How should ownership of the Iraq war be spread between Bushs, Clintons, Gores, Naders, Kennedys, Pelosis etc.?

Question

All of these people contributed to the war in Iraq by getting their children, spouses involved in politics and waging war or voting for war with Iraq.

Answer 1

None of the above. I blame Jimmy Carter for not taking care of Iran. If he had put down the terrorists when they took our citizens, there would have been no need to deal with saddam, Afghanistan would have been much different historically which would have meant probably binladen would have been a nobody, No Iran Iraq war, and the entire middle east would be a completely different place. Ahmaweeniejob would probably have been vaporized in the successful battle to take back Iran from the Ayatollah Khomeini, who would also have been turned into wormfood much sooner. The PLO would not have been propped up by all these clowns, no islamic revolution in somalia, no taliban, and many many more pages of history would be much different.

Answer 2

Most people who answer this question will say Bush is the terrible man who started the war. They are morons. If you go back a few years, and listen to a few of the tapes from congress when Bill was still president, you will learn a great deal about how the war was already escalating. Like I said, though, most of the people nowadays in the U.S. are media idiots. They only know what the liberal press shoves down their throats. I recently listened to Nancy Pelosis give a speech from 1998 where she all but says she herself wanted to go in and invade Iraq to save America. Now she gives speeches about how Bush has ruined everything by starting a war. Realize that politicians lie, but if you are too stupid to understand that, just write DOWN WITH BUSH, BECAUSE THE TV TOLD ME SO!!!!

Answer 3

Albert Gore did not get us into this mess. Neither did Ralph Nader, nor Teddy Kennedy. Granted, Clinton voted in favor of it, and Pelosi has a double edged tongue. The truth of the matter is, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney got us into the mess, and they have done it because of their greed for oil money.

Senator Biden has the only good idea...divide it up in three sections amongst the Sunni, the Shiites, and the Kurds, and get out.

Answer 4

What a bizarre accusation.

A little history first. Back in the late 1950's, the CIA recruited Saddam Hussein to assassinate the then-leader of Iraq, fearing he was getting too cozy with the Soviets. By the late 1960's, Saddam was in power - which he consolidated in the late 1970's. Throughout the 1980's, Saddam was an ally of the U.S., as we leaned on him to kill as many Iranians as possible. Bear in mind the reason Iran became our enemy at this time was because a brand new Islamist movement had sprung up to oppose another CIA-installed dictator, the Shah of Iran.

Saddam had issues with Kuwait slant-drilling into Iraqi oil reserves. He figured that we wouldn't mind too much, tested the proposal with U.S. ambassador April Glaspie who reassured him we had no interest in his Kuwaiti border dispute, and Saddam rolled into Kuwait expecting the same reaction he got when he rolled into Iran. He was wrong. Bush Sr. double-crossed him, and formed an international coalition to kick him out of Kuwait and take him down a few notches.

In 1997, a few neoconservatives (notably Richard Perle and Doug Feith, plus others who formed the Project for the New American Century) got it into their heads that we should inject U.S. military power into the middle east again via Iraq - principally to shore up Israel's security. They applied the screws on Bill Clinton big-time starting in early 1998 (not coincedentally, 2 weeks after the Lewinsky story broke), and by the end of 1998 had coerced Clinton into a limited series of attacks against Iraq. A couple months later, the Republican-controlled Congress acquitted Clinton of impeachment charges.

The 1998 airstrikes were instrumental to preparing the stage for war - as during the tension leading up to these events the U.N. inspectors were forced out of the country.

Bush Jr. came in with these same PNAC folks inside his administration, populating senior positions within defense and state (e.g. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bolton, Khalilzad). They immediately seized on the opportunity of 9/11 to call for action against Iraq - even though there was absolutely no credible evidence (as confirmed by the 9/11 commission) of any connection between Saddam and 9/11.

That's it in a nutshell. U.S./CIA interventionism, Bush double-crossing, and neoconservative power games driven by Zionists. Not a Democrat in sight.

Answer 5

Now hold on there a minute shorty...You can't go spreadin aroun any ownership jam for this war ifn' you don spread some o that jam on my bread raht heah.

Please, I'm sorry but your question sent me into a dizzying spin of illiteracy and numbness of mind I haven't felt since I converted from the democratic party to the freedom and happiness of indipendent thought! Yes sir, there is nothing like the free and FREQUENT exercise of objective reason and logic to get your spirit revived and your mind ready for the onslaught of the mountain of absolute idiocy that spouts from the mouth of socialist appeasers bent of sacrificing principle to the aggression of Islamic Fascism.

Aren't you glad that you and I are "free at last" thank god you and I are free at last from the lies and completely illogical propaganda spouting from socialist these days?

You are free of it aren't you? Hello? Anyone there.........

Answer 6

Good topic. You are correct. All are involved but Dubya gets the heat. He's not done a good job, but he shold be able to deflect some of the heat to the others. Some of the other jokers that responded prior to me (those who insist Dubya is the only one to blame) really make me laugh. They haven't been paying attention to the big picture over the past 15 years or so.

Answer 7

Harry Truman had a sign on his desk in the oval office that read "The Buck Stops Here". The Bush version should read "The Buck Stops Anywhere But Here".

Bush is responsible. He ultimately made the decision to invade Iraq. Clinton was not in office. Congress did not mandate that we go to Iraq.

Answer 8

I feel Bushes responsible,mainly because I support him ,and we have won the war in Iraq.Saddam have been eliminated, and the freely elected government is fighting with us to protect this newly formed government from outside forces.We must win and Bush is the only one saying so.And the only one with a plan for success.
AS far as going to war it was all of them that were responsible

Answer 9

How bout Americans take ownership. You've voted in the Presidents and leaders who made the decision to go to war...so take some responsibility.

Answer 10

Are you sure about this. I thought all of the innocent civilians over there started the war. Now I am confused.