Why is there war in Iraq in the first place??!!?

Question

Bush wants more soldiers, and that means more people are gonna die. Why is this happening?

Answer 1

First off, Iraqi conflict was not a war. It was only invasion of another country to exploit its natural resources.
Our troops are still in Iraq because Bush is too arrogant to admit that he was wrong about Iraq. His administration knows the truth, but it is not patriotic to oppose him when he is in trouble. His incompetence and lies coasted us big time and we all suffering from his mistakes. How can Bush get Iraq and Iran's oil, control Saudis oil too, protect Israel, show off his power to Europeans and monitor the European Union and control the Islamic Fundamentalists in the Middle East? Well, he must stay in Iraq for many years to come

Answer 2

Saddam and the Bathist party were Sunni, the Sunni’s are a minority in Iraq.
Naturally an election produced a Shiite executive.
The Shiites have little sympathy for the Sunni ergo the US finds itself in Iraq trying to prevent the Shiites from taking revenge against the Sunni and at the same time trying to prevent the Sunni from trying to prevent the Shiite from taking revenge against the Sunni.
Add to the mix Al Kaeda that migrated into Iraq after the US invasion who are intent on fanning the flames.
There have been reports of mortar attacks in which rounds are launched into both Shiite and Sunni neighborhoods from the same launch site.
This would be more indicative of ALKaeda objectives of keeping the US bogged down in a civil war in Iraq.
You see, we are at war with terrorists not Iraq. Iraq was a long awaited pet project of the Neo Conservatives . They used 9/11 as an excuse to prosecute that plan.
In the end it turned into a giant brain fart and IMHO at this juncture the Administration just wants to keep up some appearance of a “Plan for Iraq” until the Democrat’s take the White House in 08 and the smell of Neo Con past gas appears to emanate from the Democrats pants when we finally leave in total disgrace.
Iraq did not attack us, the terrorists that attacked us were Saudis, and they were funded by wealthy Saudis through means of conspiracy and espionage and they continue to be so funded.
Bushes invasion into Iraq was a gift from Allah for the proponents of starting a Global militant Jihadist terrorist movement.
We cannot win or loose the War in Iraq because we are not in a War with Iraq, we are rather stuck in Iraq trying to police a Civil war that we started all of which had absolutely nothing to do with terrorist organization(s) that attacked us on 9/11.

Amazing isn’t it?

Answer 3

To repute what the last poster had said about the Civil War, from the historical books that I had read, General Fuller, a distinguished British officer, was here on his own leave to assess the situation of the war and the southern government consistently courted the British to join their side to lift the north's naval blockade that they had on southern ports. Though the British did decide to stay out of the conflict. I am in the military and I am getting ready to head out on my FIFTH tour to Iraq most likely this fall, yet I was told by the left wing liberal democrats that we would be out of Iraq, glad to that is happening. Let me let you all in on a little secret, when a military general stands in front of me and tells us all that a private would retire before we will leave Iraq, I tend to believe that general before I will ever believe a politician out to get elected or be reelected. Folks, stop your crying, we are not leaving Iraq any time soon. If a liberal democrat is elected, we will soon here how everything in Iraq is roses. Amazing how the media refuses to tell us all the good things that the military is doing and continues to focus on the negative to bring us down. Amazing how the media does not tell us what Rep Murtha really wants to cut from the military. Tanks, Bradleys, Strikers and other vehicles, weird how they say that they will make sure we are provided with the equipment needed, but will cut funding for the VERY THINGS I DO NEED!!!!!!! When will the media report that, ah that will never happen because they know the American peoples chin would drop when they heard that one.

Answer 4

pretty much the same reason as was in vietnam - civil unrest. long ago and not far (enough) away, iraq was dominated by a man whose family & self caused oppression. after his disposal, the country, not having fended for itself in over 60 years, was left without direction. religious factions, unsettled for over 1500 years, took over & once more dominated the area. keep in mind this area has always been trouble. the romans couldn't control it. the turks had their hands full, unsuccessful & the crusades were fought (and lost) all within this region. stretching up & into the early 1900s, ww1 & ww2 all were bogged down with camel poop & sand. what you have in iraq is a very unstable area in the throes of a civil war. we never should've gotten involved in vietnam & we should pull out of iraq. i mean, come on. you have a fight with your family. it's bad enough your family is fighting amongst themselves and now you have an outsider taking sides (or appearing to). i mean, what a brass set. during the american civil war, both france & england tried to muscle into our business & both were told to butt out. anyway, this is the reasons in a nut shell and as simply put as possible. it's slightly more complicated but the shortest point between two dots is still a straight line, right?

Answer 5

I believe It was a noble idea to get rid of an evil dictator and try to help bring stability to the mideast where the worlds oil comes from. If the supply of oil is inturrupted, it will cripple most major countries economies. (Forget your nice house, jobs, ipod's, etc., etc. - also get used to being cold in the winter and hot in the summer.) The US will fair better than many countries because we have coal and some oil. Probably enough to get by, but life as we know it will end. Many countries like most of Europe, Japan, etc., will be in terrible shape because they don't have oil, and most can't even feed themselves without producing their exports to purchase food. (Maybe you don't realize it, but about 80% of the worlds countries can't produce enough food for themselves) For example, Japan must import about 60% I believe.

The problem is we didn't realize there were a bunch of radical musllims which do not want a stable democracy in the mideast, and are willing to kill their own women and children to prevent it from happening. We also didn't realize many of the other muslims are either spineless, or think killing those of other tribes is more important than peace, and are not willing to fight for it. Basically, our mistake was in thinking that other societies would be happy to fight and die for freedom like we do and have done for hundreds of years. Remember, there would be no U.S.A without many sacrificing there lives for it. We just foolishly think everyone thinks that way. Same mistake we made in Vietnam.

WW1 and WW2 were different. We helped people who were willing to die for their freedom as we were.

Answer 6

Because Saddam was killing millions of innocent people for no reason.

Answer 7

BECAUSE OF STUPIDITY OF ONE COUNTRY, GUESS WHO ?

Answer 8

wow your out of the loop... god where were you, in a hole?