how did the war in iraq started?

Answer 1

.......the so-called smart people elected a "dumb president"......Bush.... which is actually part of the "antichrist" , now he's messing with "holy land" and he's responsible for killing people daily. "he will NOT conquer Iraq under any circumstances".

Answer 2

Much of RKO's answer is true except for the part about the Iraqi government being a puppet government of the US. The Iraqis actually did go to the polls and elected the government in place. Unfortunately, they elected a government based on the advice of the Shia clerics like Al Sadr and now have a pro Iranian non-secular government in place. There are two active occupations in Iraq now. The US occupation and the more succesful Iranian occupation. And of course Al Qaida is there now too.

We are now in the process of negotiating with the Sunni insurgent groups and encouraging them to fight against Al Qaida in Iraq (The Islamic State of Iraq). Most of the Sunni insurgents are from the former Iraqi army who were left without jobs or pensions after the US invasion. As for the Shia insurgents, we are pretty much screwed because they are backed by Iran and the Iraqi government.

It turns out that the Bush administration fed the world a bunch of BS after manipulating information to justify the war. They made a lot of really stupid assumptions, assuming we would need only 150,000 troops because we would be "welcomed as liberators". They didn't listen to everybody telling them we needed 400-500 thousand troops. They disbanded the Iraqi army which now makes up most of the Sunni insurgency and until recently worked alongside Al Qaida. They threw every single Bathist out of the government leaving the country in chaos, the mistakes go on and on...The worst being that this played right into the hands of Al Qaida helping to spread their ideology through out the world.

Bush will go down in history as the worst American president ever. And the war in Iraq will be America's biggest blunder thus far. Oh I forgot to mention that the entire world has lost respect for America and pretty much hates us now.

Answer 3

PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH in 2003: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

But there was one problem: the document Bush quoted was fake.

Bush’s declaration was based on an intelligence about a phony document that provided evidence about Iraq's purchase of uranium from the African country of Niger.

The person who had a main role in faking and then selling the documents for profit was Rocko Martino, a former Italian SISMI agent.

SISMI is the Italian CIA. It’s the secret service, the counterintelligence service. And Rocco Martino made his profit, and his documents made their way to the White House.

Carlo Bonini is the Italian reporter who broke the story. His new book is called Collusion: International Espionage and the War on Terror. The book answers your question.

Bush's cabinet were deliberately using unsubstantiated documentation that the CIA had dismissed as fake, but Bush and his cabal dismissed the CIA evidence and went to war anyway.

Answer 4

Read "The Greatest Story Ever SOLD" by Frank Rich - it's a devastating expose' on how the Bush administration planned to go to war as soon as it came into office. There were only three reasons why we went to war with Iraq, in my personal opinion:
1) The Bush family had a personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein ever since the days of Desert Storm when George H.W. Bush was criticized, ridiculed and humiliated for not 'finishing the job' and ousting Hussein at that time;
2) The oil tycoons (who control the Bush administration from behind-the-scenes) wanted all that OIL swimming underneath Iraq's sands so that Cheney and his Exxon-Mobil buddies could get richer and richer and richer feeding American motorists' addiction to cheap, easily-accessible foreign OIL;
3) Ever since World War II, the giant U.S. military-industrial complex recognized how profitable war could be. So they bought up all the politicians, hired pricey lobbyists, and formed special interest groups to encourage and promote war. Thus, the U.S. was involved in the Korean Conflict; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the Cold War; Vietnam; and Desert Storm - all to help boost the profits of war profiteers.
That's how and why we're in Iraq (by the way, if we really intend to pull out soon, WHY is the U.S.A. building the world's largest embassy on a 104-acre site in downtown Baghdad overlooking the 'new' puppet Iraqi government installed by the Bush administration?).
That's also why we'll soon be attacking Iran: OIL and MONEY. Nothing else. No intent to bring democracy to either of those radical Muslim nations. No concern over Iran's oppressed citizens. We're charlatans - sheep in wolves' clothing. -RKO- 04/15/07

Answer 5

When Iraq and Iran were at war, the US backed Iraq, since Iran was full of terrorists, and captured the people in the US Embassy and held them for over a year. The US supplied Iraq with all sorts of weapons, including the weapons of mass destruction, but didn't give them the repair tools to keep them operational. When the war ended, Hussein didn't play ball with the US. Hussein used the weapons that he had left to eliminate the people of his own country, who he wanted to eliminate. Bush told everyone a bunch of lies to get everyone in line as a way to justify the war, after 9/11. Although, it has been proven,by the CIA, FBI, and every other agency, that Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with 9/11. Saudi Arabia had 13 of the 15 terrorists come from that country, but we didn't attack them, because they are friends with Bush.

Answer 6

Bush and Cheney and Rumsfeld couldn't stand the thought of Saddam sitting there governing Iraq the way he was.

They felt the people of Iraq deserved a better future.

Answer 7

He went in on questionable intelligence.

WMD's being produced, ties to al-qaeda.

The waris justified seeing that Saddam shot on our aircraft, violated UN resolutions, kicked inspectors out, paid palestinian sucide bombers' families.

But the reasons he gave and the lack of finding these reasons, is why his war is unpopular.

Answer 8

Saddam was making it look like he had WMDs to deture Iran from invading, something Saddam ADMITED to doing. We tried to make it look like he had soemthing to do with 9/11 when Saddam was more evil to terrorists than we could ever be. The actual step went when Saddam kicked out weapons inspectors for accusing him of building new weapons and wanted him to prove to the UN along with Iran that we wasn't. But, in order to do that, he had to prove he wasn't capable of defending himself against Iran. So, he kicked them out hoping that he could get a resolution from the UN, but the US didn't give the UN time, and invaded against their will.

The war wasn't about oil. for those who say it is...they're retarded. We pay more for oil now (2.90) than we did before bush took office(1.10) not to mention, we're 9 trillion dollars in the hole now as opposed to 335 billion surplus we had when Bush took office. So, f people are saying we're profiting off of this war, they need to look up the definition of profit.


We as Americans now know why the Germans didn't stop the Nazi rise. Hitler had control over the general population just like Bush has over us.

Answer 9

Saddam Heussien told Bush 1 that his mother wears army boots;) LOL

Answer 10

my opinion is bush became president . he wanted to be known as the war president . now that what i believe.