2007-03-01 22:10:02 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
Any Excuse at all, He rushed out sketchy information after 911 not before. Therefore he must of thought that the Iraq war would be a push over and make him look good, like his dear old Dad.
2007-03-01 22:18:02 · answer #1 · answered by moozootookoo 1 · 1⤊ 5⤋
When China's jet pilot knocked our plane out of the sky for protecting Taiwan, Bush was seen as a pacifist because he didn't set up a trade embargo.
Then came September 11, 2001. Remember?
Everyone I spoke to that day and in the weeks that followed, and I mean democrat and republican, liberal and conservative believed Iraq HAD to be involved. Why? Because 'Dubya' is the son of the man who led the entire world against Hussein in 1990.
In the ~18 months following the attack, people wondered if Bush was 'soft' on terrorism for NOT getting rid of Saddam. How soon we forget.
BUT! Having said all that, I must say...
The New Cold War is all about global stability of petroleum distribution. With ONE successful "Non-Petroleum" alternative fuel, all the countries we're scuffling with would become sweet little lambs (or at least quiet, invisible little tazmanian devils).
For the 600 Billion Dollars we've spent over there (and that doesn't count the approximately $3 per gallon of gas we've been spending to protect mid-east petroleum since the seventies) we could have drilled enough geo-thermal wells to eliminate U.S. demand for foreign oil. Period. End of (a prison) sentence!
qwerty
2007-03-02 07:11:26 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, Saddam did afterall laugh in the face of his visible tormentors, at their misfortune of 9/11/01.
Our Congress, Senate and previous two Presidents had no way of knowing that the UN could have called for a more diverse force to enforce UN sanctions, against Iraq, since 1991.
There is something I like to call the Hydra Effect. Named after the three headed Greek mythological beast. Where a mythological champion cuts off a head of the Hydra and two heads grow back from the wound. So now I ask, how many heads with sharp and dangerous teeth do we have to contend with? Ol' champion George will step off that field soon enough. How many scars and wounds will we have suffered? Will we have the stamina to keep up the fight as these increasing number of heads surround us?
I hope somebody thought this out reasonably back in 1991 when we hauled up short. Otherwise we most certainly would have had this Hydra Effect in Iraq then.
Me personally I don't like popular opinion. Because popular opinion is exactly like keeping up with the Jones'. I prefer to not keep up with anyone. And I am not named Jones! Another way to look at it is, lemmings keep up with foxes? No, lemmings are a preferable crowd! Call me the odd lemming that prefers to keep an eye on the foxes. Otherwise I could become food.
2007-03-02 06:50:25 · answer #3 · answered by eks_spurt 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
He didn't need an excuse, he had every reason to. Saddam agreed back in 91 to unfettered access to ANY and ALL sites to weapons inspectors. Clinton turned a blind eye to the fact that Saddam never kept his deal. The international community did the same for far too long. We came here to neutralize a threat, we did, and now we should be going home. I am in Baghdad, and daily go outside the wire on patrols that the Iraqi forces should be doing, but due to our handholding them every step of the way, we will never let them do what is their responsiblity. We don;t need more troops here, we need to let the Iraqi's sink or swim, we cannot keep them afloat forever.
2007-03-02 06:24:39 · answer #4 · answered by vammeejdeploy 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
i don't think so, and if he really had a good reason, a lot of people are going to say its and excuse. there are excuses and opinion for the same issue. at the end it is, do you like it or not; then criticizes. that happens with everything, football players, Fidel Castro, even me
2007-03-02 06:17:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yea he really had to dig deep didn't he? Lucky for him he found some dictator who was killing his own people and not complying with UN inspectors. Yea he was just looking for a reason, give me a break.
2007-03-02 10:12:29 · answer #6 · answered by Curt 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
OK, I am a moderate / conservative. But yeah, honestly I think that he was. I don't know how much that weighed in what happened. No one outside of the inner circle does know definitively. Oh, there is plenty of CONJECTURE, but it is not FACT. My response is my opinion, and I don't present it as fact.
2007-03-02 06:19:27 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
and you are a pawn of a Military action gone wrong. You are not coming home anytime soon, and you will go back if you stay in.
That is a reality. If you support what the President did, prepare yourself because he acted without "good right" or with an clear plan on why he sent you and all our other Military members there.
He is and idiot for sure.
Desert Storm Vet
2007-03-02 06:29:41 · answer #8 · answered by SgtW 2 · 2⤊ 5⤋
Yes, he needed to stop Saddam selling his oil in Euros and he needed to install a puppet government in a powerful OPEC member state that would prevent OPEC from switching the oil trade completely away from the dollar to Euros.
2007-03-02 06:14:33 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 5⤋
Is the Pope Catholic?
2007-03-02 06:22:26 · answer #10 · answered by homer28b 5 · 0⤊ 4⤋