, we had no business fighting that war. All of the governments stated reasons were smoke and mirrors.

As for how Bush handled it, the first few days were OK. But on Rumsfeld's advice, and against the advice of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and ex-General Colin Powell, he went in with only enough troops to do the fighting, not enough to do the policing afterwards. This led to looting, violence, and fear. We didn't have people in place to get essential services back on line quickly. We didn't have enough troops to keep the people safe. So they turned to sectarian in-fighting and eventual civil war.

Today, it's a total quagmire from which we hope to extract ourselves. But as a leader, Bush is a failure.

Answer 8

Our war was prepared, ready and waiting for an opening to find a home in Iraq.

Bush isn't 'handling' anything. He's spending 8 years paying back all his dad's cronies for favors they did his family. This war is making all his filthy rich oil friends even richer, only now, they really are filthy because they all have blood on their hands. But, as long as the money isn't too blood soaked to handle, it's all good for them.

Answer 9

Bush has done more for this country then the Democrats have done in the past thirty years.

Bush will be looked favorably upon in the history books, second only to Reagan.

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Answer 10

It started out with great intentions, but now he seems to of just gave in to everything. We have the power to take over any country in the world, we could use one aircraft carrier to completely take out Iraq and win and move on to the next threat. But for as long as we allow the liberal media to keep slamming the President and leaking out classified information, it will continue to be drawn out. Not only that, but for as long as we remain scared of Muslims hating us and keep bending over backwards for them, it will be drawn out. Lastly, as long as we have people in charge of our military who will allow the imprisonment of our own troops, because they are shooting back at the very enemy that would have killed them, and they are the ones being prosecuted. By a liberal reporter, who wrote about how they shot and killed the enemy, and they are the ones being punished, instead of medals it is prison!

We no longer need politicians and pseudo-military leaders running the war, we need a Patton or MacArthur back in charge, but sadly they are no longer with us. We need Dwight Eisenhower back, too.

Iraq should have been over with the same week we took it over! It is war, it is not suppose to be a pretty "let us talk out our differences." That has been tried now for past decades, there is no talking sense in the middle east, the terrorist threats need to be taken care of! Within this amount of time taken, we could have had every country in the middle east taken over. No, can't do that, we are afraid to anger a group of people, home and abroad, the war started out magnificent, but now it is a lost cause, for as long as we keep being a push over country and let ourselves be hands tied behind our backs and not use our military for what they are used for. We will be in Iraq for a long time and never settle the terrorist problem.