WMD in Iraq?

Question

The war on Iraq was not what we though it was?
Did president Bush lie about there being Weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? If so did Bush say this because he wanted to change Iraq to a Republic?

I guess what I want to know is if George Bush had false infomation or that he just wanted an excuse to make Iraq a Republic?

Everybody not only would i like your facts but could you also have some facts to go alng with it? If not its okay i just mant to see where you guys get these ideas from.

Answer 1

He didn't lie, he was telling a false fact

Answer 2

Bush and his cronies did not lie but were too quick to believe a Iragi National that left Iraq and sought political asylum in Europe and then was quick to tell the Goverments esp the US that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction etc. the mistake, and a reckless mistake it was that Bush and His administration took this man's claims over the findings of the UN INspectors who never found any weapons of mass destruction,ignored the directive of the UN who did not approve of beginning a war with Iraq and also dismissed another report by the UN INspectors who would have gone into Iraq again and Hassaam had given them entry into Iraq. Fact is that Bush wanted to invade and so was quick to believe the Iraqi informer and convinced himself as did the administration that indeed there were weapons . We all know now there were none. Its all politics. The US had no right to invade iraq for Iraq had not threatened nor posed a threat to the US and even if we disagreed with the cruelty/methods of Hassaam and his Govt other ways could have been found like assassination(its not like the US esp the CIA has not done this already when beneficial to US) than destroying the entire country and the killing of civilians.

Answer 3

He said the information given by intelligence were WMD in Iraq. If there were they have never been located. Since Saddam of Iraq and Iran were bitter enemies, I doubt they are there or any other Muslim country.

What guarantee does the U.S. have with the oil in Iraq, during or after the war. How can a President be willing to allow so many innocent lives for oil that is not ours and may never be? All Military Troops are in the middle of a civil war between the Shiites & Sunni's. This will not change, these people are extremely hard-headed. You can not trust these people, either side. No matter what happens there it is always the American's fault, according to them.
This is absolutely crazy, listen to this: Cabinet ministers loyal to radical cleric (thug) Muqtada al-Sadr a powerful Shiite leader quit the government because the US-backed prime minister & raising fears al-Sadr's army milita might again confront American Troops. WHAT in the ---- are the U.S.& the prime minister of Iraq trying to set-up a government for this country with radical Islamic militas?
How could our country and/or Iraq agree to have these people as part of the governing forces to bring stability &
truth. Something is up! I thought Bush said we were trying to bring democracy in this country, this is not democracy. This Islamnic Milita are the ones killing our Troops and Coalation Forces.I guess our government believe we are all stupid!
It's like everyone is on the merry-go-round and noone knows how to stop it!

Answer 4

WMD was false from the beginning it was a easy lie to see through. Bush constantly making up that they are moving the weapons here then there. We have no reason to be in Iraq.
To change it into a republic?? what right do we have to go and do that? Bush has abused his power as president creating a war for no reason and not ending it when appropriate

Answer 5

Saddam would have done just about anything he thought he could get away with, but he was contained by the 1991 ceasefire. An added benefit was that our pilots got useful flight time and practice in the no-fly zone.

It was a nice, relatively cheap way of keeping him in check while HE kept Al Qaeda in check there.

But nooo, NOOO... that wasn't good enough for the Bush Administration. Colin Powell was the only one who really understood what military operations are all about, and--like anyone else who's actually served in the military--he didn't take the idea of going to war lightly.

The Bushios knew that nothing succeeds like success, and thought this would be an easy thing. So they did it, and four years later we're still there with no end in sight.

It was a T-E-R-R-I-B-L-E miscalculation built on faulty intelligence, that just about anyone else would have had sense enough not to blunder into. But I don't think it was really a lie per-se.

Answer 6

Yep, Bush, the U.N., almost every Senator and Representative in Washington, every intelligence agency in the world, Saddam Hussein himself and Carl Rove -- all a bunch of liars.

The U.N inspectors could not verify the destruction of weapons we know Saddam had. How do we know he had them? He used them.

Given that he had them at one time and no one could verify he had destroyed them, would it not be logical to assume that he still had them?

And then there's this...

"Since 2003, coalition forces have recovered approximately 500 weapons munitions which contain degraded mustard or sarin nerve agent. Despite many efforts to locate and destroy Iraq's pre-Gulf War chemical munitions, filled and unfilled pre-Gulf War chemical munitions are assessed to still exist."

Answer 7

Who knows, honestly? Personally, I feel the President was trying to finsh what his father started in the Middle East. Aparently, other forms of government aren't good enough for another country besides the US...so, changing them into what the US is would be ideal... Maybe Iraq would seem easier to control. I don't know.

Answer 8

I think he wanted to go over and get the guy who planned on killing his precious daddy. He may have been given false information, but he is doing exactly what he wants to do and it's time he's stopped - before he puts us at war with the world! Iraq is basically in civil war now, so I think it's time we get out and let them fight it out, the way we fought our own civil war so many years ago! Let the people fight for what they want among themselves and may the best 'man' win!

Answer 9

no he did not lie just because he did not find any dont mean it aint there. He would not go to war for no reason at all and not just to change a country bc there are plenty of other countries who feel the same way the iraqis do. He is doing the best he can being President is not an easy job.

Answer 10

I know some people in Iraq and they say we are doing alot of good down there. They say that all we hear about are the bad stuff.

Answer 11

He was relying on the best available intel at the time.

By the way, WMD's were discovered in Iraq, just no nukes.