Can we have the right war for the wrong reasons?

Question

I am uncertain of my feelings on the war in Iraq. I also am uncertain of my feelings on Bush. These days there are so many people screaming from both sides, that I can't see or hear clearly enough the evidence to decide for myself. I think we are doing some good overseas, regardless of Bush's personal motivations for doing so.

So to rephrase, even if Bush could care less about terrorism and only wants to somehow make money off of this whole Iraq war thing, does the fact that there are a bunch of grateful of Iraqi citizens who recently had the experience of electing their new governmental leaders, not to mention the freedom their women now have to show their face in public, or any of the not so mentioned positives to the American presence in the middle east, do any of these things matter?

Or consider 10 years down the road, when Iraq has stabilized it's new form of government, and we have a valuable ally in the middle east. When they add us to their history books, and terrorism, although it cannot be stopped, is no longer tolerated or feared on a national level. All because we took the initiative, when everyone else just wanted to sit around talking with their thumbs up their butts...

Answer 1

well... first off... if you look at the history of Iraq... stability may not be possible... the only peace they have had is under a murderous dictator...

unless you can think of a way to get people to magically change religions? that's the whole thing... this isn't merely political... in fact, it's barely political at all...

but, to your main question... the problem is POPULARITY AND SUPPORT...

if you lie, even if it's accidental... people don't like to be lied to, especially when their kids are dying... and I can understand that....

so, lies almost always lead to unpopularity... especially in war...

if you see the photos of people dying every day, that you see in the news... it's important to have a single moral justification for the actions being taken... and Bush has changed his story again and again... and the focus of the war has been completely lost...

and public support is always needed in war...

you could, in a way, say the Bush PR blunders have harmed the war effort much more than anything else... it's been painful to watch his admin deal with the media... tap dancing, when they may actually have points that they could hammer home...

I'll put it this way... if Bush had said from the beginning "this is to free Iraq from a dicator, that's the main goal"... and stuck to it... I think we would be in a vastly different situation "popularity" wise with the war...and that wouldn't be a lie...

Answer 2

95% of everything is rubbish and its almost impossible to find the truth. Almost every media outlet has an audience it is pandering to in order to sell advertising, its business.

We are almost $1 trillion down, 3,000+ young soldiers out, plus 500,000 Iraqis if anyone is keeping score.
And for what? Who is our enemy again and why are we in Iraq?

I don't think American style democracy is what Iraqis want, it seems they want seperate states, Sunni, Shiia.

Oh, and oil. It is about oil and Israel. If we weren't over there, there might be an even bigger war going on with nukes and bio weapons spread all around the mideast.

Answer 3

Please, please please stop watching abc, msnbc, and cnn. What fox news. Its the only news channel that report the truth whether its republican or democratic. If you want to know the truth about the war in iraq, watch and unbiased news source. Everybody says fox news is bad because it doesn't follow liberal views.

Answer 4

a war of aggression, especially one based on lies, is NEVER right

Answer 5

What a mess George Bush has created, how many more to die, for his stupidity, sad.