I don't get it...? why are we in iraq?

Question

I am not saying anything negative towards this 'war' or 'conflict' or whatever I honestly don't understand. and how many people have died in iraq on both sides just for perspective.

No i do not admit to not knowing anything about why we are there, well actually not true i am australia and i don't know why the **** we are there, it is johnny's warped version of a peeing contest i believe but umm i do no reason just not an answer i suppose. i just don't understand

it seem some people don't like my use of the word 'we' so let me explain i feel that, when it is something big somethingthat effects so many people that it is everyones problem, and everyones responsibility to do something and throw their opions in the hat, so that the people who are actually running the show, know how WE feel truely and accuratly no just the opions of the loudest voices

dear kenny ray, i do not own a tv.
i read the paper everyday. i know the details and why the politicians say we are there, and the reasons the paper spoon feeds me, i was i suppose just curious to what other people think. actually i first started thinking about it probably 6 months ago when a 7 year old boy asked pointed to a picture in the paper and said what is happenig there(i work with chidren) i mea he just liked the colours and the men in army suits but it got me thinking becuase if someone asked me for real i could not give them an answer and stand by it.

Answer 1

Because George W. Bush said so. If his daughters were in the military instead of the bar, we wouldn't be in Iraq now.

Answer 2

Over three thousand Americans have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan; that's nothing as wars go: 375,000 men died at the Battle of the Somme in The Great War. We are in Iraq because tens of millions of women over there are treated like dirt.

Answer 3

because George Bush wanted to get even with Saddam so he seized the opportunity 9/11 provided to justify invading Iraq. He pumped out so much propaganda that some people actually think it's about controlling terrorism. We took down Saddam and the entire government and put people with no political experience in charge and we're hanging around until they can defend themselves. Our president claims that there are terrorists coming into Iraq everyday and we must continue the fight.
I do not understand why we are not attacking the terrorists where they live and train but instead we stay in Iraq. Your confusion is understandable, I haven't understood it from the beginning

Answer 4

For Oil? Ridiculous answer, since our gas prices still continue to rise.
To Make Money? Another ridiculous answer, the US government has spent way more on the war in Iraq than it could ever get in return.
Using the 'Jihad' as an ruse to cover the greediness of the US and UK.. , are you flipping kidding me?! All you people need to STOP listening to the liberal media and really search out your answers.

Congress approved the US to go into Iraq (therefore it is not an illegal war), based on 'evidence' that supported the claims of WMD. Along the way they found out that Iraq had moved them / hid them. Let's check Syria next. The mission has changed from ousting Saddam and bringing democracy to Iraq with a government of their own to protecting the Iraqi people from the radical Islamists (their own countrymen). These terrorists who continue to take out the Iraqi police, the Iraqi military, the civilians and using their own children to get their dirty work done proves that we are dealing with sick minds who believe that they do it all for a God (Allah) that has called for it to be done. They will not stop till they do away with all moderate muslims and non-muslims (Christians, Jews, etc.). Have you all not heard the calls from the people of Iran, Lebanon, Syria, etc. to take out Israel and have you not heard the chants of 'Death to America'?

You say that at least under Saddam their country was stable. The people were better off? I guess gassing the Kurds and conducting killing raids would keep them under control and I suppose the Shite Muslims were better off then also with the same type of treatment. All those mass graves that were uncovered and warehouses where they kept the bodies to be buried must be Saddam's way of keeping the peace.
It is not because of the US/UK's presence that there is so much violence, it's because there are radicals that WANT to kill.

I feel sorry for the people of Iraq. Here they are trying to find peace, trying to create a better future for their children. Thanks to the US/UK they now have schools (for boys AND girls), they have hospitals, housing and protected communities ... even in certain areas of Baghdad. The people of Iraq need to take a stand for their future and stop their own countrymen from creating the chaos which they find themselves in.

Answer 5

I don't know but I have 3 cousins that are over there fighting right now. Fighting to not get killed basically. I don't think they even know why they are over there, only reason is because they signed up for the United States Military and they have to do what they are told to do and go where they are told to go. It's rather senseless if you ask me because we are fighting a losing battle. Tell me how in the hell are you going to fight someone you can't even see. You may see what looks like a civilian but it very well could be someone part of the military just waiting till you walk by and blow you both up. It's a war the United States will NEVER win....we need to pull out and send our troops back home to us...their family.

Answer 6

The whole thing is for your entertainment. You should pay more attention and try to keep up with the action. It is much more expensive to produce a war than a soap opera and there you are so busy with the soaps you just now heard about the war. Did you hear about what happened in New York to the Big buildings with the airplanes and the people. Did you hear that those terrorists who are killing the citizens and soldiers in Iraq want all Americans dead. Did you hear I'm giving them your address.

Answer 7

If we withdraw the troops now, we will be blamed for their failure and they will get mad at us and all the lives will have been lost for no reason, but if we stay over there, our troops will help them reconstruct and they will successfully start over and we will go in the history books as being herps instead the idiots we really are for being over there to beging with!

Answer 8

The Terrioist wnat us E L I M I N A T E D! so, we keep `em at-bay, over there? so they won't be able to bring it over here. `Cause if we leave? They're coming over here. And 9/11 would be like an Episode of American Idol.

Answer 9

We are there to kick out the U.N. Weopons inspectors, oh no, that has changed... We are there to find the weopons of mass destruction, and save the world from the immenent danger of their use, oh no, that has changed... We are there to secure the oil fields, oh no that has changed... We are there to oust Saddam Hussein, oh no, that has changed... We are there to bring Democracy to Iraq, oh no that has changed... We are there to build a new Iraqi government, oh no that has changed... Yeah, why are we there?

But, not to fear, bush says we will remain there until he is out of office.

So there ~

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Answer 10

The way I see it, if we are passive in our stance (like Fance, Canada, etc.), that we better get used to the idea of having suicide bombings in the US and in the UK. Unless we make our stance strong by having a continued presence in the middle east and continue to fight the war on terror in THEIR neck of the woods, then we will have to start fighting this war in our own backyard. They (middle eastern countries) hate the West...whether we do anything or not. If we help them, they hate us....if we ignore them, they hate us. The real issue here is that they are jealous of our success as a country. Since we will probably never make them happy, we might as well be safe by managing the issue on THEIR turf and not ours. It is not possible for a terrorist state (like Iran or Iraq) to manage itself.