Cause for the war in Iraq. WMD or no?

Question

Did anyone else find it interesting that the Bush administration swore up and down that there were WMD's in Iraq; and upon not finding any focused on the "freedom of Iraqis"?

The problem I find with the whole freedom thing is the timing of the situation. If freedom was such a big concern, then why not invade earlier?

There are many other nations that do not have freedom, are they next?

What gives the United States the right to decide who gets democracy and who does not?

Does anyone else see it this way?

Answer 1

You are absolutely correct. That was the singular reason that we went into Iraq--to get rid of Hussein's access to supposed WMD. We never found them, and yet we are still there, claiming now that we invaded for a different reason--like you mention about bringing democracy, etc. What we are doing is causing a civil war--after not finding any WMDs--yeah we are so helping the Iraqi people (the majority of whom want the US military out)--NOT. We are treating them children, as though we have all the answers, and they have no idea how to run their own country. They want us to leave; we should leave. We have no right to be there. None. And meanwhile, thousands of people have been killed and continue to die everyday--on both sides.

Answer 2

No because you are wrong. First of all, Iraq was in violation of 17 UN resolutions, the WMD's were there after Iraqi freedom in 1991. Tony Blair, Putin and yes ven France all verified that WMD were their. Then we had Hussain attempt to assiniate a former President, Bush's father, which I would think woud be enought to get rid of hm right there. Saddam was also paying off the UN in the food for oil scandel so he could re-supply his armies with weapons. You should aslo remember the history here, less than a year earlie the World Trade Center was hit and killed 3100 invididuals. Bush now had the responsibility for seeing that this doesn['t happen again. Most worldwide intellegence agencies indicated Iraq had WMD's. Bush did not want them to fall into the hands of Ql Queda, especially since Saddam has such hatred for the US after Iraq Freedom.

Answer 3

The cause for Iraq is now and has always been to stop terrorism. WMD's were a secondary reason, and there is proof that they were there and that they have been moved. We decide who gets democracy when their government becomes a threat to us. That governent has ALWAYS been a threat, September 11, just made it clear how much these very evil people needed to go down for good. The freedom thing has been a goal from the beginnning. This is not the first time that we have gone to war with a country and then helped them rebuild, we have done that in evry single war we have fought. This has not been attempted before, because everyone was too busy trying to be diplomatic and talking to them. We can see how well the diplonmacy mehtod worked now can't we. Besides previous administrations, were too busy getting busy with their interns and pardoning terrorists (the ones who carried out Sept. 11) to care about national security.

Why is it that people always blame bad behavior on someone else? The civil unrest in Iraq has been there for centuries. We did not cause the civil war, it has always been that way. They just have anew enemy to fight. we are doing a lot of good there. Talk to most any soldier who is returning and they will tell you the truth. Stop listening to morons who don't know anything, like Michael Moore and John flip flop Kerry.

You want to see the truth, what we really have done in Iraq?

Watch this video- this tells the real story.

http://www.glennbeck.com/realstory/iraq-video.shtml

Answer 4

Wow. What college district is that? Presidnet George W. Bush prosecuted the warfare in Iraq for diverse motives. the single maximum widley recognize and least understood, ad to do with guns of Mass Destruction. maximum individuals imagine that the idea replaced into to flow inot Iraq and locate vats of weaponized botulism or almost finished nuclear instruments. the reality is a lot less concrete--Iraq had made consistent efforts to stymie inspections and had by no potential provided an total accounitng of their WMD supplies. there have been such supplies that were common to be in Iraq in 1992 and in 1998, by 2002, the question replaced into what had befell to those materails--what were destroyed and how, the position were they, might want to any of or not that is shown? Hussein had also given a lot help and help to terrorists. We were engaged in Afghanistan for virtually a three hundred and sixty 5 days and it replaced into common that al Qaeda individuals were fleeing--between the probability-free havens they were fleeing to replaced into Iraq--partly the invasionwa about denying those havens and preventing help to different terror communities to boot suhc as Hamas and Hezbollah.

Answer 5

I agree! There is something to be said about the "We The People" concept. If Americans can struggle for their own freedom, why can't any other country in the world who really wants to be free? There is strength in numbers. We had no right to interfere with Iraq. If the world community wanted Saddam out of the way, they should have shared the burden of removing him and the cost of rebuilding the country. Instead, it fell on the American people. What is really sad is that Americans went into this war with the impression that Bush was giving them the right information! To find out the leader of this country would give the American people the wrong information in order to go to war, was the biggest tragedy since no other president in our history has done anything remotely like this. Call it a lie or misinformation, call it what you want, but it should never have happened! I also think that we have lost our focus in getting the true culprit in the whole deal which is Bin Ladden. Wasn't it strange how Bush had Usama's kin escorted out of the country to "safety" right after 9-11? Why was there no interrogation? Strange to me! History will expose all the facts in time and people of this generation are going to be in shock from what will be revealed in future generations.

Answer 6

what a quastion?
do you believe that?
who was the first to give saddam gazes first place?
the administration was very obvious that saddam has hidden back some of the gazies which was given by ramsfeld.late 80ies.saddam had these gazies all demolished early 90ies.but i have to remind you plans to invade iraq was as early as the 70ies
it was kissinger famous words"one win then win one" but this proofed to be very badadvice he ment a war between iran and raq ends with one wins the war .then you win the week winner.so things did not go that way.it ends with a very week iraq which needs 50 years to be well again and a very strong iran which happened to become a regional power although it lost the war
has to remind you independent sources claims the death toll of iraqi pple get up to 665 000 but we can not hear any trial for any one else . saddams tria was that he agreed on penalties for death sentence to 148 person who has attempted to attack and kill him.although we see in america they did not made a trial or charges against any one when there was an attemp on bush the father on kuwait.clinton sent few messiles over to iraq and killed randomly pple with 1000 kgm messiles

Answer 7

People they had wmd out there they had move the vehicles when we arrived there. You need to start looking into the war rather then relying on the 6 o clock news. Even the democratic leaders denied WMD. Both sides knew of it's existing.

Answer 8

Its amazing how many times the justificatiion for this war has changed.

First it was because of WMDs, but we couldnt find any

then it was because of ties to the 9-11 plot, but there werent any

then it was to get rid of Saddam, which we did, but we're still there

then it was to bring Democracy to the Iraqis, which they didnt ask for

Answer 9

So right. USA wants to force democracy on other nations and then declare them free. Bush is desperately seeking a way to look the hero in an unnecessary and disastrous war.

Answer 10

WRONG! The cause of the war was blamed on WMDs (they were never there as the UN inspectors atested to)

The cause was our Presidents greed for oil, contractor money for his friends (Halliburton, B&R, etc) and pay back for his dad.

Let's not fool ourselves into thinking it was about anything else.