Why are Iraq and the U.S enemies???

Question

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Answer 1

Iraq and the U.S. are not enemies. As far as nations go, that is. The insurgency within Iraq is our enemy (The Sunni insurgency and al-Qaida in Iraq plus the foreign nationals who came just to kill Americans). The Iraqi people have never been our enemies. They just want to get on with their lives, but have been caught in the middle.

Answer 2

The bad blood between Iraq and the West began after World War One.
Iraq was a country that was slapped together by the British. It had been part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire. A lot of tribes that did not like each other were packaged together into a single nation.
Then, the US removed part of it, Kuwait, and gave them favored independence because they were pro-West. Kuwait blocks Iraq from the Persian Gulf.
Then, American oil companies began robbing the Iraqi people.
The rest is history.

Answer 3

Iraq and the US are not enemies. The US invaded Iraq to rid it of a dictator who refused to abide by the rules. The rules being a UN mandate, that he agreed to, following the battle over Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, in which Iraq's troops were chased out of Kuwait and then humiliated on the road to Baghdad as fighter plans bombed and strafed them and their vehicles. They were virtual sitting ducks with nowhere to hide as they drove their trucks north with no protection from the aerial assult that hit them at will.

Things quieted down for a few years, but Saddam was always defiant about abiding by the UN charter. Whem GWB came to office he had a very short fuse when it came to Saddam, perhaps too short a fuse. It was learned that Saddam had WMD which was not in accord to the UN mandate. Again, Saddam was defiant in letting UN inspectors in to check for WMD. It was then that the America president went to Congress for it's blessing to invade Iraq. AS it is, some would say that GWB rushed to judgement, but monday morning quarterbacking is perfect science.

Following Saddams ouster, the US helped the Iraqi people form a new democratic government. The transition from dictatorship to democracy has been rough, mainly due to the interference from Iran. This is what is causing this war to be prolonged, yet the US administration fails to acknowledge that Iran too must be defeated, if we hope to see peace in the middle east.

The Iraqi people are divided along religious lines. The Sunni tribes in the north and west of Baghdad are the allies of Saddam, before he was executed, and the Shiite tribes in Baghdad and to the south, have religious capatability with the Iranian people. Yet, the new democratic government of Iraq is controlled by the, Shiite because they have the largest population of people in Iraq . Their religious affiliation with Iran makes them less than trust worthy as far as the US is concerned. So basically what you have here, is allies who are your potential enemy and enemy who can be your ally, under the right conditions.

Answer 4

Saddam routinely murdered his own people - on one occasion, he murdered an estimated 5000 Iraqi Kurds with mustard gas and tabun, a nerve agent.
After the Gulf war in 1991, the UN inspection teams were often not allowed to inspect certain buildings and numerous areas by Saddam. He rejected several UN resolutions and kicked the inspection teams out of Iraq on at least two occasions. He paid a ransom to the families of suicide bombers who slaughtered thousands of innocent men, women and children. It was testified at his trial that his two sons often had women kidnapped and, after pleasuring themselves, would then have them murdered.
There's more, but I think you get the picture.

Answer 5

It all depends on how you define enemy, its a grey area, however The Country of Iraq actually loves us. Just the barbaric terrorists hate the U.S and Americans. If the US changed there name to Canada Minor or something they probably wouldnt hate us, there just so uptite about stupid things.

Answer 6

Iraq and the USA are not enemies but are friends.

Certain elements of radical Islamic terrorist organizations are the enemy that hate both Iraq and the US...

Answer 7

Because Saddam Hussien insulted and threatened George Bush senior and sonny boy is out for revenge.