Why are we fighting in Iraq?

Question

If I remember correctly, the excuse Bush gave for us going in there in the first place was "weapons of mass destruction" even though he had access to intelligence reports that said they were nonexistent. So how did Iraq become the great terrorist-fighting arena? Wasn't it the Taliban in Afgahnistan that was supporting Bin Laden? Of all the militant Islamic nations in the Middle East, wasn't Iraq a fairly secular country? Is Dubya hoping that we forgot? Or what????

By the way, let's not simplify this question by talking about how bad Sadam was. We all know there are horrible men like him in many other countries that we aren't choosing to invade.

And why can't some people have a civilized, intelligent debate or disagreement without resorting to name-calling? Are they that insecure in what they believe that they feel it necessary to attack someone else by calling them "idiot"? It's a shame and it does nothing to improve their credibility.

Answer 1

You know, I haven't figured that one out myself. I thought this war was about protecting us from WMD but once they went in there they essentially found nothing. I feel that Bush went into office wanting to finish the job in Iraq that his father failed to do years ago when he was in office. Bush had his own agendas going in there and they had nothing to do with terrorism.

BTW the hijackers of those planes were mostly from Saudi Arabia. Doesn't it make you wonder why our country considers the Saudis to be allies??? And I do agree that we should be in Afghanistan looking for the mastermind behind 9/11 if this is what this war is all about...

Our country has alot of enemies because our government acts as though we can single handedly take out all of the "bad guys" out there...

Answer 2

Because the Bush Administration's Ultra Conservative PNAC naive political theory that if we establish a foothold in the Middle East that American style democracies will spring up and American hegemony in the oil producing states will enhance our national interest.

They just didn't figure on reality biting them in the assumption.

If only we could get out of Iraq and back to hunting down the terrorists............. Iraq is off mission.

Answer 3

I'm 90% sure that there was another reason why we invaded and we probably won't know of it for years. It could be anything to securing our countries supply of oil to stoping china from build a road to the Middle east.

Answer 4

it is to please the illuminati ,they want to stop the world from finding out vital secrets of our beginnings ,
Irak is their home base ,Babylon was there ,so were the cities of Ur and Mu.as well as the archeological site of the gasrden of eden and on an island in a dried out lake ,that shows signs of irigation infrastructure as well as buriel mounds with skeletons of giants theat had lived to a very old age (hundreds of years )these could only have been the Nephilim

Semuria was in irak and the tower of babel.and the landing place of Noahs Ark
there are suposed to be many ancient underground tunnels
and the place must hold thousands of secrets
the illuminati know what these are and do not want any body else to know.
the oil is a smoke screen

Answer 5

by the way, we can't be everywhere at once, and by the way, we are making the world safer. and by the way, maybe if people like you would give him some support, we could move on faster and get back into afghanistan. bin laden has been forced ot hide, and hasn't attacked us for 5 years, for now, we are holding him to nothing. When iraq is stable, we will move on.

Answer 6

We are fighting beacuse of 9/11. Because of the evil people that blew up the World Trade Center. God Bless America. :)