how did the war start?

Answer 1

What war are you referring too?

Answer 2

I'm more curious how the war started between DHARMA and the 'hostiles'. That will be far more interesting than the current conflict going on in the middle east. Stay tuned to LOST hopefully for an answer.

As for the current situation, yes the WMDs idea does seem a bit fabricated, but let's think about something... We dug up something like 20-30 jets, some were newer Russian made MIGs. So if Saddam and his gang took the time to bury 30 jets and planes in the desert, imagine what else is burried, still waiting to be discovered.

We know they had nerve gas, hell, we even sold them a lot of that stuff when they were fighting Iran. All we had to do is pull out a reciept book and be like YO! Where's this and this at?

And what? We were supposed to take his word for it? Come the hell on... this is a regime that tortured their national soccer team for losing a match. Seriously!!! WTF? Imagine the world outrage if the US tortured our olypmic team for not winning a gold medal?

Not to mention the middle east is just a hot bed of hostility. Sure a lot of them hate the western world, but they hate each other as well. It's easy to say Muslims hate the Jews and Christians, but when you break Islam down to various sects, those sects hate each other just as much as they do the Christians and Jews. You have generations of people who are born and bred on hate, have no education other than what their eman preaches to them and that word is just as important as the word of god. They are living basically a 1000 years behind the rest of the world in terms of civilization, education, social values etc...

So until they catch up with the western world, there is going to be conflicts.

The sad truth of the matter is the world would be a lot better off without religion.

Answer 3

Which one???

If you mean the current Iraq war...here it is...

There are a multitude of reasons. First, following the attack on the US in 2001, is the over riding concern to eliminate the terrorist training grounds in that region of the world. The first ones to be eliminated were in Afghanistan. Once the Taliban in Afghanistan were no longer a threat.i.e. actively culvating and training al Qaeda terrorists, the next most threatening training areas were in Iraq and Iran. Because there was an abundance of further information of the existence of non conventional weapons in Iraq and the likelihood that they would very soon be in the hands of al Qaeda terrorists, Iraq was the next target..and may not be the last. Right or wrongly, you have to admire the manner in which the US Gov't has taken the battle to the terrorists in those areas and not on US soil. Again, rightly or wrongly, it cannot be denied that the terrorist training camps have been eliminated in Afghanistan and Iraq and subsequently, the terrorists are on the run. There is ample evidence to now indicate that their operations have been greatly disrupted and the threat to the US way of life has been significantly reduced or eliminated. YOu can argue the need for the war till blue in the face but you cannot argue with these results. America is a safer place and Democracy is on the march in that region of the world.

Answer 4

the iraq war started with saddam.. he invaded another country back in the early 90's we kicked his tail all over and free'd the country.. over the next 10 plus years the UN passed about 17 resulations (spelling ) demanding he disarm and prove he did... all weopons including but not limited to WMD.. chemical bios.. he refused and played a cat and mouse game for years... shooting at UN and American aircraft doing everything he could to look like he was in control... the also said that if the US invaded his nation he would use bio and chem weapons on them... the UN passed more rules saying give them up or prove you dont have them.. he refused.. and then we kicked his tail all over.. but never found the weapons..
now some wackos on the far left say bush lied about the WMD... but we know he had them at one point... he just didnt find them saddam at any point before the war started could have said WAIT,... time out i want the UN to look around and see I have nothing up... and we would have had no reason to go in... he wanted the war and he got it..

by the way... all but 1 democrat voted for the war... and the senate intell comm. had all but 2 seats full of democrats. and they all said the same thing Bush said.... and they get the info before bush did...

Answer 5

Which war? The war in Iraq? That started based on lies!

Answer 6

Which war?.... There were many wars. You could be a little more specific as to which war you are referring to.

Answer 7

Which one? Amen to Purple_Lily76!
Finally an answer that doesn't just say... "Bush Sucks" or "Bush is an idiot" an intelligent answer finally!! Woohoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!
I'm sure the terrorists laugh all the time when this divided country makes it hard for our Gov't to protect us. There are even people who side with the terrorists. Do we want to be protected or do we want them to have the ability, place and time to gather their forces and resources? They're using subterfuge in Iraq to point the blame at us for their people getting blown up every day in markets and such. The Cubans do it to us through Cuban supported 'peace rallies'. Just find out who is coordinating some of these peace rallies and do a background. You'll find that some of them actually went to Cuba and learned how to create dissention by using public opinion. This is a free country so they use our laws and freedoms against us. Isn't that ironic?

No training camps in Iraq? I was present when we destroyed 8 of them during OIF 1. Where are getting your information? How do you explain Al-Zarquawi? He was head of the Iraqi branch of Al-Qaeda.

Answer 8

Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston harbor, driving the Union defenders out. From there, it was a bloody four years.

Answer 9

Let's play this game. Let's use a different time-frame. Let's go back to the fall of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of the Great War. The British are given a mandate by the League of Nations to administer the territories of the Middle East. Britain breaks the map up rather arbitrarily, not along cultural or ethnic lines but rather in terms of its own geopolitical interests. Iraq is formed and separated from Kuwait with the express purpose of limiting its access to oil and ports. Britain also makes ambiguous promises to the residents of Palestine regarding the formation of a Jewish and a Palestinian state (the Balfour Declaration). In the process, Britain secures a monopoly over Middle Eastern oil.
After World War II, the US, the UK and the USSR have all occupied Iran. To resolve the detente, a deal is made between Anglos and Soviets, one quickly unmade by the Shah as soon as the Communists retreated. Palestine (then full of Palestinians) is reserved by the UN for the Jewish state.
The British impose a monarchy in Iraq, deposed in the mid-war period and restored to power and shortly after deposed again by nationalist Abdul Karim Qassim, friendly to the Soviets. He was deposed and after some quarrel we get the 1968 Baath party. Now, the anglos were happy.
In the mean time, in Iran nationalist Mossadegh is deposed by a US/Uk-backed coup; Israel, governed by the terrorist groups who preassured the Uk into setting up Israel has pursued a campaign of expansion to respond to its neighbors' opposition to an occupying Jewish state. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee from a domestic terror campaign against the indigenous population. In Egypt, Nasser campaigns for Arab Unity, gets himself in a standoff with Israel.
Israel get it self in more wars, the US gives it more money. The Arab countries cut oil production and ring alarm bells throughout the world.
In Iran, the US/UK imposed Shah is toppled by the Islamic Revolution in 1979. Also in 1979, the Soviets are lured into invading Afghanistan and the CIA trains armies worth of Jihadis to wage terrorism on the Commies. Also in 1979, Nicaraguans overthrow the US backed dictator Somoza, Central America enters a period of overt guerrilla war under a US sponsored persecution of nationalists and communists. Saddam Hussein is taken off of Congress terror list by Reagan in order to provide him with military aid. Reagan must have known, perhaps Rumsfeld did, that at that moment (1983) Saddam was in the midst of his own Kurdish genocide. Yet the US Pres, was more interested in using Hussein against Tehran, and gave Saddam all necessary assurances that he would be well supplied against the Islamists. About a million died in the Iraq-Iran war (1980-1988).
The Palestinian people are now huddled in the occupied territories and decide to follow the Jews' example and orchestrate a campaign of resistance, the first Intifada (1987). Israel constantly expands into the lands of the Palestinians without ever settling to any borders.
Saddam Hussein, misreading US approval, invades Kuwait. Bush I sees the opportunity to up his approval ratings and invades the Gulf. The US deploys troops to the perennial Saudi ally, angering a whole generation of Jihadists. After defeating Iraq, the US imposes a brutal blockade with an estimated death toll of over a million (particularly affecting children).
Now, this is how the war started. Bush II, lacking a mandate, his electoral victory questioned, his support rate mediocre at best, gets the gift of 9-11. The media and the gov. manipulate the public into believing they are being attacked by evil people who envy their values, rather than by a pragmatic US trained militant with the express purpose of making the US occupation of the middle east prohibitively expensive. In the minds of Americans there is suddenly a league of nations hell bent on destroying freedom and cuddly rabbits. So, they look away from the serious curtailing of their freedoms and the appropriation of their hard earned tax dollars for the purpose of funding yet another invasion of the Middle East after a century of invasions and resistances. This time, ambitious young Dubya wants Iraq back, he wants Afghanistan, and just to make Reagan's dream come true, he antagonizes and threatens a moderate Iran.
Today, with the 15 British soldier fiasco, thinking about those other soldiers killed in disputed territory, during the Invasion of Mexico, I try not let the lack of historical perspective in this country bother me. So let me remind you, the war in the Middle East did not start in the Crusades, although they do set a worthy precedent. The Middle East War starts with the occupation of the Ottoman territories on the part of the UK, it is born in the British incapacity to administer the area impartially, it stems from the west's proxy wars against communism in the area, the destruction of the secular left by the training of islamist guerillas, the support of Israel in its defiance against the UN and its neighbors and the support for murderous tyrants on the part of the US in the region and elsewhere.
The conflict was taken out of context twice this century, first to invade Afghanistan and the Iraq. Afghanistan was a failed state and should have been occupied by the UN after its repeated human rights abuses and the destruction of the Buddha's, part of our universal heritage. Not beaten down in a legalistic game of faked offenses, since the Taliban had all the right of any government to demand proof against the accused before startinmg extradition proceedings. As for the WMD's there is no need to go into it, there are none. Iraquis are living worst than under the blockade, much worst than during the Iran War.
The US is getting its oil, and that will be the cause of many more wars to come.