Why does Bush want to continue his global war on terror in Iraq? Hasnt he and his buddies made enough money???

Question

400 Billion tax payer dollars is not enough? He wants MORE MONEY? Just accept that you screwed the tax payer..you got rich..now let's end this b.s., cut the money burn and bring our troops home.

Answer 1

Because doing anything else would prove 70% of the US right--that the Iraq invasion was a BAD MOVE.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, he doesn't feel as though he has a choice. It's not in his DNA. He's one of those people that gets locked into a decision, a course of action, and can't change direction. It's sad for all of us. The best leaders take in new information and are able to adjust. And beyond the money spent (I'm not sure about the money being made), this has cost thousand of lives - US and Iraqi. The epicenter of this war on terror is not in Iraq. At least it wasn't until we inflammed the country. We need to finish the job in Afganistan. They need resources and support.

Answer 3

each war is fought for some aims set in the previous hand. The war in Iraq grew to become into additionally began with 2 aims and those have been (a million) removing of weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) and (2) removing of Saddam government via fact of its help for terrorists. the 1st purpose could no longer be carried out via fact there have been NO WMDs what so ever and 2nd purpose grew to become into no longer large adequate to truthfully salary a war. US could eliminate Saddam with different potential like a coup, inner flow via Iraqis etc (as US has completed it in different countries interior the previous), so that's risk-free to declare that the truthfully purpose grew to become into to have actual administration over the oil wells and that has been carried out. war against Terror is a advertisement slogan thats why neither UN nor majority of the countries participated/ supported the war. the only countries that actively participated have been people who had direct difficulty with the oil. The harmless civilians and US squaddies being killed in Iraq is infact an act of terrorism and would desire to offer up. In each and all of the fairness each and all of the distant places forces would desire to be sent back from iraq and Iraqis could be permit loose to ascertain upon formation of their government and how they p.c. to stay. No united states of america has any amazing to intervene in yet another united states of america's inner affairs as each and all of the countries interior the international are equivalent and function the ultimate to stay freely and independently.

Answer 4

Under Clinton, he asked for more money in:
Bosnia,
Somalia,
Haiti,
Not to mention the numerous times he threw Tomahawks into Iraq, bombed a Chinese Embassy in Bosnia, and invaded Haiti.

Libs forget those don't they?

Answer 5

I guess an idiot like you would rather have global terror in the good ole USA. People like you are going to make Iraq another Viet Nam. You can send an idiot to school but you can't make him learn. I thank the Lord that Bush has BALLS.

Answer 6

OIL OIL OIL!!! You think oil is worth a mere 400 Billion dollars?

Answer 7

Maybe you should be complaining more about the low quality of education in America. Your grammar is terrible.

Answer 8

Simply bcuz he's an asshole. I dont understand any of his decisions.

Answer 9

Spoken like a true liberal.

Answer 10

If he had the motive to be rich, he would have become an athlete or a doctor or something. Believe it or not liberal, this war isn't very popular (or so the media says), and I wouldn't guess that he would be getting payed a lot of money to do it. So why don't you quit bs'in urself and actually look into what his purposes are...here read this and tell me that the war is pointless and that we should have never been in it, even after 9/11 (well of course nothing will ever happen again, it was just an accident):
Both standing next to you:

Here's something to ponder - Lengthy, but worth the read regardless of your disgust with the current world situation......

SOME OF YOU ARE NOT OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER THAT NEARLY EVERY FAMILY IN AMERICA WAS GROSSLY AFFECTED BY WW II . MOST OF YOU DON'T REMEMBER THE RATIONING OF MEAT, SHOES, GASOLINE, AND SUGAR . NO TIRES FOR OUR AUTOMOBILES, AND A SPEED LIMIT OF 35 MILES AN HOUR ON THE ROAD . NOT TO MENTION, NO NEW AUTOMOBILES . READ THIS AND THINK ABOUT HOW WE WOULD REACT TO BEING TAKEN OVER BY FOREIGNERS IN 2007

This is an EXCELLENT essay . Well thought out and presented

Historical Significance

Sixty-three years ago, Nazi Germany had overrun almost all of Europe and hammered England to the verge of bankruptcy and defeat . The Nazis had sunk more than 400 British ships in their convoys between England and America taking food and war materials .

At that time the US was in an isolationist, pacifist mood, and most Americans wanted nothing to do with the European or the Asian war .

Then along came Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 , and in outrage Congress unanimously declared war on Japan , and the following day on Germany , who had not yet attacked us . It was a dicey thing . We had few allies .

France was not an ally, as the Vichy government of France quickly aligned itself with its German occupiers . Germany was certainly not an ally, as Hitler was intent on setting up a Thousand Year Reich in Europe . Japan was not an ally, as it was well on its way to owning and controlling all of Asia

Together, Japan and Germany had long-range plans of invading Canada and Mexico , as launching pads to get into the United States over our northern and southern borders, after they finished gaining control of Asia and Europe

America 's only allies then were England , Ireland , Scotland , Canada , Australia , and Russia . That was about it All of Europe, from Norway to Italy (except Russia in the East) was already under the Nazi heel .

The US was certainly not prepared for war . The US had drastically downgraded most of its military forces after WW I because of the depression, so that at the outbreak of WW II, Army units were training with broomsticks because they didn't have guns, and cars with "tank" painted on the doors because they didn't have real tanks . A huge chunk of our Navy had just been sunk or damaged at Pearl Harbor .

Britain had already gone bankrupt, saved only by the donation of $600 million in gold bullion in the Bank of England (that was actually the property of Belgium ) given by Belgium to England to carry on the war when Belgium was overrun by Hitler (a little known fact)

Actually, Belgium surrendered on one day, because it was unable to oppose the German invasion, and the Germans bombed Brussels into rubble the next day just to prove they could .

Britain had already been holding out for two years in the face of staggering losses and the near decimation of its Royal Air Force in the Battle of Britain, and was saved from being overrun by Germany only because Hitler made the mistake of thinking the Brits were a relatively minor threat that could be dealt with later . Hitler, first turned his attention to Russia , in the late summer of 1940 at a time when England was on the verge of collapse .

Ironically, Russia saved America 's butt by putting up a desperate fight for two years, until the US got geared up to begin hammering away at Germany .

Russia lost something like 24,000,000 people in the sieges of Stalingrad and Moscow alone . . . 90% of them from cold and starvation, mostly civilians, but also more than a 1,000,000 soldiers

Had Russia surrendered, Hitler would have been able to focus his entire war effort against the Brits, then America If that had happened, the Nazis could possibly have won the war .

All of this has been brought out to illustrate that turning points in history are often dicey things . Now, we find ourselves at another one of those key moments in history .

There is a very dangerous minority in Islam that either has, or wants, and may soon have, the ability to deliver small nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons, almost anywhere in the world .

The Jihadis, the militant Muslims, are basically Nazis in Kaffiyahs -- they believe that Islam, a radically conservative form of Wahhabi Islam, should own and control the Middle East first, then Europe, then the world To them, all who do not bow to their will of thinking should be killed, enslaved, or subjugated . They want to finish the Holocaust, destroy Israel , and purge the world of Jews . This is their mantra . (goal)

There is also a civil war raging in the Middle East -- for the most part not a hot war, but a war of ideas . Islam is having its Inquisition and its Reformation, but it is not yet known which side will win -- the Inquisitors, or the Reformationists

If the Inquisition wins, then the Wahhabis, the Jihadis, will control the Middle East, the OPEC oil, and the US , European, and Asian economies

The techno-industrial economies will be at the mercy of OPEC -- not an OPEC dominated by the educated, rational Saudis of today, but an OPEC dominated by the Jihadis . Do you want gas in your car? Do you want heating oil next winter? Do you want the dollar to be worth anything? You had better hope the Jihad, the Muslim Inquisition, loses, and the Islamic Reformation wins

If the Reformation movement wins, that is, the moderate Muslims who believe that Islam can respect and tolerate other religions, live in peace with the rest of the world, and move out of the 10th century into the 21st, then the troubles in the Middle East will eventually fade away . A moderate and prosperous Middle East will emerge

We have to help the Reformation win, and to do that we have to fight the Inquisition, i . e . , the Wahhabi movement, the Jihad, Al Qaeda and the Islamic terrorist movements . We have to do it somewhere . We can't do it everywhere at once . We have created a focal point for the battle at a time and place of our choosing . . . . . . . . in Iraq . Not in New York , not in London , or Paris or Berlin , but in Iraq , where we are doing two important things

(1) We deposed Saddam Hussein . Whether Saddam Hussein was directly involved in the 9/11 terrorist attack or not, it is undisputed that Saddam has been actively supporting the terrorist movement for decades Saddam is a terrorist! Saddam is, or was, a weapon of mass destruction, responsible for the deaths of probably more than a 1,000,000 Iraqis and 2,000,000 Iranians .

(2) We created a battle, a confrontation, a flash point, with Islamic terrorism in Iraq We have focused the battle We are killing bad people, and the ones we get there we won't have to get here We also have a good shot at creating a democratic, peaceful Iraq , which will be a catalyst for democratic change in the rest of the Middle East, and an outpost for a stabilizing American military presence in the Middle East for as long as it is needed .

WW II, the war with the Japanese and German Nazis, really began with a "whimper" in 1928 . It did not begin with Pearl Harbor . It began with the Japanese invasion of China . It was a war for fourteen years before the US joined it . It officially ended in 1945 -- a 17 year war -- and was followed by another decade of US occupation in Germany and Japan to get those countries reconstructed and running on their own a gain . . . a 27 year war .

WW II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a full year's GDP -- adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion dollars . WW II cost America more than 400,000 soldiers killed in action, and nearly 100,000 still missing in action .

The Iraq war has, so far, cost the United States about $160,000,000,000, which is roughly what the 9/11 terrorist attack cost New York It has also cost about 2,200 American lives, which is roughly 2/3 of the 3,000 lives that the Jihad killed (within the United States) in the 9/11 terrorist attack .

The cost of not fighting and winning WW II would have been unimaginably greater -- a world dominated by Japanese Imperialism and German Nazism .

This is not a 60-Minutes TV show, or a 2-hour movie in which everything comes out okay . The real world is not like that . It is messy, uncertain, and sometimes bloody and ugly It always has been, and probably always will be .

The bottom line is that we will have to deal with Islamic terrorism until we defeat it, whenever that is It will not go away if we ignore it .

If the US can create a reasonably democratic and stable Iraq , then we have an ally, like England , in the Middle East, a platform, from which we can work to help modernize and moderate the Middle East . The history of the world is the clash between the forces of relative civility and civilization, and the barbarians clamoring at the gates to conquer the world

The Iraq War is merely another battle in this ancient and never ending war Now, for the first time ever, the barbarians are about to get nuclear weapons . Unless some body prevents them from getting them

We have four options:

1 . We can defeat the Jihad now, before it gets nuclear weapons .

2 . We can fight the Jihad later, after it gets nuclear weapons (which may be as early as next year, if Iran 's progress on nuclear weapons is what Iran claims it is)

3 . We can surrender to the Jihad and accept its dominance in the Middle East now; in Europe in the next few years or decades, and ultimately in America

OR

4 . We can stand down now, and pick up the fight later when the Jihad is more widespread and better armed, perhaps after the Jihad has dominated France and Germany and possibly most of the rest of Europe . It will, of course, be more dangerous, more expensive, and much bloodier .

If you oppose this war, I hope you like the idea that your children, or grandchildren, may live in an Islamic America under the Mullahs and the Sharia, an America that resembles Iran today

The history of the world is the history of civilization clashes, cultural clashes . All wars are about ideas, ideas about what society and civilization should be like, and the most determined always win

Those who are willing to be the most ruthless always win . The pacifists always lose, because the anti-pacifists kill them .

Remember, perspective is every thing, and America 's schools teach too little history for perspective to be clear, especially in the young American mind .

The Cold War lasted from about 1947 at least until the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 . Forty-two years

Europe spent the first half of the 19th century fighting Napoleon, and from 1870 to 1945 fighting Germany !

World War II began in 1928, lasted 17 years, plus a ten year occupation, and the US still has troops in Germany and Japan . World War II resulted in the death of more than 50,000,000 people, maybe more than 100,000,000 people, depending on which estimates you accept

The US has taken more than 2,000 killed in action in Iraq The US took more than 4,000 killed in action on the morning of June 6, 1944 , the first day of the Normandy Invasion to rid Europe of Nazi Imperialism .

In WW II the US averaged 2,000 KIA a week -- for four years . Most of the individual battles of WW II lost more Americans than the entire Iraq war has done so far

The stakes are at least as high . . . A world dominated by representative governments with civil rights, human rights, and personal freedoms . . or a world dominated by a radical Islamic Wahhabi movement, by the Jihad, under the Mullahs and the Sharia (Islamic law) .

It's difficult to understand why the average American does not grasp this They favor human rights, civil rights, liberty and freedom, but evidently not for Iraqis

"Peace Activists" always seem to demonstrate here in America , where it's safe

Why don't we see Peace Activist demonstrating in Iran , Syria , Iraq , Sudan , North Korea , in the places that really need peace activism the most? I'll tell you! They would be killed!

The liberal mentality is supposed to favor human rights, civil rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc . , but if the Jihad wins, wherever the Jihad wins, it is the end of civil rights, human rights, democracy, multiculturalism, diversity, etc

Americans who oppose the liberation of Iraq are coming down on the side of their own worst enemy

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Raymond S . Kraft is a writer living in Northern California that has studied the Middle Eastern culture and religion

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