Why is that so many people disagree with the war?

Question

when a day or two after 9/11 the whole nation was screaming kill'em all(terrorists)! Now that were years into the war people are supposedly "outraged". What changed? Did 9/11 all of a sudden not happen? Did the almost 3000 INNOCENT people come back to life? Or is it the fact that soilders are dying?

I think people forget that each and every soilder that signs up for the military UNDERSTANDS and KNOWS that he may die in war. The military doesn't keep it a secret, and they never will.

So my question is why has this country all of a sudden lost it's nerve and gumption to fight against terrorism?

For months after 9/11 we held signs saying, "we'll never forget", from what I'm seeing on the news and the way people are talking seems like we already have.

What do you think?

Iraq was invaded because it is a main strategic spot for radical islam(the group of radical extremists that attacked us on 9/11).

The president has NEVER said Iraq was responsible for the attack.

The war is a war on terror, not on Iraq.

Clinton had a chance when he was office to stop 9/11 before it happened. He did nothing. Instead of fighting terrorism he was in the oval office making whoppie. Doesn't that warrant removal from office?

Do people forget that most of the innocent people killed, are killed by the terrorists, and not by American Soilders?

Answer 1

im all for the war i hate terrorist who life to kill inocent people. if we sit back and do nothing while people get blown up and killed they win and voilence is the only option they will not stop until they are killed. i can't wait till i get a chance to send the terrorist to there graves.

Ezekiel 25:17
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

Answer 2

Yes, a day or so after the destruction on 9/11 the entire country seemed to be screaming "kill 'em all" . We were all outraged that this atrocity could happen on our soil, in our country , in our home. I am not sure why we were so arrogant, but we were and are. Initially we supposedly went after the people who committed the atrocity- The Al-Kaida, and Osama Binladin. Shortly thereafter it seems, the focus shifted and we were at war with Iraq, and Saddam Hussein, due to invisible, nonexistent Weapons of Mass Destruction. Seems interesting that Bin Laden was 'forgotten' and we pulled away from where we had information he was and sent our troops elsewhere.

No, we do not forget that each and every person in the Military signs up freely, knowing the odds. What you may not realize, or care to address, is the fact that thousands of those who are over there did NOT sign up for active duty - they signed up for what is essentuially the protection of US citizens ON US SOIL. (that would be the reserves).

We have not forgotten 9/11, we are merely aware that the government may have.

Answer 3

The first answer given claims that Bush lied, as have many people, including politicians and other well intended people with very good educations.

History does not forget FACTS and the facts show unequivocally that the Clinton Administration said all of the same things about Iraq and Saddam Hussein. Operation Desert Fox, without UN or Congressional permission was a 4 day bombing of Iraq ordered by Bush, assisted by Blair of the UK, documented here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Desert_Fox

The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 was passed under the Clinton Administration and during the lead up to the vote, the President, Vice President, Secy of State, Secy of Defense and others like the NSA widely publicized that Iraq had WMD and posed a direct threat to the security of the USA. Verify for yourself here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_Liberation_Act

For many months after the Iraq war began, the approval ratings for the action were remarkably high. But we are a fickle people who want and expect quick fixes, instant gratification and can ignore our history when it suits us.

But if you do your own research you will find that the Bush relied on the same information from the same sources that his predecessor did and that's why Hillary and most of the other Democrat Senators endorsed his request.

I'm from the Pearl Harbor area, as a kid in Hawaii, I saw it unfold from a far away rooftop. I haven't forgotten.

How quickly and conveniently we forget, even if we have to turn truth into lies.

Answer 4

How the hell do people think the war started? It seems like all the anti war answers revolve around "Bush lied" and "our troups are dying." Did Bush lie when he made his statement about 2 planes hitting the towers in an act of terrorism? Yes, our soldiers have been killed--this is real war, not a gd Battleship game. What do these people think would have happened if we didn't go to war? That peace and harmony would be restored and all of this would turn out to be a bad dream? In 6 yrs, as many of our troups have been killed as the terrorists killed (innocent people at work) in ONE DAY. Where's the justice for the victims here if we roll over and say "Don't worry about all that plane stuff..it's ok" If we didn't do anything, it would have been inviting more attacks on a cowardly nation. Going to war means standing up for your country. Some people need to learn about that.

Answer 5

Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. Bush rode the Patriotic Orgy that ensued after this event, right into Iraq. Afghanistan, Justifiable absolutley. Al-Qaeda had bases funded and established by the Taliban. I was 100% on board as was the rest of the world. Then Iraq..not so much. AL-Qaeda is an ideology. This war is not going to be won by attacking every country with brown people in it, or even muslims in it. AL-Qaeda is a radical rogue organization and to root them out it takes diplomacy with the countries where they exist so that we can use covert ops to infiltrate and destroy these groups as well as seize their bank accounts and funds in these countries. WE HAVE GOT TO GET OUT OF THIS COLD WAR BATTlE STRATEGY! This is not the cold war and this war can not be fought the same way. Getting mired down in an arbitrary third party country only hinders our progress.
In the second clip below (Don't worry they are short) Hans Blix makes and interesting comment "It is somewhat puzzling that you can have 100% certainty of the presence of WMD but 0% certainty of their location"

Also in another clip it talks about the US being in violation of international law when we invaded Iraq. And the Surprise by ground forces, that had been hearing how dangeraous Saddam was - met almost no resistance going in

Look at one of Bush's speeches leading into Iraq and see how many times he mentions IOraq, WMD's and 9/11 in those speeches, providing a cognitive association between Saddam and the 9/11 events to all those watching or listening. He basically mind F****ed all of us.

Answer 6

You are absolutely correct sir. Why people forget about the reasons and the goal? I have no idea. Why the idiots in Congress like Pelosi, Reid, Kennedy, Kerry, ect... rant and rave and sound like blithering traitorous fools is easy. They have put their own political interest ahead of the interest of the country and the people they were supposedly elected to serve and protect. Their hatred for Bush is all consuming and they can"t think of anything else except discrediting him and getting re-elected. It is truly disgusting. They need to be run out of town on a rail in 08 and hope and pray that's what happens to them.
Oh, and to all you sheep of the liberal media saying Bush lied, please try to give one example of a lie he told. Understanding that a lie is to deliberately mislead or mis- state the truth. Like when you all say , Bush lied, there were no weapons of mass destruction. Yet Hillary Clinton, John Kerry, Harry Reid all stated the exact same thing when looking at the exact same intelligence reports from Israel, Great Britain and our own intelligence networks. And we know he had weapons of mass destruction since he used them on his own people when he used nerve gas and killed thousands after the first Gulf war...Or did you all forget that? Open your eyes and quit acting like sheep to the liberal media. Do some research on your own and quit repeating nonsensical liberal talking points , like, Bush lied, our troops died...It's ok to have an opinion and be against the war on terror, just have it because that's what you believe is right, not because you repeat the garbage you are being fed and gobbling up. Let me quote Kerry during the last election. "if you don't believe Saddam Hussein is a danger and threat with weapons of mass destruction, then don't vote for me!". And they were all making similar statements, hmmmm, wonder why they don't play those on the news all the time? How soon you sheep forget! It is embarrassing how quickly the truth is lost in the media blitz of liberal biased hogwash.

Answer 7

Terror is not a physical enemy. Terror is an emotion. It is not an act of sanity to use the military to fight an emotion.

Terrorism is a tactic, not an enemy. You do not defeat an enemy by declaring "war" on a tactic.

So what is our actual enemy? Why not Saudi Arabia? The hijackers who slammed airplanes into the WTC were not Iraqis; they were Saudi Arabians.

But wait - oh, of course. George Bush and his oil cronies have longstanding profitable relationships with Saudi Arabians including the Bin Laden clan. So no way must we rock the boat by looking for our real enemy. Oh no. Let's just instead attack some other country.

Is Osama Bin Laden our real enemy? Does anybody really believe that the huge Bin Laden clan in Saudi Arabia doesn't know exactly where he is - and sends him money?

Do you know how close-knit and loyal to each other family members are in Saudi Arabia? Osama needs constant medical care - does anybody really imagine that his family doesn't make sure he gets what he needs?

Does anybody think Bush wants Osama captured and brought to trial, which would bring facts out into the open? Do you not know what a profitable relationship the Bush-Bin Laden alliance has been?

Answer 8

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Answer 9

I for one am against the war because every time an innocent iraqi child dies from an accidental bomb blast, a hundred more people in the middle east decide that they hate the united states and become terrorists. We are creating more terrorists, not killing them off.
Most of the iraqis that have died so far are innocent, in the wrong place at the wrong time, many as an indirect result of the war, many directly killed by the war. They number in at over 100,000. Some sources cite the number at over 500,000. Is it acceptable to kill 10 women and children to blow up one terrorists, as long as those women and children are of a different religion, speak a different language, have slightly darker skin?
"Better a hundred innocent man hang than one guilty one walk free" is a sentiment expressed in the 18th century. It doesn't belong in the 21st

Answer 10

What new friend said plus WE DID ATTACK THE COUNTRY harboring the masterminds of the 9/11 attack . The government then said oh Iraq has weapons we have to attack them Bush lied and our troops died .Albeit Saddam was a bad guy killing all those people in his country attacking Kuwait it was proven that he had no weapons and that he had no ties to alqdaia and we ignore the country that the most of the terrorist were from Saudi Arabia