Should Bush be held responsilbe for the Troops that have died?

Question

The United Nations charter has a provision which was agreed to by the United States formulated by the United States in fact, after World War II. It says that from now on, no nation can use armed force without the permission of the U.N. Security Council. They can use force in connection with self-defense, but a country can't use force in anticipation of self-defense. Regarding Iraq, the last Security Council resolution essentially said, “Look, send the weapons inspectors out to Iraq, have them come back and tell us what they've found -- then we'll figure it out from there.” The U.S. was impatient, and decided to invade Iraq -- which was all pre-arranged of course. So, the United States went to war, in violation of the charter. Making the war in Iraq an “illegal” war.

Answer 1

All these fuss is because american forces are getting killed and they are at the verge of getting defeated.

American common public had no objection when Bush was attacking Iraq. Common american also are responsible for supporting the attack on Iraq. Why only bush??

Answer 2

I am sure Bush goes to sleep each night with the anguish of knowing how many troops have died on any given day. I don't support this war in Iraq. I do support the war in Afghanistan. But, I can imagine Bush's conscience is heavy because of the way the situation in Iraq is going and probably will continue to go. You are very much wrong when you say a nation must get authority from the UN in times of a war. As of now, there are 41 major conflicts in the world, more than ever before in history. By contrast, in the turbulent 1960's, there were only 6 wars. As for American participation in Iraq and Afghanistan, the US Congress voted overwhelmingly to give Bush the authority to use the military "as a last resort". The UN holds no charge over the US. Again, I don't support this war and haven't from the first day because I believed that Saddam was a buffer against Iran. The UN is nothing but a powerless, partisan, anti-US assembly of misfits. We will solve our own problems without their help. Thank you very much.

Answer 3

Any leader of any country is directly responsible for sending troops to war and is therefore responsible for their deaths whether or not the war was for the right reasons or not.
What makes this different is the fact that Bush went to war on false intelligence. There was no intelligence to say that Iraq had WMDs and was a threat to the world. The other argument is that they were supporting Al Quaeda and the 9/11 attackers. It is and was well known that the attackers were majority Saudi and the organisation still has strong links in Saudi Arabia so why Iraq? Answer - The Bushs have strong business ties with the Saudis who also have a lot of money invested in the US so Bush needed a sideline to divert attention away from them.
So whether or not the US was required to gain permission from the UN doesn't matter, this is an illegal war waged on a sovereign nation who were no threat to US security.

Answer 4

Not one single country has honored any part of the UN's mandates ever. Also if you look closely, that charter allows a country to use force if it feels it is threatened. So the loopholes are huge. The UN is a totally corrupt organization that passed 16 different resolutions to use force of arms in Iraq, then never had the guts to follow thru. Which is why no one country pays attention to the UN. If your honest and look the reason they did not want the US to go to war was that France, Germany and Russia all had oil contracts with Saddam and were paying him money under the table, breaking the UN sanction of oil sale for food and medicine only. They were making billions illegally, while giving Saddam money to build his army again. How long should the world sit by and watch while people like Saddam murder thousands and thousands of people a year? If you knew any Iraqi Shittes ( I do) or talk to any Kurds, or people from Kuwait, they will tell you that they are glad we took Saddam out.Stop listening to fools like Rosie and Hollywood, and research the mandate of the Islamic Militants. When we leave the Middle East, they will start back here again. That is their words, use your computer and watch AL Jazerra TV. They brag about it, and the fact that American people are cowards that cannot take sacrifice and pain. I am afraid they are correct anymore. Thank God that America was not like this in WWII.

Answer 5

IF YOU THINK ITS BAD NOW , YOU AINT SEEN NUTHIN YET. We are witnessing the beginning of the end of Industrial Civilization as we now know it. The world is quickly running out of OIL. USA is grabbing all it can get. India , Russia and China are now forming an alliance to help them get theirs. USA cant let them have it or they will starve. India and China are desperate for oil. Iraq is gonna turn into a massive resource war and this is a matter of life or death for USA. If the media were to tell the people in USA the truth about this , it would cause a massive panic. Therefore it is called "The Greatest Story Never Told". We got maybe 10 years left , no more . Have fun

Answer 6

The people who become soldiers enter a role that they themselves know can lead to a situation that is unforgiving but its the soldiers own will that allows them to become a soldier and responsible for there actions in how they conduct themselves toward the enermy and results in an action that judges them on conduct.The Brass has to really on common sense of it soldiers and its the soldier that holds the reputation of the country.The brass can not hold the soldiers hand and the commander of the squad cannot hold the hand of the soldier either as its the soldiers commonsense unless ordered by command.Weed out rotten command and you'll have a mountain that cannot be moved.Negitive propaganda towards the soldier destroys the soldier as well.

Answer 7

Which also means that the Vietnam War was "illegal", and so was the Korean War. Were Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, and Johnson held responsible for all the soldiers' deaths (close to a hundred thousand altogether; over 33,000 in Korea, and over 58,000 in Vietnam.) in those wars? No? Well, then there's your answer.
And actually, the UN said that Hussein probably DID have WMD (which is why they passed so many resolutions against him), but they didn't want to go to war just yet. And WHY didn't they want to go to war? Because they were in Hussein's POCKET. Look up the "Food for Oil" scandal.

Answer 8

Should every president who decided to go to war be held responsible for the troops that died during that war? Why don't we dig them all up and give them a stern talking to for trying to defend our country?

And as far as "Illegal" wars go, the United States is a sovereign country. Always has, always will be. If certain people in the UN are too weak to act, or being paid not to act, that doesn't change what the proper course of action is. Saddam murdered his own people. We're just as much in the right for going to war with him as we were for going after Hitler in WW2.

I'd also like to point out that many people were against getting involved in WW2, but no one today thinks what our country and our allies did was wrong. They stopped a insane tyrant from murdering his own people and spreading his insanity across the globe. Sounds familiar doesn't it?

Answer 9

I hold the terroists responsible for the deaths of my fellow soldiers/marines and other service members in Iraq, not the president.

I hold the traitors in the left wing and their alliances with and assistance to the terroists responsible for the deaths of American and Coalition forces and the deaths of innocent Iraqis at the hands of the terrorists.

I hold the left wing in contempt for their idiocy and aiding the enemy. I hold the people who believe the idiocy of this question in even higher contempt for their moronic views.

If you have a problem with this, come see me in Iraq. I'm just south of the Al Mansoor hotel.

Answer 10

He started the war. So he is responsible to a certain degree. However, those troops chose to go there.

If they really didn't want to go, they could have refused and been court-martialed, but they still could have.

And then of course there is the person who actually killed them.

So I'll say it's 25% Bush, 25% the troop, and 25% whoever killed them, and 25% the American people for voting Bush into office 2 freakin' times.

Answer 11

Guess you believe propaganda more than true facts. The WMD's started with Clinton. Passed on to Bush. Bush has done nothing wrong, and the Iraq was is a legal war, proof far back as Clinton. Terrorist attacked us.