Does anyone know the REAL reason we're in Iraq?

Answer 1

unless you know someone really high up in the DOD or the White House, you're just going to hear speculation. whatever the reason, though, it's already happened.

Answer 2

I can tell you why we did NOT go into Iraq. OIL! Why would the oil companies that supposedly control Bush want MORE oil. If any thing they want LESS oil. Less oil means higher prices, more oil means lower prices. This is Econ 101. Unless of course the oil companies knew that Iraq would go badly and insurgents would sabotage oil pipelines thereby lessening the amount of oil on the world market, and indirectly increase the power and influence of Iran, and overall create fear and instability in the oil markets thereby driving up prices to historic highs. Damn those evil oil companies! One has to wonder though, if they could predict all this why not just make their money playing the lottery?

Answer 3

Yup pretty sure I have a darn good idea of why we are there. That idea is also why I am fairly confident we are not leaving anytime soon and barring Congress cutting off the money for this war the draft is coming back.

Answer 4

With such an inane question you evidence that you lack the necessary gray matter and intelligence to comprehend the true answer.

Your question attracted quite a room full of parrots who mindlessly babble bogus contra intelligent comments about oil.

Write that down in your little parrot notebooks with your sharp parrot beaks.

Talk to ANY service man or woman who has been to Iraq and get a real lesson on life and liberty instead of sitting back and munching crackers all day.

Answer 5

I think it is about oil but not how these noneducated people think. The fact is that our economy and military depend on oil to survive. We are about to loose our deal with the Saudis with a family change there. Its is a fact that ahmandimijad wants to destroy Isreal, Us and any country that refuses sheriah law. He is backing hezbollah while they try to overthrow the democratic lebanese govt. If we wouldnt have taken out saddam they would have done the same or got him to go along with their plan. I think he actually was already going along with them after being shown by Khoumeini that he didnt stand a chance during the Iraq Iran war. SO. If ahmandimijad keeps Iran, gets control of Iraq and is some how able to talk the saudis into an embargo we are dead in the water. Our economy will collapse and our military will be crippled. he will be able to fulfill his wish and we wont be able to stop him. So we have to either control a part of the oil or set up a govt that will cooperate with us to insure we are not bled dry. Is this fair to Iraq? I dont know but we are doing things for them in schooling, medical care and giving them freedoms they never had as well as actually using their oil effectively, unlike the dems say. see the link below. Now why didnt we just come out and say that. It would be saying we are going to control Middle east oil and that would make a lot of people unhappy, Russia for one who would then be worried about their pipeline since it runs through Iraq. and ofcourse any other country that may have oil that we may go after them too. And ofcourse Iran would then know we are not going to put up with it and my start their plan faster. It is also saying we are goign to be in a religious war with muslims and that would be deadly world wide as well. So we used afganistan to go over their and saddams mass killings to get our foothold.

One other point is remember we came in late to WWII because we hadnt been attack but the world had to have us bail them out. We lost over 1 million soldiers having to go through Africa, Poland and France to free them before we could march on Germany. The weapons are more powerful now and if iran and syria get that strong a foothold in Lebanon, Iraq, Israel and other countries we are looking at millions of deaths if not them using nukes which would be catastorphic.

edit: gary you are saying the exact same thing I am, I may have some flaws in here but the overall logic is sound. the reason I say that is you are saying the exact same thing I am but under the pretext that it is wrong. If you want to discus it verify your email and I will but to resort to name calling and picking parts that I say clearly this is my opinion and not addressing the core of my thoughts is a typical attack and retreat idea. One point take "americanize" out of your statements and put "stabilize" and you have the same points. that is a simantics difference and a spin of is it right or wrong but overall no difference.

and the link was bad sorry. I had the wrong one in my que. this is what I meant to put. and it is a pro dem based link.

Answer 6

goergie thinks he knew more than daddy. and the turk's did not want us to back a independent kurdish country . that would have destroyed iraq without a single us casuality. besides is not iraq in afghanistan where ben whosit was.

Answer 7

Sure bushes dad did not finsh the job an little bush had to have revenge an make good old ***** company with no bid contracts a lot of money haiburton they both need to go to IRAQ an fight right along with our men an women then they could at least say they done something for the USA

Answer 8

You would have to ask the President that. Oh wait, i forgot he has given us 1,000 different excuses to begin with! I suppose that I can surmise that we are there because we needed to refill the pocketbooks of the Military-Industrial Complex, Needed to secure the Oil reserves, Needed another front for the next war with Iran, and kill off more of the population by testing new weapons.

Answer 9

The Gulf War left unfinished business in Iraq. We are trying to finish it.

Answer 10

I do.

We are there to try to stabilize the middle east.

Saddam was the conduit for all terrorist activities in the world. He was a major player in allowing the Taliban to rise to power in Afghanistan and he was working to arm himself with nukes to rule the region. He murdered his own people and was planning on taking over the middle east. He had rape and death squads to oppress his own people. He attempted to take over Iran an Kuwait.

I do wish he had taken over Iran, because then they would be on our side now instead of looking at us as the great Satan. Iran's leaders have become insane.

Bottom line... neutralize Iraq and make it free. Than make Iran free and democratic and the world would be a safer place.

That's the short answer...... I could go on all night.

Answer 11

probably a combination of george thinking it's somehow his mission as a christian to save the world, giving some kickbacks to his campaign contributors in the form of defense contractors, and stopping opec from thinking they could change to accepting the euro in lieu of dollars for crude oil