How can anyone still think Iraq was based on lies?

Question

Iraq harbored and financed terrorist organizations. Every intelligence agency in the "free" world (dictatorships don't count) said he had WMD's.
The Hussien said publicly on numerous occasions "Death to America"!

Answer 1

No one telling the truth would believe it was based on lies.
The Democrats voted to invade Iraq, but then surrendered.
No surprise.

Answer 2

Actually, there were some that were in the intel agencies that did say there were not any WMD's. Yes, Iraq did finance terrorist orgs, but none that attacked the USA or our interests. There was no link between Iraq and Al-Qaeda, even though Iraq did not con demn the attacks on the twin towers and the Pentagon. How ever, there were countries that did have a direct connection to AlQaeda, such as Iran and Pakistan. The only reason we did not go into Iran was because a lot of their military equipment was made in the USA, because of the Reagan administration (remember Iran-Contra?)

Answer 3

Because nothing had been found. and the evidences were a "make up". In fact some Iraq-gates ruined some Political around the world, in Great Britain for example.
So if allied forces had found something , they had shown it to the world, and you would had seen it in TV.
There is only a possible reason not to show the evidences about mass destruction weapons, and it's that USA were involved in some way(something like "Made in USA")....but I don't really think this, or I don't want to believe.
Saddam's regime was bad, but it was not religious-extremistic, so he kept under control with its iron-hand all the aversive(and terroristic) religious extremistic organizations, so everyone knew before the war that destroy Saddam meant free a lot of extremistic forces, that are really more dangerous.(we discussed about this mouths before the war in my high school, not in a strategic headquarter!!!).

Answer 4

Simple, the weapons of mass destruction were given to Hussein by the Reagan administration. Was Saddam a tryrant? Absolutely, but he needed to be. A democracy won't ever work because the people of Iraq are not yet willing to put their lives on the line for it. The next true leader of Iraq will have to be at least as bad, or more of a tyrant than Saddam was. That was how Saddam maintained order. People were afraid to commit terrorist acts while he was in power.
Now we are burying our fine young men and women while a few line their pockets.

Answer 5

Because there were many lies told, or, at minimum, misleading statements.

Iraq never sought yellow cake uranium.

Those weren't mobile weapons labs. Those were facilities to fill weather balloons that were sold to Iraq by the British. (Funny that we didn't ask the British about that first. Or did we?)

Those aluminum tubes could never have been used to enrich uranium, according to DOE officials.

Hussein did not have reconstituted nuclear weapons.

Iraq never trained Al Qaeda members in the making of bombs and poisonous gases. The area in which this training allegedly happened was outside Iraq's control and under U.S. surveillance. No proof of it has been found.

The chemical weapons "stockpiles", if they existed, were well beyond any usable state given their age.

Al Qaeda considered Hussein a threat, not a potential partner in crime.

There are people all over the world that say "Death to America", but we don't invade all those countries! Saddam was a two-bit dictator under constant U.S. air surveillance who liked to rattle his sword every now and then to stir up patriotism amongst the Iraqi people. Exclamations like that don't prove anything.

Do some reading about what the Bush Administration said & when they said it, and you'll see that a great many of the things they said weren't true (accidentally or intentionally). At minimum, the Bush Administration mislead the American people. At worst, they lied to us.

Answer 6

The first justifications for war made before and leading up to March 2003 were all on WMD-based "evidence". The CIA said they weren't totally sure, but the administration cherry-picked the evidence. Colin Powell went before the UN with a 12-year old stolen student thesis paper, for fvck's sake. Even the guy that wrote it said the info was entirely out of date. The UK/French even told us the only WMDs we'd find were leftovers from Iraq/Iran in the 80's. To date, all they've found is 500 useless leftover munitions from that era.

Answer 7

I believe they did have WMD's to certain point and Saddam Hussein was weapon of mass destruction. Killing his own people. On Newt Gingrich's website it says, "Before we toppled Saddam Hussein, Iraq presented a similar threat. We had every reason to believe Saddam Hussein would give or sell weapons of mass murder to a variety of terrorist groups. As has been well documented, Saddam Hussein was closely tied to terrorists and had an interest in aiding them to attack the United States. "

Answer 8

READ ‘KILLING HOPE’ BY WILLIAM BLUM PUNLISHED BY COMMON COURAGE PRESS AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THE SOURCE OF TENSION.
We have all been deceived the media is just a tool of social control. Is democracy really democracy? Read about history and you will understand Democracy is an illusion manifested by the ruling elite in order to give the masses a false sense of security. The idea of liberal democracy is excellent and revolutionary but it has very little meaning to reality. Thomas Jefferson once said “the issue today has been the same throughout history, whether man shall be governed by a small elite or by the people”. There was no WMD found in Iraq and there was no link between Al-Qaeda and Iraq. Hence the war was illegal and based on a lie. Bin laden was a CIA tactician and was funded by the U.S government like many other terrorist such as the contras in Nicaragua and many other dictators in the world. America has also harboured terrorist does that give Cubans the right to rape, pilage and destroy our people and land? The U.S government seems to be employing double standards because they too have harboured a terrorist, which the state of Miami even declared a day in his honour. This person is named Orlando Bosch; to the Cubans he is the equivalent of Osama Bin Laden. What would the reaction of the U.S would be if Bin Laden turned up in Cuba and the government then declared a day in his honour? “What does one call a man who blows up an airplane killing 73 civilians for political reasons; who attempts assassination against several diplomats; who fires cannons at ships…his name is Orlando Bosch, he’s Cuban and lives in Miami...The city of Miami once declared a day in his honour-Dr. Orlando Bosch Day” Blum, W (2004, pg387)
The democratic rule of law suggests that we are all equal before the eyes of the law (this concept is known as legal egalitarianism). However war criminal such as Donald Rumsfield has never been trialled in the Hague (international criminal courts) for authorising the use of torture against detainees, which is a violation of the universal declaration of human rights under article 51 “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” Also the use of depleted uranium that has left may Iraqi infants being unnecessarily born with physical defects. Let us not discuss Muslim states because they have been portrayed as primitive evil society that non can sympathise with (except for intellects) by the media, which is ironic. Let us focus on the cradle of democracy in Europe during the late 1960’s. The people of Greece were being subjected to torture and killings. According to the author William Blum ‘killing hope’ (2004,common courage press) the overthrow of the democratically elected Papandreou government was a collaborative effort between the royal courts, the Greek military, the American military and the central intelligence agency (C.I.A) based in Greece. The situation in Greece was no doubt a violation of human rights as prescribed under the universal declaration of human rights, article 51. The Unites States government has mostly been portrayed as a nation of democracy and freedom, which brings the question forth did they know that they were supporting a military regime that would happily use torture as a common practice? An amnesty international report was also cited by the author. “James Beckett, an American attorney sent to Greece by amnesty international…Becket reported that some torturers had told prisoners that some of their equipment had come as US military aid: a special ‘thick white double cable’ whip was one item; another was the head screw, known as an iron wreath, which was progressively tightened around the head and ears…numerous incidents of sexually oriented torture: shoving fingers or an object into the vagina and twisting and tearing brutally; also done with the anus; or a tube is inserted into the anus and water driven in under very high pressure.” William Blum (2004, pg219)
James Beckets report evidently provides a direct link of torturers being provided with torture equipment by the US government. The brutal techniques stated above, which were used by the military were not the worst no matter how vile it sounds. Amnesty internationals report stated that several victims were told their torture equipment was supplied by the US military. Hence the US government (not the poor manipulated ppl of the U.S) must have known the equipment that was given to the Greek military would have inevitably been used for torture. The main purpose of this coup was for the U.S government to exercise control, which the same thing can be said during the late 1970’s when the CIA assisted Saddam Hussein to assassinate Abdul Karim Qasim in order to gain power (or even south America, Africa, Asia the U.S they have a poor human rights record). American foreign policy contradicts the core principles of human right policies and liberal democracy, which is the main reason why these so called terrorist in south America, Asia and Africa exist.

Answer 9

Kim Jong Il wants death to America...where's the calvary going there. North Korea has nuclear weapons...where's the calvary going there? But I guess since he's Buddhist, he isn't a threat, right? What about Iran: they have all of the above, AND they're Muslim. Do your research before you go shooting off at the mouth, makes it too easy for people like me to prove you wrong.

Answer 10

all of the WMD's we have found were made after the fall of saddam, that is what the morons are talking about. with that being said you are correct, saddam was and still is publicly against the us and financed terror for the past 20 years or sobut so did the US, dont forget who gave him the bio warfare, we did. now we are trying to fix that mistake.

Answer 11

Saddam threatened to start trading in Euros instead of American Dollars in the near future....that freaked out the government...it's going to happen eventually and all these little fusty arguments will be meaningless when the American dollar isn't worth the paper it's printed on.