A few days after the event I remember someone told me that we should do nothing... that these terrorsits groups want us to live in fear, change our lifestyle, and bring war to the middle east. This idea was shocking to me because it came from a conservative republican. I wanted Osama's head on a platter... and I'm mostly a democrat. Have we have fallen for the trap laid out by the terrorists? Afghanistan seemed very clear and that our actions were justified since that government was harboring these terrorists. Iraq was never so clear in my mind. However, Saddam is a bad dude and I'm glad we got him.
2006-11-24 07:49:03 · 13 answers · asked by timespiral 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
US should have gone to Afghanistan and gone right after Bin laden and finished the job not change the course and go to IraQ
2006-11-24 07:51:15 · answer #1 · answered by JS 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
9/11 was a tragedy, of course, but the response was crude and ill-thought through. I still can't get over the complete refusal in the US - or UK - to countenance - (or even permit...!) - any seriously searching public questions as to what could have motivated it...
We love saying 9/11 happened "BEFORE Iraq" - as if that means 9/11 happened out of a clear-blue-sky for no good reason...! Whereas nobody is allowed to so much as mention three immensely influential things that had a lot to do with 9/11 -
(1) round-the-clock bombing patrols over Iraq for 12 years following the first war on Saddam's Iraq in 1991...
(2) relentless sanctions imposed on Iraq throughout those same 12 years - responsible for the deaths of some 3 million children.
(3) double-standards applying to Israel and the Palestinians
2006-11-24 16:19:34 · answer #2 · answered by TruthHurts 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In hindsight... which is 20/20 it's easy to say things should have been done differently in Iraq. Many of both sides of the political arena who are bashing the war in Iraq, were very much for it in the beginning. It seems that everything would have been better to have concentrated on Afghanistan, but with Saddam, who knows what role he may have played in the terrorist game by now had he been left in power.
2006-11-24 15:57:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
It think the fact that stuff doesn't add up about the 9/11 commision report should be enough to harald a new investigation. The report says they can't explain why tower 7 collapsed or more simply that the given reason doesn't make sense. We should look into the incident at a deeper level and not just about our response. If we understood why it happened then we can better gauge what to do about it.
2006-11-24 16:11:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They commit a mass murder and we don't investigate anything and start a war with Iraq. Obviously we should have done something different... have you noticed we still don't have Osama's head on that platter? Obviously we needed a military response, but we should have done our homework, followed the money, and gotten everyone involved. Instead we did the opposite... we got the least important members of the organization and started a mess. Al-Qaida couldn't have asked for a better result than that.
It's kind of like what we did with the torture scandals... the Bush administration's legal department and Donald Rumsfeld started instituting torture policies, then when photos came out, we punished the soldiers, leaving the ones who gave them the orders free.
2006-11-24 15:56:45 · answer #5 · answered by Aleksandr 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We did the right thing by going into Afghanistan, but I
think Iraq could of waited a little while longer, but we did do the right thing by capturing Saddam and killing his two sons.
2006-11-24 16:05:04 · answer #6 · answered by Vagabond5879 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe we are fully justified in the war. Maybe we could have developed a better strategy, but war is unpredictable business. If it were my call, we would also be in Iran and N. Korea as well. The thing that liberals can't seem to understand is this: when you sit back and do nothing to stop tyranny and terror, you become a tyrant and terrorist yourself.
2006-11-24 15:56:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It could not be ignored, but to live in fear gives power to those who want you to live in fear. I agree with you about Afghanistan and Iraq, however I have always felt that we should have finished in Afghanistan before ever going for Saddam.
2006-11-24 15:54:10 · answer #8 · answered by jerofjungle 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wonder why liberals think our outcome would look different if we had done in Afghanistan what we are doing in Iraq?
Who am I to say what should have been done in hindsight. Any response would have been right in ways and wrong in others.
Iraq is right in ways and wrong in others.
We need to focus on where to go from here. And quickly.
2006-11-24 15:53:50 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
i think we went to the wrong place to start the war. It seems that Syria and Iran would have been better places to hit and Saddam would have helped us fight them. and we still do not have the right to get Saddam no more than we got the right to go get Tony Blair or any other president from any other country.
2006-11-24 16:16:53 · answer #10 · answered by roy40372 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋