Before invading Iraq, shouldn`t Bush have caught Bin Laden first?

Question

It was Bin Laden who was the muscle behind the 9/11 attacks, yet he has been conveniently forgotten about as Saddam was an easier target to attack and catch.

eerie, I have done my homework, perhaps you need to do some. Saddam had no WMD, the reason Bush gave for illegally invading Iraq. There were no Al qeada operating in Iraq before the US occupied Iraq. Saddam hated them as much as the West. As for a destabalising state in the middle east, look to the west my man, about 500 miles to the west.

Answer 1

As some one once pointed out "the big difference between Bin Laden and Saddam is that we don't have Bin Laden's zip code" i.e. The USA couldn't find him, so they opted to go after some one else who they knew where to find.

Answer 2

I think Bush is refusing to sell the Iraq war and has generally ignored the Afganistan campaign. I do think they had tried to sell the war, yet the general media ignored everything and printed lies and Bush got discouraged and stopped.

Lies that were printed by the media: Iraq is falling in a Civil War.
Truth: The majority of fighting is taking place in two or three cities with the population and size of California. Just because there is a riot in Los Angeles doesn't mean the whole state has riots.

Lie: 600,000 died in Iraq since the second attack on Iraq
Truth: The figure is closer to 130,000- 150,000 and this figure is an estimate of everyone that ever died including those from auto accidents and old age.

Lie: No WMD were found
Truth: About 500 shells were found. Although they may have aged, they could be reloaded and were suppose to have been destroyed. Recently The Bush administration posted Saddam's papers on Saddam's progress in making an atomic bomb. Critics said it was too detailed and to take it off so the administration did. If Saddam was 10 years away from a Nuclear bomb then, he would have been 7 years from an atomic bomb now.

Lie: Iraq had nothing to do with terrorism.
Truth: Papers seized said that Saddam was funding terrorist organizations.

Lie: Sanctions were working.
Truth: Saddam was getting off the oil for food scheme.

Things not mentioned in the general press:
That over 500,000 Iraqis will have been trained as police or soldiers by the end of this year. Fifty percent of Iraq will be turned over to the democratically elected government of Iraq by the end of this year. Over 1,000 structures have or will be built including schools and hospitals.

Answer 3

The U.S is not like it was before the fifties or during the Cold War.
Istead of fighting strong countries for the goodness of mankind small weak countries who hate America's ENEMIES are attacked
instead.Its just this propaganda thing.So the world understands how good the U.S is at attacking its weak targets with little defense.They could not find Osama Bin Laden so instead they
invaded Iraq so that the world still understands that the U.S is
a "superpower".Thats what bullies at school do.If they cannot fight a opponent that will put up a good fight he leaves them and beats up the weak to show how strong he/she is.Its just so that
the American people can say "who cares we can just nuke anyone who messes with us and use our tactical stealth bomber
planes" everytime terrorists come.Im not saying all of the U.S
wanted to show to the world that they can invade weak little countries its the guy that lives in the White House.The same now
with Iran.The people of the U.S.A especially on yahoo! answers
cand say "we have a stronger military and once we nuke them of the map the Iranian leaders will beg and surrender just like Japan".This is the sort of thing that hppened after Japan was invaded but people came to their senses after Vietnam and North Korea because they found that no matter how many nuclier
bombs are dropped the enemy can simply leave that country and
yet again spread terror its only the citizens that die and Japan
gave up because their people were suffering.Iran will simply make its forces go into Saudi Arabia or Iraq.Now enough with that little speech and to you question sorry about that.

Yes Osama Bin Laden should have been taken care of first
and thats what I mean by the whole bully thing.Every nation
was willing to help the U.S and offer support after 9/11 and
yes even China participated in Anti Terror military excerises
with the U.S and forgot all about Taiwan.But now the U.S is the
most hated among the world and because of Iraq its considered a bully who will not fight more tougher opponents.

Answer 4

1. In most democracies one is considered to be innocent until proven guilty, so it is only an assumption that Osama bin Laden was behind the 9/11 attacks.
2. It's a question of intelligence. I'm not attacking the US president. The CIA trained Osama bin Laden, but failed to understand that he might use the knowledge which they had given him, against the US and their puppet states.
3. Saddam Hussein was the 'blue-eyed boy' for the US during the Iraq/Iran war (thanks to US paranoia concerning Ayatollah Khomeini), so they conveniently ignored the fact that he used chemical weapons against the Iraqi Kurds in 1988. Now, he is being tried for this massacre by a government which is still having its strings pulled by the US.
Doesn't matter how you look at it 2 + 2 don't make 5. And if you play with fire, then you better know that your extinguishers are in order.

Answer 5

Iraq was a long standing intrest of President Bush's since an attempt was made on his father life by Iraq. Any excuse to get Saddam would have done. Bin Laden was just a catalist to start what Bush really wanted.

Answer 6

The decision to go to Iraq was a completely wrong one. It was a complete misplacement of proprities. Bush out of self interest invaded Iraq just to get more oil for its oil companies in Texas. Osama was said to be in Afghanistan before the commencement of the raid on Afghanistan, yet more than five years on they are yet to kill or arrest him. It is beginning to look like Osama was just an illusion in order to make Americans believe in threats and terror. This ofcourse gave the Bush administration the popularity it needed. Now the party is over. The democrats are now in cahrge and the wolrd would definately be happy with their reforms.

Answer 7

Who cares who's first? When you are trying to catch people, how do you know which one you'll catch first? When Hussein was caught first, should we have let him go because you feel he was supposed to be caught second? Should we have told him we would come back for him later--after we find Bin Laden?

Bush was multitasking. He happened to get Hussein first. Bin Laden is still being sought. Many criminals aren't caught for many years. Some in the USA werent' caught until after many decades had passed. Instead of being critical of our president, why don't you help him. You sound like you might be pretty smart, so why don't you figure out where Bin Laden is, and then tell Bush. That way, instead of being viewed as negative, you can be viewed as a hero. Hell, if you can show yourself capable of using your brain to find Bin Laden, instead of just being critical, I'll vote for you to be president at the next election. Bush will understand. Don't sit on the sidelines; get out there and do what's right for America. America needs someone like you. Assuming you have something worthwhile to offer.

Answer 8

The Bush administration needed an excuse to invade irak, since Bush father didn't do it during Kuwait and "Desert Storm" war.
We all know by now that the war in Irak was just an excuse to control the oil supply needed to fuel american gas guzzling cars.
It's ashame that soo many lives and so much blood poured on Irak ground just to fuel
Bush's and Channey's ego of greedy money no matter what.
Oh and Bin Laddin, well I don't see or here Bush realy trying to find him.

Answer 9

Yea probably. But c'mon, Bush didn't go into Iraq because of 9/11. Read the report of the 9/11 Commission.

Answer 10

Two different issues, two different battlefields in the same war.

First, Afghanistan was going to be, by nature, a more limited affair. This is because it is a deeply landlocked country, meaning all troops, equipment and supplies would necessarily be supplied by airlift. This inherently limits the size of operations. Once the Taliban was overthrown and chased into the hills, our ability to search exensively for bin Laden became severely limited. It's all about the supply lines.

He hasn't been forgotten, but he's in deep hiding. Putting a priority on finding him would not be the best use of our troops and would strain our supply capability.

Iraq was a different story, and part of the War on Terror.