If you were free before the war and free now. How is it for your freedom? It isn't for Iraqi freedom, we already freed them. The rest is up to them in any case. Propping up a government is no guarantee.
They could blow up 20 buildings and America would still be free. Gandhi conquered a nation with out one rifle. Martin Luther Kind faced the government with not one act of aggression. Yet we feel it's the only way to bomb our "suspected" enemies into submission?
Afghanistan was a direct reaction to 911 and was a measured and appropriate response.
But to actually believe we are fighting for freedom in Iraq, when the outcome either way will not effect freedom is kind of foolish.
2007-04-10 09:19:43 · 21 answers · asked by ScooterLibby 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
So far most all of you "get it" its about MONEY!
2007-04-10 09:27:37 · update #1
The war in Iraq is for freedom. The freedom of Halliburton and so forth to make billions off tax payers.
2007-04-10 09:24:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
I am not even sure if Oil is the main driving force, but we know its not Freedom. Regardless we could set up a Democracy for them and pull out of the region and two years later the government would be corrupt or even over thrown. They don't live that way and never will.
The reason we are there is because war pays money on contracts, and when you award your friends and families favorite company (Haliburton) all those no bid contracts the longer the war lasts the more money everyone makes. Then when you get caught cheating the system like its apparent the Bush cartel did, you move that company's headquarters to Saudi so you don't have to pay all those taxes. Smart plan actually, just don't understand why all the Republicans went along with it for so long, now they all look dumb and lost their credibility.
2007-04-10 16:38:20 · answer #2 · answered by bs b 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
People don't value freedom until they have it taken away from them. The war in Iraq is for greed, not freedom. Besides, what we consider freedom in the U.S. isn't important to many people from other cultures. What Muslims think of when we talk about our freedom is probably something like "girls gone wild". If the people in Iraq want peace and freedom, they should take a stand for it and stop all the sectarian hatred and violence. Instead, Shiites are stealing homes from their Sunni neighbors and both sides are using the U.S. occupation as an opportunity to settle old scores (with support and encouragement from the clerical establishment there). Why are we still there?
2007-04-10 16:39:08 · answer #3 · answered by doubt_is_freedom 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Let's see, the Bush family was in the oil industry before getting into government. It couldn't be the oil the Bushes have been lusting after all these years for their private interests? Invasion of Iraq is a farce. The manipulation of the US government by the Bush cartel is the greatest crime pulled over on the American nation. Saving Kuwait, the Kurds or the Saudis has never been the Bush family's reason for America's presence in the Gulf, nor has it been freedom for these peoples. It has been this family's lust for the black gold......OIL! OIL! OIL! OIL! OIL! OIL!
2007-04-10 16:30:44 · answer #4 · answered by boxjellÿ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Certainly many people believe Bssh's claim that we are fighting for freedom in Iraq. Many people also believe in UFOs and the Tooth Fairy.
2007-04-10 16:30:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The freedom for Bush to greatly expand the powers of his administration.
2007-04-10 16:28:53 · answer #6 · answered by ck4829 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I cannot express my own very same thoughts as yours. Once Bush has gotten rid of Saddam Hussein, it was up to the Iraqis to decide what kind of freedom they want. You just can't impose democratic freedom on any one unless they want it enough to fight for it themselves. The U.S. troops fighting and dying for Iraqi freedom is obnoxious.
2007-04-10 16:31:20 · answer #7 · answered by furrryyy 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's all about oil and the military industrial complex corporations making billions off our tax dollars while our soldiers make nothing and risk and sacrifice everything including their lives.
2007-04-10 16:39:39 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Your question is completely valid in point. Unfortunately it's going to bring out the mental ward unleashing insults and ignorance, watch.
2007-04-10 16:26:49 · answer #9 · answered by Gabriel Anton 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
"We are fighting for oil- and the control of oil. Democracy in the Middle East would not serve our interest." This is the unofficial version of the truth.
2007-04-10 16:25:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋