There are so many other dictators in the world, why did Bush pick Saddam to oust/?

Question

Some other dictators that maim, oppress,kill and threaten children, women etc are in Bhutan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Zimbabwe, Korea, Turkmenistan etc.
Now we know Saddam had NOTHING to do with 911, so out of all the dictators why did Bush pick Saddam?

Answer 1

He was convinced he could finish daddy's fight, gain control of huge oil reserves, and make all his military contractor buddies happy at the same time.

Answer 2

Iran is a Democracy we've 1000's of troops in South Korea and the North has been monitored via the US and Japan militia constantly for the previous fifty six years. Zimbabwe is supposedly a Democracy I have not any concept what shall we earnings from ousting the Bhutanese government. they're truly inocuous. Saudi Arabia is an best pal interior the area and the US has militia bases there, it probably does no longer be a stable precedent to set via toppling a regime which permits your militia to establish there an video show the area i do no longer understand approximately Turkmenistan. Saddam became of course the rogue elephant with the main threat to reason a difficulty - He has attacked the international places of Iran, Kuwait and Israel while he had the possibility. there became no reason to think of he became reformed.

Answer 3

Well for those of you mentioning Iraq and 9/11 as a connection... I'm rolling around laughing. Who among you said that we are forgetting where the 9/11 terrorists came from... What has Suadi Arabia got to do with Iraq? That is where they came from.

WOFFORD 12 said the following
"london got attacked and the terrorist where from iraq "
This is so WRONG it makes me laugh even harder. Every terrorist who attacked London was born and bred in England!

The reason that Saddam was attacked was very simple. He sold his oil in Euros from 2000 onwards through the oil for food program.

Is that a reason I here you all ask? Yes. It works as follows:

1) All oil is sold in dollars.

2) Countries need dollars to buy oil.

3) To get these dollars they have to trade (sell goods) to the US.

4) The US prints dollars for next to nothing and buys goods with them. They are getting something for almost nothing. To use an analogy - imagine you could hit print on your computer and your print would spit out a $100 bill that you could use to buy things. That is basically the US economy.

5) The US runs a trade deficit of 48% (they import 48% more than they export) because of point 4.

6) When countries start selling oil in Euros, then demand for the dollar decreases, oil becomes more expensive for the US to buy and the ability of the US to get something for nothing (point 4 again) is diminished.

6) As demand for the dollar falls more then the country slips into recession and unemployment rockets.

7) To reinforce this point, look at threats to Iran. Think this is all about Nukes? Think again. Most believe that Iran are 10 - 15 years away from one bomb. What did Iran do at the end of 2006. That's right, they began selling oil in Euros. A big hit against the US economy. Venezuela want to do the same. How long before the US invents a threat against them?

8) Iraq was no military threat. Here are a few people that said so. George Bush senior, Condeleeza Rice, Rumsfeld, Clinton... I could go on. These people all changed their minds around the year 2000. Why? Did they get a Y2K bug? Or was that Euro thing that Saddam was doing? The US saw a threat to their economy and decided to deal with an economic situation militarily.

9) Imagine you owned a business. You undercut the prices of the guy down the block and you are raking in the cash. Imagine one night as you are leaving work that a load of blokes turn up at your business, torch it and drag you off and shoot you! Well you have just been a victim of the same business practices that the US used on Iraq.

10) There is no link between 9/11 and Iraq. There were no WMDs found. Saddam did have WMDs in the 80's bought from America but by 200 they were well past their sell buy dates. Thats what happens to chemical and biological weapons. They degrade over time. The US didn't care about Saddam killing his own people until around the year 2000.

So my little brained, neo con, Aerican friends. There is something to think about. You can take it on board and ask yourself if it was right to sacrafice your own countrymen and 600,000 innocent Iraqis (more than Saddam ever killed) for sake of protecting your dollar!

Answer 4

well for years the US has had a problem with Iraq, back in the Clinton administration many urged the white house saying Saddam was a threat...this dates way back...Democrats wanted this , they just didn't act. Bush had to be the dummy and act on intelligence, like we havent received intelligence of this kind before! Oh and of course there's dictators all over the world, but what can you do?!?

Answer 5

All the answers you are getting seem to be conventional thinking. None of them ring true.

Look, the truth is we have been at war with Iraq since the early 1990's. The first gulf war never really ended. We have been shooting at Iraqi ground installations to enforce no-fly zones over the Kurds and Shiites in air space manifestly over Iraq the whole time.

I think Bush got it in his head that we could defeat Saddam, and bring democracy to the whole Middle East. Fat chance, but that misconception played into the hands of a number of other individuals who saw a way to make a quick buck, and you can blame Cheney for that. Then you had Rumsfield that wanted to go down in history as changing the way war is waged. That didn't go so well either.

I think all of the other reasons were simply excuses. That is why we did it. And since we were already at war, Iraq was a good place to test everything. Guess what. It failed. On all fronts.

-Dio

Answer 6

Because dear heart, Saddam was the one who was the most open about backing terrorist actions. And before you say Saddam wasn't backing Al Qaeda. I'll say he may or may not have been backing Al Qaeda but he was backing several other groups. FACT: Saddam was seen (and it was reported on the news) giving $20K (US Equivilent) to the families of suicide bombers. Now who else was doing that? That's the reason. Not Oil. Not US imperialism. Not threats to his family.

Answer 7

We been knew that Osama had nothing to do with 9/11, nobody was fooled. And there are so many dictators worse, much worse that could have, should be dealt with. Remember Joseph Kony- wait, I forgot, only people who like publicity care about Darfur. Well, what about Kim Jong Ill or Ahmedinejad? One has nuclear weapons and I'm guessing Bush is waiting for the other one to create them.

Answer 8

Because he was already making fools out of the UN for not doing what he promised he would do the first time he lost to us.

Because he was known to support terrorists, and after 9/11, any country like that is a special threat.

Because he repeatedly fired on coalition aircraft.

Because every intel group in the world in 2003 thought he had WMD's.

Because Clinton didn't have the balls to do the job ten years ago.

Answer 9

Bush wanted to showoff and kill Saddam because Saddam's army is not so good. So Bush wanted to kill the weaker of the dictators.

He could have gotten his asss kicked if he invaded Venezuela or North Korea. that's why he picked poor Saddam.

Answer 10

He did not single out Saddam because he was a dictator. Contrary to what the news media and some politicians are saying now, Saddam had been stockpiling weapons of mass destruction and dealing with rogue nations to get nuclear weaponry. The U.N. had warned him numerous times to allow inspections or there would be consequences. One of the consequences was invasion to destroy his weaponry. He repeatedly challenged and ignored the U.N., many leaders therein agreed he was in violation, and that is why so many Countries joined in the initial invasion to force him to disarm.

When our troops went in, they had reporters with them, and time after time, it was reported and photographed that stockpiles of protective clothing and gas masks were found to protect their military from chemical warfare. No Country is going to have such gear unless they're going to use it. Chemical warfare was outlawed decades ago, and Saddam was the one who used it on his enemies, the Iraqi people he didn't like (such as the ones named in the trial, and many more than were cited there.)

During the discovery part of the war, many mass graves were opened by the people of Iraq to prove the horror of their lives under Saddam, but it also proved he created and used weapons of mass destruction. Long range missiles were discovered before the U.N. sanctions and ordered destroyed, some were, but some were discovered still there after the invasion. During the Clinton administration, inspectors were refused access, and that's when the invasion countdown started.

As for Saddam having nothing to do with 9/11, a 747 jet used for hijack training purposes was found in Iraq after the troops invaded the Country, and Al qaeda was known to have prepared there for the war against "western" nations.

After the final U.N. sanction was given, months passed, allowing Saddam to hide, move, bury or whatever, the weapons of mass destruction before our Senate and Congress voted to allow our Country to go to war there. Satellite pictures show large trucks going into Syria, which is probably where some of the weapons are stored. We may never know unless some group or government buys them to use against us or another imagined enemy.

I put in the Web search (Google): Saddam Hussein weapons of mass destruction proof

There are numerous sites there if you want to learn more about the matter. It's true, some still believe there were no weapons of mass destruction. Thousands of dead people in mass graves tell that story. I hope we never experience that here, but some of the Muslims have sworn to destroy America...so figure it out yourself. Do we fight them here in America, or somewhere else?!

Answer 11

Not only are there many other dictators, there are many other dictators who we can prove support terrorists. People seem to have forgotten where the 911 hijackers came from.