What is your personal opinion on "Why Pres. Bush declared war in IRAQ"?

Question

The reason I ask is; Nobody really seems to knows exactly what we are doing over there. What are we trying to prove, or gain?(and don't give me that democracy crap) I really do not know, even as a veteran. But I can tell you this, The President needs to focus on bigger things like, "HIS OWN PEOPLE". We're just gonna continue to lose lives of our soldiers if we don't get out now. Well I'm about to stop writing about it because this subject really works a nerve for me. I appreciate your answers and God Bless.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

1998, 1999, 2000 The other side including the president at the time, said something had to be done. WMD's are Biological and chemical weapons. We know in the 1980's and after the 1st war in 1991 Iraq used them against Iran and then their own people. In 1991 a ceasefire agreement was sign by ALL voting parties at the U.N. In that agreement if Iraq breaks the resolution we had every right to go in and go back to war. You all know 17 resolutions were broken from 1993 on! And the majority of these resolutions were broken in the Clinton administration. Granted that in 2002 our countries CIA FBI and national security had wrong info, but so did Europe, Austrailia,Russian, and China. There is a long list of Democrats including, Hillary Clinton, Sandy Berger, Howard Dean, Joe Biden; to name a few, that also did their own personal investigation with their own source's and all came up with the same conclusion. then they went and voted for the war. Now all are changing the story blaming Bush, and he lied to us! What they do know is YOU and MOST americans will not go back and check their record! If our media would use just 10% of their time to report the good that has happened, then you and others that are uninformed, you may have a different outlook. Someone said haliburton making money... well look back in the early mid 90's under bill clinton, he gave NO BID contracts to Haliburton during the bosnia, serbia conflict! I didn't hear the liberal media or democrats say squat about that. We ALL need to quit using the popular media as our own source of the so called truth! You actually become alot smarter person using your brain, instead of having it filled subliminally.

Answer 3

Well, a lot of people know what we're doing over there.

Particularly the Iraqis who were under lock and chain under Saddam Hussein's regime, where he killed thousands of his own people.

However, securing Iraq will be good for the US because it gives us a centerpiece of democracy to be able to negotiate with. You said you didn't want to hear "that democracy crap", but then if you don't like the answer, don't ask the question. It's a common sense reason why we are there.

We DO have bigger issues, such as border security. I fully agree with you there. But when it comes to losing the lives of soldiers, this war has seen the least of casualties. WW2 saw 14 times the amount of casualties in about the same amount of time.

Ignoring the middle east is not the answer - we've already seen that. Letting vigilantism exist in the form of religious groups to terrorize and recruit innocent people DOES need to stop.

The UN didn't have the guts to make it happen. They allowed their resolutions to be ignored. So to answer your question, because the UN is a bunch of slacks that say a lot, but don't do much else, THAT is the reason we are there.

Some might be willing to gamble who does and doesn't have nuclear weapons. I wouldn't gamble on the middle east not using them. Attached is a video you might find interesting. Or not.

Answer 4

Like many things in life, there is no simple answers. Its a complex set of things...

- WMD was not a valid reason. If they truely believed that, they are more inept than I thought
- Access to oil and supply thereof-- Sadaam wanted to trde oil in Euros, US would have been screwed. A US friendly Iraq would also provide benefits to US oil companies. Sadaam would have dealt with non-US companies.
- Jumping off point to deal with other unsavory regimes in the region. Start with Iraq and then topple the rest of the bad guys there- Iran, Syria, etc. etc.
- Stability in the mid-east. Taking out Sadaam and getting to a better regime there-- that's a failure. His neighbors weren't happy with him either. And Iran is not exactly a nice neighbor either.
- Hedge against Iran. With Sadaam no longer our friend, we have little logistically that can help us if Iran gets more stupid.
- Payback for attempt on Bush 41-- although I think that's really a ruse.
- Money- War is big business for suppliers, contractors and the Industrial-Military complex in general. A great way to subsidize big-business (read corporate welfare).

Answer 5

For the same reasoning the democrats are running from .......Intelligence told the people in Washington DC that Saddam had weapons and wasn't afraid to use them as he had on tens of thousands of his own people.

Everyone of them read the reports -or were supposed to or lied about reading the report and can claim laziness - then Congress voted on giving the president the authority to declare war as laid down by law in the Constitution.
Another thing the Congress swears to read and understand - unless someone asks who is to blame for us being in Iraq.
Then all of Congress points to Bush and hopes the American people are too lazy to read the Constitution.

Answer 6

Since your basic premise of Bush declaring war is so off kilter the rest of it is just as meaningless.

Congress declares war. The Constitution says so. Despite some dropcases on here saying otherwise, the Constitution is alive and well.
People died for unexplained reasons in every war. Fortunately this is a "small" one. But you know that, as a veteran.

Answer 7

I propose you get an impartial historic past e book and get knowledgeable on the basics of yank overseas coverage throughout the time of the last seventy 5 years. once you've finished that, I propose you shut your eyes and picture you're an Arabian who has had to bear the repression, protection rigidity pressures, monetary sanctions and chosen dictators that the country has inflicted on your u . s . a .. ought to you strive against again with the in hardship-free words skill at your disposal, or ought to lie down at the same time as the oppressors have their way which includes your spouse, little ones, faith and u . s . a .? i recognize u . s . a ., yet I concern we've overstepped our moral, moral and evangelical christian bounds. No, the issue gained't flow away with Bush. It began lengthy before Bush at the same time as American leaders concept it our destiny to regulate the aspects and the peoples of the international. i'm particular now to not get factors for this answer, yet when i will get you to p.c.. up a historic past e book, possibly one better faulty American ought to hit upon a foundation to understand there is continuously 2 aspects to each and each tale!

Answer 8

The reasons are many and let me give you a history lesson. 1. Iraq invaded kuwait, looted, raped and pillaged. 2. After they were pushed back to iraq, a U.N. resolution was passed that he scoffed at. 3. he has shot numerous missiles at NATO airplanes patrolling the no fly zone. 4. he denied U.N. weapons inspectors access to numerous facilities. 5. most world governments and most within both parties of our government agreed he had WMD. (still debated and most experts agree they were hidden or shipped to syria) 6. War for oil? unfortunately yes, it is oil that heats our homes, provides electricity, moves our cars that take us to make money that provides food. It sucks, but until we are less dependant upon oil, we will need to exert our influence over that area and no amount of "top secret stuff" can accomplish that goal as well as "boots on the ground".

Answer 9

The war machine keeps your Country rich, the more wars or police actions the USA are in the more $$$$$ for the Country. Oil was another reason, the main reason was to clean daddies mess from the 90's.

Answer 10

Ah, so soon you all forget, or is it you are just too young to remember. Saddam brought death and destruction down on himself.

For years, he arrogantly told the UN to go to Hell. He was given numerous chances over several years to allow full inspections for WMD's. He would not allow full and complete inspections. During all that time, I think he moved the weapons he had to Syria or buried them in the Iraqi desert. He did not think anyone had the balls to finally give him an ultimatum and follow through with military action if he did not comply with the UN sanctions. After 9/11, he gambled wrong. 9/11 changed the playing field on a world scale. Also if Colin Powell had not stopped General Norman Schwarzkopf during the Kuwaiti conflict, this last conflict would not have been necessary. You need to understand that we are at war, and thank God, our Military, and our President for making the hard decisions it takes to keep conflicts overseas and not in our streets.

Please read the following;

General Hawley, is a newly retired USAF 4 star general. He commanded the Air Combat Command (our front-line fighters and bombers) at Langley AFB, VA. He is now retired and no longer required to be politically correct. A true patriot!

"Since the attack on 9-11, I have seen, heard, and read thoughts of such surpassing stupidity that they must be addressed. You've heard
them too. Here they are:

1) "We're not good, they're not evil, everything is relative."

Listen carefully: We're good, they're evil, and nothing is relative. Say it with me now and free yourselves. You see folks, saying "We're
good" doesn't mean, "We're perfect." Okay? The only perfect being is the bearded guy on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The plain fact is that our country has, with all our mistakes and blunders, always been and always will be the greatest beacon of freedom, charity, opportunity, and affection in history. If you need proof, open all the borders on Earth and see what happens.

2) "Violence only leads to more violence."

This one is so stupid you usually have to be the president of an Ivy League university to say it. Here's the truth, which you know in your heads and hearts already: Ineffective, unfocused violence leads to more violence. Limp, panicky, half measures lead to more violence. However, complete, fully thought through, professional, well executed violence never leads to more violence because, you see, afterwards, the other guys are all dead. That's right, dead. Not "on trial," not
"reeducated," not "nurtured back into the bosom of love." Dead.

3) "The CIA and the rest of our intelligence community have failed us."

For 25 years we have chained our spies like dogs to a stake in the ground, and now that the house has been robbed, we yell at them for
not protecting us. Starting in the late seventies, under Carter appointee Stansfield Turner, the giant brains who get these giant ideas decided that the best way to gather international intelligence was to use spy satellites. "After all, (they reasoned,) you can see a license plate from 200 miles away." This is very helpful if you've been attacked by a license plate. Unfortunately, we were attacked by humans. Finding humans is not possible with satellites. You have to use other humans. When we bought all our satellites, we fired all our humans, and here's the really stupid part. It takes years, decades to infiltrate new humans into the worst places of the world. You can't just have a guy who looks like Gary Busey in a Spring Break '93 sweatshirt plop himself down in a coffee shop in Kabul and say "Hiya, boys. Gee, I sure would like to meet that bin Laden fella". Well, you can, but all you'd be doing is giving the bad guys a story they'll be telling for years.

4) "These people are poor and helpless, and that's why they're angry at us."

Uh-huh, and Jeffrey Dahmer's frozen head collection was just a desperate cry for help. The terrorists and their backers are richer than Elton John and, ironically, a good deal less annoying. The poor helpless people, you see, are the villagers they tortured and murdered to stay in power. Mohammed Atta, one of the evil scumbags who steered those planes into the killing grounds is the son of a Cairo surgeon.
But you knew this, too. In the sixties and seventies, all the pinheads marching against the war were upper-middle-class college kids who grabbed any cause they could think of to get out of their final papers and spend more time drinking. It's the same today.

5) "Any profiling is racial profiling."

Who's killing us here, the Norwegians? Just days after the attack, The New York Times had an article saying dozens of extended members of the gazillionaire bin Laden family living in America were afraid of reprisals and left in a huff, never to return to studying at Harvard and using too much Drakkar. I'm crushed. Please come back. Let's all stop singing "We Are the World" for a minute and think practically. I don't want to be sitting on the floor in the back of a plane four seconds away from hitting Mt.Rushmore and turn, grinning, to the guy next to me to say, "Well, at least we didn't offend them."

SO HERE'S what I resolve for the New Year: Never to forget our murdered brothers and sisters. Never to let the relativists get away with their immoral thinking. After all, no matter what your daughter's political science professor says, we didn't start this. Have you seen that bumper sticker that says, "No More Hiroshima’s"? I wish I had one that says, "No More Pearl Harbors."

Answer 11

I think it was over oil, and money. I wish i knew cause my close
friend is coming home from Iraq, and his son will be there soon.
God bless, take care.