Why we should be at war in Iraq?

Question

I have a paper to write and Im needing reasons why we should be at war in Iraq.

Answer 1

1) Saddam's Iraq violated thirteen different UN resolutions for the cease fire to the Persian Gulf War. Violating one could have been just cause to resume hostilities. We gave them thirteen chances, and Saddam blew it.

2) Saddam's Iraq was supporting terrorism by paying the families of suicide bombers a small fortune for their "services."

3) Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator guilty of many atrocities.

4) Saddam Hussein used chemical and biological weapons on his own people on multiple occasions.

5) The Clinton and Bush administrations agree that Saddam was developing weapons of mass destruction. President Clinton went so far as to say that Saddam would use them once he had them in his possession. President Bush believed that Saddam already had them, and he may have. Due to the treatment of the UN Weapons Inspectors, we will never know for sure. Large amounts of yellowcake have been found in Iraq by our troops.

6) We are doing a lot of good over there now. We are helping to build a democratic Iraq, just like we did in Germany and Japan after WWII.

7) Leaving now would turn the civil unrest in Iraq into full blown civil war, and the country would probably devolve into a clone of Iran or would be run by warlords like Somalia.

8) More than 3,000 American servicemen and women have died in Iraq in an attempt to give freedom and democracy a foothold in the Middle East. Pulling out now would cause those lives to have been lost in vain.

Answer 2

To rid the world of the Islamic fascists that want you dead! We desperately need success in the region. If we do not stabilize Iraq and insure a foothold for the Allies in the region, then it is only a matter of time before Iran, Syria will take over. If we do not have a solid democratic friend in the middle east, there will be chaos like you have never seen before. Saddam was an evil dictator. America was damned if we do, damned if we don't. All the Hollywood libs cry over the genocide in Darfur....what is any different about that than what Saddam was doing to his own people? We had every right to go to Iraq. Saddam had broken 17 UN resolutions that were a result of the Cease Fire in 1991. If we had not liberated Iraq when we did, ten years from now there would be WMD fully developed as well as the Hollywood libs crying that we did nothing to help those people. It would be comparable to Hitler. We should have taken him out long before he had the chance to kill 6 million Jews. This time we were more proactive and took care of business before more people were killed. America is beaten up when we take action. We are also the first to be blamed when something bad happens...where were the Americans...why didn't they stop this from happening...blah blah blah. I for one am proud to have a President that stands on principle instead of worries about his popularity standing. So, you ask why we should be at war in Iraq? The reasons are numerous, open your mind and don't look at the issue through the tainted, Bush slamming, Bush hating eyes of the main stream media. Look through the eyes of the soldiers who see the gratitude of a nation of people who are thankful.

Answer 3

This article, written for an Oil & Gas publication-just before the war- says in part "The Iraqi oil is classified as a “non-secure” source, yet the US is the largest consumer of Iraqi oil. "

http://www.wtrg.com/EnergyCrisis/

Then this:

Iraq has the world’s second largest proven oil reserves. According to oil industry experts, new exploration will probably raise Iraq’s reserves to 200+ billion barrels of high-grade crude, extraordinarily cheap to produce. The four giant firms located in the US and the UK have been keen to get back into Iraq, from which they were excluded with the nationalization of 1972. During the final years of the Saddam era, they envied companies from France, Russia, China, and elsewhere, who had obtained major contracts. But UN sanctions (kept in place by the US and the UK) kept those contracts inoperable. Since the invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003, everything has changed.

http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/oil/irqindx.htm

This a report for congress:

Iraq’s potential oil wealth remains largely unrealized. Substantial proven reserves exist, and there are likely more resources awaiting discovery. But oil production has been slow to fully recover during the post-Saddam period, and many obstacles stand in the way of achieving a stable export flow. Moreover, refineries are in need of rehabilitation, necessitating imports of gasoline and cooking fuel within Iraq.Despite these difficulties, the existence of vast resources suggests easy exploitation
and lucrative export earnings that could help fund Iraq’s redevelopment. But the sheer resource size masks the difficulty, described in this paper, of generating export revenues
that could fund reconstruction and development and offset several appropriations approved by Congress. This report will be updated as events warrant.

http://www.export.gov/iraq/pdf/iraq_oil_0406.pdf

Answer 4

According to President Bush, we are there for 2 reasons:

1) To free Iraq from an evil despot, Saddam Hussein, which we have done;

2) To rid the world of a great threat of terrorism. Supposedly Iraq has terrorists that could bring grave danger to the United States.

Answer 5

You have 18 answers and none of them mentioned the Israeli lobby factor see this you may have a real answer to Iraq war and the next war called Iran war.

Answer 6

This week Bush says it's all about establishing democracy for the people of Iraq. In other words, nation building.

Answer 7

against the Iraq conflict yet on account that we began it we would desire to end it. of direction there is the possibility that with Saddam in potential we would have ultimately had to bypass to conflict quicker or later. Who is familiar with? I in basic terms think of the money might have been extra appropriate spent in the country on kin potential progression. innovations you, i'm no longer some fool who's blindly anti-conflict or anti-protection rigidity. till relatively everyone in the international ceases to be aggressive there'll continually be a choose for a protection rigidity. as long as international places compete for land and materials there'll be conflict. people who marketing campaign to end all wars or do away with the protection rigidity stay in a dreamworld.

Answer 8

Saddam was a brutal dictator who killed his own people, family and friends.

He ran a terrorist training camp @ Salmon Pak and others.

He activly supported Palestinian terrorists by paying their families $25,000 unpon successful detonation of themselves in Disco's and falafel shops in Israel. More points if they killed just women and children.

Oh, and he liked the Dukes of Hazzard, for that alone he had to go.


To the Libtards that say we are at war for oil, can they show me all this oil we are getting......yeah, I didn't think so. Iraq has oil contracts with Russia, France and several other nations as well as us.

Answer 9

dont lesson to any of the righ wingers or left winger wackos..

there are many reasons for war.. you will hear so idiots say we shouldnt be there.. and others that will say well WMD..or so we thought..

reasons for war are not always clearly seen... take that last thing.. WMD.. you will hear alot of wackos say look we where lied to... but, lets say we didnt go and they had WMDs, what would those same wackos be saying now? it would be something like.. Clinton said he had WMDs and bush didnt do anything and now look.. he used them and killed x number of people... being an arm chair quarter back is always easy.. looking back noone makes mistakes.. so dont lesson to anybody that leans left on this issue... i would point out jimmy carter to you... he sucked as a prez.
but, one might say as long as we are in iraq the terriorist will also be there and wont be in our streets.. and as soon as we leave iraq... if we leave before the job is done... they will be here.. blowing up class rooms and colleges all over the US... like they did under clinton.. yes we had bombings under clinton.. the world trade center was trucked bombed while clinton was in office and he had a meeting with monic....the USS cole... 2 us embassy 1 military base.. this war will be fought for years to come. but as long as the economy of 3rd world nations are like they are.... you will have wars like this... we have to not only win.. but we have to change the way life is over there... build and economy so people have "things" cars , homes, jobs, things to live for... reading eduction.. also remember it takes longer than 2 years to learn to fly a 747.. so the people that did 9/11 where in school under clinton and noone knew about it

Answer 10

To surround Iran (Iraq on one side Afghan. on the other) and to provide ourselves a launching pad to monitor terrorism and fight it in the M.E. Instead of here in USA. Unfortunately Bush has not done as good a job as he should have. The reason being that the American public is so fickle and that Dem's are traitors to our country.