why do you think the United States started the war with Iraq?

Question

There were no weapons of mass destruction. In my opinon, the country was in better shape with the 'Saddam Hussein' rule.
There have been a lot of major mistakes---number one sending our national guard troops in first....I would go on about the reasons we should not be there, but the Iraq people want us out, so I think we should leave. Why does America not support their own?

Answer 1

Great...

You got an idiot and a simpleton to answer an extremely important question.

bush's (Small "B" intended) father wanted to go into Iraq but chose not to because of a lack of a definite exit strategy. Clinton was also planning the same thing. His problem was also the lack of an exit strategy, until that Monica thing, then they gave up entirely. It wasn't politically expedient after that.

Now with that, the American people are REALLY confused! Especially with bush v.II keeping most of the advisors that bush v.1 had. Why on earth would bush v.2 chose to wage war when both of his predecessors, including his own father decide against it?

It's purely conjecture but maybe with the obscene amount of money to be made this time, it seemed to be worth it? Could it be that with things changing in the middle east, they felt that a presence in the middle east was required? Since it appears we will be there forever, and most likely have bases there even longer.

All we know at this point is that the reasons we were given have proved to be false. We don't know the real reasons.

And unfortunately, those in charge of this debacle wil remain unaccountable, and as time goes on, the reasons why become less and less important. We are there, and what the hell do we do now?

Answer 2

The three biggest lies:
1. The War was About Oil
There are two flavors to this argument. The first was popular before the war, and held that the United States would invade Iraq and take the oil. Given that this didn't happen, and that the Americans are helping to rebuild Iraq (against “insurgent” attempts to thwart the process by destroying pipelines and terrorizing the population), this is no longer believed by anyone except the most hopeless anti-American conspiracy nuts.

The more reasonable version of the argument is that America’s only interest in Iraq is to see that the country’s oil reaches the international market. The problem with this theory is that the only thing keeping Iraqi oil off the market prior to the war was American-supported sanctions.

The sanctions wouldn’t have been there in the first place if Americans were only interested in oil. Nor would America have gone to war over oil, since it would have been far easier to simply drop the sanctions… if oil was really the issue.

As it turns out, the only people selling their souls for oil were the European opportunists, such as George Galloway, who were paid millions in oil allotments by Saddam to moralize against the war. Fortunately for them, they aren't American, therefore no one in Europe really cares.

2. America Started the War
In fact, the war began in 1990 when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. Instead of officially ending, hostilities were suspended in 1991 with a conditional armistice. In order to retain personal power, the Iraqi dictator had to agree to unrestricted weapons inspections by the UN, among other things.

Over the course of a dozen years, Saddam violated every part of the agreement that he thought he could get away with, much to his own people's misery. Even so, he was given every opportunity to avoid war, including an eleventh hour offer of safe passage out of the country and a life of luxury in exile.

He continued to flout the terms of the armistice by barring inspections, which must be considered a blatantly unnecessary provocation by those who now believe that he had nothing to hide. Unless international law isn't meant to be respected (which is an entirely different debate), the UN had no choice but to authorize military action to enforce its own resolutions.

Therefore the war wasn't started by America. It was insisted on by Saddam Hussein.

3.The War is based on a lie. Bush Lied about WMD’s
George W. Bush never claimed to have been to Iraq. Rather, both he and Tony Blair deferred to intelligence reports and, at the same time, complained that their sources were limited by the fact that Saddam would not allow inspections under the agreements that ended the Gulf War; nor would he respect numerous UN mandates to allow unrestricted monitoring.

Though rare, there are some in the world who allege that Bush knew the reports were wrong (in some mysterious fashion), but went to war under false pretenses anyway. This would certainly qualify as a lie, but it also defies common sense and probably speaks to the ignorance, delusion, or dishonesty of the person making such an assertion.

For obvious reasons, first-term American Presidents do not send troops into combat with a primary justification that they know will be proven false before the next election. Neither do second-term Presidents for that matter, since the fallout would have devastating consequences for their political party, to say nothing of personal conscience.

Ironically, those most critical of America over the relative absence of WMDs also happen to have been the most sympathetic toward Saddam’s manipulative shell games that made the war necessary in the first place. Their shallow and unbalanced moralizing gave the dictator confidence that the American President would never follow through with his threats to hold his government accountable under the WMD inspections agreements that it signed. Saddam never believed that he would wind up in a spider hole or in a hangman's noose.

Had the world united against Saddam Hussein and required that he honor international law, then the war would never have happened and the good people of Iraq would still be living under his sublime and gentle hand.

Answer 3

the reason why the United States go to war against Iraq is for 9/11 in that time this administration need to selected the perfect candidate so they pick Iraq because they believe
was an easy target plus this war was to demonstrate to all terrorism networks you can't mess with the big bear..

The problem of this Administation they never take this War seriously
maybe and I say again maybe mr Bush wake up now lets see what is going to happen next year.,


in the current Status Quo in Iraq The United States of America they will never win this war because Iran and Syria they supply the Iraq war with men and weapons..

if we want win this war we have to isolate Iraq from any suppliers
then we have to kill all men and women against the new Iraq Government in some case include the child especially who grow up with the martyr ideology..

estimate years for success in this mission 15 to 20 years
estimate cost for United States 2597 billions
estimate US Casualties in Iraq 44000

and remember that was the easy target
we just need to start to kick butt with less politics
that is the key!!!

this is a bloody war.!!!

Answer 4

Too many questions in one setting. I'll answer the one on why we went to war with Iraq. There WERE weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Saddam moved them out before the US invasion. He moved them to Syria. This was confirmed by an Iraqi general and the Israeli secret service. Washington knows this to be true but they do not wish to start more trouble with Syria. Some day....they will.

Answer 5

We did no longer start up or make a "first strike" in Iraq. The Iraq conflict surely started in 1991. On August 2, 1990 Saddam invaded Kuwait, one in each of our allies. We struck decrease back with Operation desolate tract hurricane in 1991. On January 17. 1991 usa began bombing operations on the Iraqi invaders. That conflict replaced into no longer desperate. It replaced into in basic terms in a state of "stop hearth" in accordance to a mutual contract Saddam signed. For the subsequent ten years he mechanically violated the words of that contract. the U. S. and the UN stored sanctioning him and passing determination after determination warning Saddam. Operation Iraqi Freedom began on March 20, 2003. some communicate over with it by using fact the 2nd Gulf conflict yet surely, it replaced into the resumption of the 1st that replaced into in basic terms in a state of stop hearth. usa has in no way "struck first". *

Answer 6

Imperial hubris?
We thought we were indestructable, and figured no one would care about faulty reasons for a war when the war ends in a couple of months. There were a bunch of neocons in the White House (Rumsfeld, Cheney, Feith, Wolfowitz) who thought that Iraq was the perfect opportunity to go in and set up a democracy. They thought that if they could make Iraq a stable democracy, then all of the other mideast countries would follow suit, and Israel would be much safer. Boy were they wrong.

Answer 7

Because of Neo Conservative DREAM to change and Democratize middle East and bring every one under the control of West.Don't forget Oil is biggest business in the World.Unfortunately the dream did not come true mainly because of haste and poor planning.

Answer 8

It's simple. Bush lied and invaded Iraq on bogus and false information as a ruse for his real purpose. To control the amount of oil Europe and Asia receive. Osama who?

Answer 9

well it definetly wasnt in better shape with Saddam but the reasons for declaring war were ****.
Bush is finishing Daddy's job

Answer 10

Just pride. Bush want to show us that by controlling a country he is more powerful and rich than anyone else.