the war in iraq?

Question

do you think the war in iraq is neccesary?

Answer 1

Lets see:

A brutal dictator that has killed tens of thousands of his own people, tortured the same if not more.

Sadam did not comply with the agreement his folks signed ending the First Gulf War. Also he fought tooth and nail to delay, hassle, and outright hinder the inspectors from doing their job. Find and verify the destruction of ALL WMD.

Sadam used The Oil For Food program to pay for new palaces and do NOTHING for the people which what the program was supposed to be there for.

Now lets see where we are atm:

A freely elected government
Selected violence in specific areas (mainly Bagdad)
Ethnic violence in those specific areas (although this goes back to the time just after Mohammed died)
Partial reconstituted Military and Police forces
Reconstruction of homes, schools, and hospitals
Peace in the Kurdish areas, and most of the country

So, you have the good and the bad of it all.

Do I think it was just, YES.

Answer 2

The answer to the question depends on what the goal was.

If the goal was to remove weapons of mass destruction from Saddam Hussein or any perceived (real and imaginary) terrorist axis powers, then the answer would be no. There was no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq at the time of the invasion, several years ago. This was evident before the invasion when the US government wasn't able to convince potential allies the location of these weapons.

It was made even more evident shortly after the invasion when there was no rush to find the weapons. There was only talk about suspected capabilities of making such weapons, mixed in with hate-babble against those who were against the invasion.

The supporters of the war (not the government but the supporters among the US population as well as the media) even tried to downplay the situation by claiming that the weapons were smuggled out of Iraq into Syria after the invasion. So apparently, we are led to believe that the US Army can't guard the borders over in Iraq. Some of the things that the supporters said to justify their cause make it sound like the US Army are clueless and incompetent while at the same time, claiming that they support the troops.

If these weapons of mass destruction actually existed, then locating them would have been a top priority as they would have been taken by terrorists -- which would had made things even worse.

In fact, Baghdad, capital of Iraq, wouldn't have been such a high priority on the list. The US Army would have gone straight towards known locations of the weapons of mass destruction first to capture them, then Baghdad to get information on the ones they don't know about. That rolling thunder to the capital is complete nonsense if the goal was to capture these weapons of mass destruction before it gets used by terrorists against Americans.

It is now 2007, one would think that terrorists bent on harming the United States of America would have used these weapons by now against Americans and/or her allies.

If the goal was to liberate the people from a tyrant, then maybe the answer is yes. Saddam Hussein is a mass murderer in the same group as Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler. As I recall, Hussein's family (Uncle I think but don't remember exactly) has ties to the Nazi regime. But why Iraq and not some other country being controlled by a tyrant?

To paraphrase a line from the cartoon, American Dad: We are not here to liberate all countries from tyrants, just those with oil.

Answer 3

Yes, and so did the Dopey Dems when they thought that Hydrant-Head Kerry was going to win the election. They just played a speech by Numbnutz nancy from 2004 whyen she satated that the US needs to surge more troops in Iraq and that she'd vote for that. SHE LIED. Today she said she'd vote against financing more troops for Iraq. I think that dumb biotch would love to see the USA lose.

Answer 4

is the war in Iraq better than lobbing a few bombs then waiting for another attack? i think so.

Answer 5

Absolutely not. Neither does anyone else. Of course, everybody's afraid to say so but that's how things stand. It sure would be nifty if a court order could be handed down to the Spook Agencies to make all their files public without restriction or altering. Including the F.B.I. What wouldn't that turn up!!

Answer 6

Yes

Answer 7

Of course not.It started off as 'shock and awe' and it is still
'shock and awe' with nothing accomplished except for the loss of many thousands of lives.

Answer 8

No, everyone knows it is an elective war.

Answer 9

NO.