Why did we go to Iraq?

Answer 1

for the oil

Answer 2

We shouldn't have. But, it was because Iraq wasn't complying with the sanctions agreed upon for our withdrawal form the 1st Iraq War. IOW--the UN weapons inspectors wern't allowed to go where they wanted and were given the 'run around'. This made George W. and many others very suspicious, given Saddam's & and the Baath party's official track record of lying. And, as long as the country was at war in that region anyway--the the Bush administration/the rest of the US was fighting/killing mad. He made the transition to fight the Arab aversaries from that region on Iraq's turf. To those that say we are fighting the Sunni's and Shiite's NOT terriorism---What in the world makes you think that they are not also in the Al-Qaeda? Al-Qaeda is a terrorist group--Sunni & Shiite are ethnic/religious groups--they certainly can belong to both.

But---I believe we should pull out. The Sunni's & Shiite's don't like each other either--they can go to war without us. And, I'm sorry, but if the Iraqi government/military can't hold their own, then they should pull out of Bahgdad and let it go to battlefield---they can take on the beatin' winner later (shhh).

Answer 3

9/11 and Saddam who supposely had weapons of mass destruction and it continued on, then it was to free the Iraq people and now the reason we are still there is because the Iraqis can not defend them self.

What's next?

Answer 4

The tactical reasons are obvious. The Oil and Iraq’s strategic location from the stand point of military bases in order to control oil resources in the entire region.
The political motives are more complex.
Bush Junior and his cabinet for the most part objected to Bush senior leaving Sadam in power after the first Gulf war.
Sanctions started by Bush Sr. and carried on by two terms in office by Clinton had left Iraq in a terrible state in which corrupt government continued to prosper and carry out excesses against any that would oppose them, all the while at the expense of the people who perished to the tune of 1.5 million or more( mostly children) due primarily to lack of proper nutrition , lack of potable water, and lack of proper Medical attention all of which Saddam was able to blame on the West’s policy of Sanctions.
The motivation for them to carry out the evasion when they did and the way that they did was 9/11.
“Make hay while the sun shines”
Prior to 9/11 another major military invasion into Iraq was a hard sell to make to the American people.
In the words of PNAC (the Neo Conservative “ Project for the New American Century” ) an event on the order of Pearl Harbor was needed in order gain the public support required to overthrow Saddam by means of a second military invasion.
So it was not so much because they thought Iraq was responsible for 9/11 but more because 9/11 enabled them to enjoy the public support they needed to carry out the invasion.
Again it was the OIL and Military bases they were/are ultimately after, WMD and Alkaeda connections were used as tools of propaganda and 9/11 served to justify and bolster the propaganda . The Administration felt confident that upon seeing a rapid and outstanding success it would be easy enough to find a couple of Al Kaeda members in the general population and enough WMD bits and pieces scattered about to back up their rhetoric once they demonstrated to the world that a thriving and secure Iraq was setting an outstanding model of Democracy in the Mid East.

Considering what actually developed out of all this the only honorable course of action left is that of reconciliation, reconstruction, and repairing the public security . Plans of continuing on with overt demands for Private US oil exploitation, political manipulation and usury as a Military base of operations to expand the war on into Iran and Syria have been dashed by shear ineptitude, dishonesty and deceit carried out by the Administration.
IMO The most we can ask of the people of Iraq at this juncture is a reasonable guarantee that they will not engage in all the terrible untrue things we accused them of engaging in as a premise to blow their infrastructure and public security to smithereens.

Answer 5

We went to Iraq, because gullible US and England believed Israel's lie Iraq has WMD.. Israel Mosad circulated assumably a document showing Iraq buying Yellow Cake , important ingredient to make a nuclear bomb.
Israel also lobbied through their zionist Neocons around Bush and in congress to invade a sovereign country.

From top down culprits are Israel, Neocons. Bush.. then again Bush was a meager character to follow his master Cheney.

Iraq has nothing to do with OIL nor anything else.. it's Israel's wish to see to it that Iraq or any other country in the region be destabilized at all costs..

Answer 6

In my opinion, We want more oil and 911 combine and now we are 3 trillion debt and 3000 Americans dead. But, we have no statistic how many Iraq people die. My heart and soul go with their families as well as our American troop.

Answer 7

Because the Vice-President Dick Cheney, spent 5 lucrative years, before become vice president of USA, the Vice-President, as chief executive of Halliburton, the world’s largest oil-and-gas-services company. The conglomerate, which is based in Houston, is now the biggest private contractor for American forces in Iraq; it has received contracts worth some eleven billion dollars for its work there.
Cheney earned forty-four million dollars during his tenure at Halliburton. Although he has said that he “severed all my ties with the company,” he continues to collect deferred compensation worth approximately a hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, and he retains stock options worth more than eighteen million dollars. He has announced that he will donate proceeds from the stock options to charity.
Like Dow Chemical during the Vietnam War, or Enron three years ago, Halliburton has evolved into a symbol useful in rallying the opposition. On the night that John Kerry won the Iowa caucuses, he took a ritual swipe at the Administration’s “open hand” for Halliburton.
For months, Cheney and Halliburton have insisted that he had no part in the government’s decision about the Iraq contracts. Cheney has stuck by a statement he made last September on “Meet the Press”: “I have absolutely no influence of, involvement of, knowledge of in any way, shape, or form of contracts led by the Corps of Engineers or anybody else in the federal government.” He has declined to discuss Halliburton in depth, and, despite a number of recent media appearances meant to soften his public image, he turned down several requests for an interview on the subject.
The Bush Administration picked Halliburton to receive a noncompetitive contract for up to seven billion dollars to rebuild Iraq’s oil operations. According to the Times, the decision was authorized at the “highest levels of the Administration.”
Halliburton has been accused of exploiting its privileged status. In 2003, a division of the company overcharged the government by as much as sixty-one million dollars in the course of buying and transporting fuel from Kuwait into Iraq.
Halliburton charged the United States as much as $2.38 per gallon, an amount that a Pentagon audit determined to be about a dollar per gallon too high. Although Halliburton has denied any criminal wrongdoing, the inspector general for the Department of Defense is considering an investigation.
Halliburton blamed the high costs on an obscure Kuwaiti firm, Altanmia Commercial Marketing, which it subcontracted to deliver the fuel. In Kuwait, the oil business is controlled by the state, and Halliburton has claimed that government officials there pressured it into hiring Altanmia, which had no experience in fuel transport. Yet a previously undisclosed letter, dated May 4, 2003, and sent from an American contracting officer to Kuwait’s oil minister, plainly describes the decision to use Altanmia as Halliburton’s own “recommendation.” The letter also shows that the Army Corps of Engineers, the federal agency that oversees such transactions, supported Halliburton’s decision to use the expensive subcontractor—which may explain why it has been reluctant to criticize the deal.
In resume, oil, corruption.

Answer 8

The original reasons given were that Saddam Hussein's government was linked to Al-Quida and that Iraq was building weapons of mass destruction.

Both of these reasons turned out to be untrue.

Answer 9

Cause of 9/11 and the fact bush is completly ignorant.

Answer 10

The biggest mistake, probably in History. All the troops are going to leave eventually. So what's gonna be left behind. I hope it haunts Tony Blair until the day he dies.

Answer 11

A. For the oil
B. so Bushy could avenge Daddy
C. Someone told Georgie that Saddam had a bigger penis than he did