Who is responsible for the war?

Question

It seems that many people here think President Bush is responsible, and he personally started the war to further his own hidden agendas, and to further the interests of big business. Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Al Qaeda/Taliban start it by murdering over 3,000 innocent American civilians?

OK wisdomforfools, what was Bush's own purposes?

Answer 1

You are right.

Answer 2

Most Jews would say that not all Jews support the Neocons, but .....

By Joel Leyden
Israel News Agency

"...Jerusalem----April 2.....The American Jewish Congress today congratulated Paul Wolfowitz on his election as the president of the World Bank.

In Israel, The Jerusalem Post had selected Paul Wolfowitz as its Man of the Year for 2002. The Post stated: "On September 15, 2001, at a meeting in Camp David, Wolfowitz advised President George W. Bush to skip Kabul and train American guns on Baghdad. In March 2003, he got his wish.

"When President Bush says, "America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons" -- that's Wolfowitz talking. When the president calls for "a new Arab charter that champions internal reform, greater political participation, economic openness and free trade" -- that's Wolfowitz's talking, too..."

and the book by Pearl & Frum "An End to Evil"

Answer 3

Depends on what war you're referring to. If it is the Iraq war, the link between Al Queda and Iraq hasn't been sufficiently demonstrated, and intelligence reports, whether British or American are flawed. In other words, no connection exists between Iraq and September 11 events.

As for the Taleban, they are a Frankenstein of the US as they were encouraged (included Bin Laden himself) by the US during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.

If someone is responsible for "the war" that someone is the US and all White House incumbents since the eightees.

Answer 4

Which war are you referring to? Most of the supposed hijackers were Saudi's, not Iraqi's. Even the 9/11 commission could find no link between Hussein and 9/11. Furthermore, it was our invasion of Iraq that opened up it's borders to whatever fundamentalist Islamic organizations are there now. As far as the Taliban goes- we had no problem supplying them and the Northern Alliance with weapons when Afghanistan was at war with Russia.

Answer 5

you are right to a degree....but Liberals are not generally against taking war to the terrorists...they just believe that this war could have been held back to be in a better position to use our military in a wiser and more surgical way.....a few hundred thousand (minimum) civilian deaths is not surgical and will cause us to lose allies in the important war against terrorism. forget WMD's and Saddam and a "possible" link to terrorism...where was the pragmatic, machine-like ruthless efficiency of our revenge against the terrorists...I haven't seen it yet.

The 2/3 of Democrats who voted for the conflict in Iraq were convinced by the way Bush showed the evidence and was on the heels of Afghanistan....there was a high level of patriotism and a need to get even and destroy our enemies....but it seems Bush used us all (took advantage of this need) to go after a bigger prize, the whole Middle East.

Answer 6

I didn't hear any words of going to war anywhere until
after 911 happened. So, it must have been those dang
terrorists that killed over 3000 innocent civilians that
started the whole thing. Anyone who was president at
that time, would have had to take some kind of action.
If Bush had shrugged his shoulders and said, "well,
there's nothing we can do about this"....oh my, we would
never ever have heard the end of what a wimp and loser
he was. He wasn't a wimp and went after the guilty. But,
maybe it was more than he thought it would be. It would
have been just great if things had stopped after the downfall
of Saddam, and then ended. This is a different kind of war
as the enemy goes after the enemy and the innocent unlike
other wars where two armys fight it out.

Answer 7

Yea, they started the war on terror which should have involved us capturing Osama bin Laden and decimating the Taliban and Al-Qaeda., protecting our borders...

Saddam and Iraq had nothing to do with our objectives.

Answer 8

Iraq didn't have anything to do with that.No.not at all. zip. no way, its a fact.history, its in the books now, they didn't have anything to do with it at all. what about The Iranians,or Syrians,of Saudis,or Lebanese,or all the other Arab country's who have terrorists in them,were to attack and take over all Arab country's?why did Bush Pick Iraq? I don't know, but it had NOTHING at ALL to do with terrorist actions against us,.Hussein didn't like terrorists.he didn't want them in his country,he hated them, he wouldn't put up with them,he didn't care in the least about terrorist actions against our country, but we cause over half a million Innocent deaths in that country.for what?YOU tell the half a million peoples family's why we killed there family's. or caused their deaths.so lets say an Arab neighbor killed your friend then your to kill ALL Arabs.maybe you don't like someone,you kill their family?.you make NO sense at all,.those Iraqis had NOTHING at ALL to do with 911.You don't know that by now?, where have you been? in a cave?the president of these united states said that.NO, they didn't have anything to do with 911. whats your problem?you don't understand English?Bush Sr was having dinner with some members of the ben ladin family at the time of the attacks.should we bomb him? NO.where is Ben ladin.??? where is he?

Answer 9

You seem to be one of the hopeless cases, but I will try anyway. Iraq had no connection to 9/11. Iraq had no WMD's, Iraq did not pose an immanent or immediate threat to the security of the United States. Bush started the war for his own purposes.

Answer 10

You are right sir ! Unfortunately, we did not go into Iraq legally/ No war was ever declared ! I believe that Israel had a lot to do with this war/ Remember they destroyed an Iraqui nuclear power plant in a so called " preemptive strike " - The most ridiculous thing I have ever heard ! Bush would not possibly let Israel go to war against Iraq / Remenber ? OIL, OIL, OIL, oil !

Answer 11

Bush is responsible for the Iraq War.