i have some questions for y'all?

Question

how did the u.s get involved in the war in iraq?
how can we get out of the situation?
what is the war's effect on the economy?

Answer 1

Some good questions.
1- There are several reasons currently floating around in books and on the net. IMHO, these are most likely: Intelligence reporting as some reason to believe that weapons of mass destruction were resident in Iraq. After 9/11, there was also a desire from some in the administration to "link" Saddam Hussein" with the Al-Qaeda. Militarily, the enforcement of "no-fly" zones was a continual drain on military assets; also there was abundant evidence that the Oil for Food program was being abused (big surprise.) Finally there were some Iraqi exiles predicting that Iraq was ripe for revolt and the institution of democracy.
It was apparently believed that the war would be quick, and the Iraqi's would immediately establish a working govt.
2- Unlike Afghanistan, where it was clear from the outset that the Afghans would have to stand up a govt, in Iraq there was no real plan. If you'll remember, there were the goals: get out the vote, establish a govt, win a significant victory and all will be well. This is partly due to infighting in the cabinet-no real postwar plan was developed. Exiting the situation is most likely to force the Iraqi govt to step up and operate. This means ruthlessly reorganizing the internal security forces to reduce secularism. The US needs to engage ALL neighbors in a regional plan-Syria and Iran are havens for insurgents. I'm no dove, but I personally think we just need to start withdrawing, we have no political will anymore to commit the forces to fully stamp out the insurgency.
3- We've gone from a surplus to a large deficit. It has narrowed a bit, but we're still in the red. This reduces international faith in the dollar, and international investment in, well you and me. The US has seen growth over the past four years, despite what the Democrat left states, but Europe's growth as outpaced the US. Long term, the economy has absorbed $3/gallon fuel and 6% employment-both of which the "experts" said would send us into recession.
Hope that helps a bit
jim

Answer 2

I am assuming you are talking about the second Iraq War so he's my resumé of it.

In 1991, a cease-fire was declared between the Coalition and Iraq. In the ceasefire accords, a number of restrictions(*1) were imposed upon Iraq especially an obligation to comply with restrictions on weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. These were to be handled and treated by a number of U.N. arms inspection commissions. Unfortunately for Iraq, Saddam's regime failed to fully cooperate with the U.N inspection teams & Iraq was imposed economic sanctions. Even worse for Iraq was the creation of an atmosphere that was encouraging the belief that Iraq was actively pursuing the creation of weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles. Add to this the fact that Saddam was actively encouraging and financing militant groups known to be anti-american.

Before Bush was elected, the republican campagne platform called for the "full implementation" of the Iraq Liberation Act and removal of Saddam Hussein with a focus on rebuilding a coalition, tougher sanctions, reinstating inspections, and support for the pro-democracy, opposition exile group, Iraqi National Congress. When elected, the US now had a governement that had a vision to everthrow Saddam's regime.

Following 9-11, the U.S. government increased military operations, economic measures and political pressure on groups it accused of being terrorists, as well as on governments and countries accused of sheltering them. The Taliban government in Afghanistan which had provided support and haven to al-Qaeda was the first to go.(*2)

Iraq was then required to give a full accounting of its weapons programs and to whom (where) it was furnishing (placing) them. It failed to do so. The result was the 2nd (2003) Iraq as the U.S. maintained that Iraq had (among many previous resolutions) United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441 & having done so, the ceasefire was no longer in force. The US then acted accordingly and removed Saddam's regime.

How to get out of Iraq? Million dollar question which is currently undergoing study in the Iraq Study group report (*4). It deals with different areas of US policy: domestic issues such as budget funding and economic processes, military issues including when to begin bringing US troops out of Iraq and how to integrate more of them into Iraqi army units, the foreign political issues of nurturing an effective and unified Iraqi government, and diplomatic issues including calling for direct talks with Iran and Syria. There are four easy options available (1) immediate pullout (2) partial pullout (3) remaining (4) increasing the forces in Iraq. Each has risks and can generate very severe short and long term dangers in Iraq and the general region. I do not see any full withdrawl of or an increase of US forces. Likely, a compromise allowing a slow withdrawl by supplementing US forces with a new Iraqi military will be implimented but this appears to be a loooooooooong and lenghty proces.

The war's effect upon the economy? It has increased military spending (*5). Is it by itself the reason for the current deficits? Maybe, that remains to be seen.

Answer 3

1) The U.S got involved in the war in Iraq for Precedent Bush said that Saddam Hussein was creating something of mass destruction.

2)We can get out of the situation by recruiting allot of human intelligence from agreeing countries to join with Americans to infiltrate the terrorist that are now taking over Iraq since other past leaders including Saddam Hussein.

3)We spend billions of dollars for the military, so now the U.S is in debt again since the time when we use to pay "trillions" of dollars from our past precedents -- Bill Clinton cleared that for us.

Answer 4

Wars are a necessary evil every once in a while for two reasons.

Reason 1 The population needs paring back in the world

Reason 2 People need to make money.
Weapons manufacturing and sales is a money maker
as is the profits to the people who go in and rebuild
everything after it's been blown to bits.

Answer 5

Well, the president, George Bush put the u.s into the war because of the thought of terrorists. As for when we get out of the war, I think we may never unless america changes its ways, but then others have their opinions. As for the econimy i would say is is major because us americans have come to rely on cars which run on oil which majorly comes from the middleast, and since tecniquly the oil comes from the middle east they impose taxes and the price on it.