How was Iraq a threat to the US before we went to war there?

Answer 1

there wasnt

Answer 2

The reason Iraq is tactically important has very little to do with any threat directly raised in that country or its oil revenues. Its more about where it is located within the middle east. All supplies that go from a country like Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Lybia, Egypt, Afghanistan, Turkey, Jordan must at some point or another be transported through Iraq. Because of pressure from factions within these countries the Iraqi Government that was formally in place had become severely perverted, straining itself, the community of the middle east, and its very own people.

Answer 3

Are you willing to do some research? Try this topic "No fly zone" for the period 1991 thru 2001. See how many times US Planes were shot at, lit up with anti-aircraft missiles and radar. Next topic "Desert Fox" that's when Clinton decided Iraq was a threat and bombed him for a few days. Desert Fox II - Clinton again bombed Saddam because he was a threat to enforcing the no-fly zone. Also research Shiite massacre circa 1991. Right after the persian gulf war when Saddam waged war against the Shiites who wee trying to overthrow him after the coalition cease-fire. Last 2 topics - Iraq violations of UN resolutions and Iraq refusal of UN weapons inspectors. If he didn't have any WMD why not let them inspect (because he was moving them around).

Answer 4

The only threat to US from Iraq is people are scared of foreigners they do not understand, which has happened a lot throughout history. The United States has also repeatedly made mistakes in starting wars such as the Spanish-American war over "Remember the Maine." when in fact as per Admiral Rickovers book the USS Maine blew up do to TNT sweeting and the ammunition magazine blew up internally. Also many will tell you the Vietnam War was a mistake over natural resorces found only in Vietnam such as the element Cobalt. 'The Penman of the Revolution', John Dickinson, once spoke of the hopeless cause as to do away with the tyrant King as another tyrant would just come along and ruin it all such as President Woodrow Wilson who invaded multiple countries and hated African/Americans. But alas there is talk in a Masonic Book of the 1930's of a man that will come and avenge his children and die in Eygypt and be reborn in France (1 out of 3 ain't bad) and one day society will learn to vastly improve the Social Contract and tyrants will never come again in a much more peaceful law abiding society of seeing constitutions posted on the wall. I recommend Star Trek Voyager episode Bliss and National Treasure movie, both of which are government input to Hollywood like all those Sliders episodes. Crap; it almost worked!

Answer 5

because (1) there was a rogue dictator who killed his own people indiscriminately (compared to the rogue dictators in North Korea or Iran who we either would or could not take on), and there was (2) a(n unreasonable) belief that this rogue dictator had weapons of mass destruction that he would launch against the U.S. (or more likely Israel as he did in the 92 Gulf War), and (3) there was a(n extremely unreasonable) belief, backed by propaganda but not much evidence, that Saddam had ties to the 9/11 terrorists

If the point of the first Iraq war was (1) (which is the post-hoc justification by the GOP) I wish we had just stated that up front, so, like Clinton getting involved in the former Yugoslavia, we could have debated the merits, got a true international coalition, and treated it as a humanitarian effort. If it was (2 or 3), I wish we could have had a serious debate as to the truth of those statements, and I wish our Congress had asked for more proof before authorizing force. What we learned was that we simply can't trust our executive for facts when war is on our mind, because most of us simply were brainwashed.

Answer 6

If Bushie was so concerned about terrorism he would have focused his attention on Afghanistan, HUH whats Afghanistan you might ask, its another country we are at war with, that has harbored OSAM BIN LADEN, but Bushi took resources that could have been spent getting OSAMA and placed it in a location where we could get at the second largest oil reserve IRAQ, we already controll the largest oil reserves SAUDI ARABIA

BUSH SUCKS

Answer 7

To put it briefly, Iraq was mostly a threat to Israel.

Answer 8

There was no threat.If the weapons inspectors had been allowed to do their job to the finish,they would have said there were no WMD's.
Saddam was a tyrant and an evil man but he wasn't a threat to the US

Answer 9

Weapons of Mass Destruction....BUT remember Bush went against the U.N.'s decision, starting the war...logically, NO REASON!!

Answer 10

He destabilized a region in the 90's. He signed an agreement to stop the war, and then would not abide by that agreement. Just twist it anyway you want to.

Answer 11

YOUR icon is totally cool , and yes something had to be done with our allie Suddam(oh wait that was 15 years ago),our axis of evil dude , Larry the cable guy....I mean Suddam.