why do we have to be in war against Iraq?

Answer 1

We're not at war with Iraq - it's purely a defensive posture against insurgents (or 'terrorists' in pro-nationalist Bush speak) *within* Iraq: we're protecting OUR assets.

And we would never intentionally inconvenience the Iraqis with conflict simply because plate-bleedin'-tectonics mistakenly dumped OUR oil fields within THEIR sovereign state. We aren't that petty.

Answer 2

War against Iraq? At war within Iraq!
The reason is so George Bush can save face!!!!
Does he really care if three thousand plus American troops have died over there? Yeah,sure he doesn't! Sound cynical? You bet. Lose a loved one over there and see how you feel, beside sick about the whole war. Sorry.

Answer 3

This is a non-question, we are not at war WITH Iraq, we are at war IN Iraq against Insurgents and Terrorist who are also using Iraq as a battleground.

Consider re-wording your question to get better answers.

Answer 4

Oh, hun, it isn't a war against Iraq. They call it that, but really it's just a war for oil. I know you must be tired hearing about it as well as I am. I even have a few family members who are in the military that are over there. The President in my opinion should bring our troops home. My best friend, Temon, was in the Marines and he just got home. His batallion went out with 500 and came back with 250. Our President just needs to withdraw troops because all he's doing is making foreign countries very angry with us. He should bring our boys home and start spending money on good things like funding for schools. Our schools have taken so many cuts that a lot of them are dwindling in the balance. It's very, very sad. Someone should grab Bush and make him listen to John Lennon songs nonstop. Then maybe he'd see what a horrible thing he's doing. :(

Answer 5

yes thats right protecting the US from imaginary 'weapons of mass destruction'. and sacrificing the lives of soldiers and Iraqis each day to achieve this non-existing goal.

BTW . Iraq was more stable under Saddam than it is now, where you got a potential civil war in your hands.

Answer 6

We don't is the answer. Not at all in fact we told Tony Blair we did not want to do this. Saddam Hussein complied to the investigations of weapons of mass destruction and no weapons were found.
Unfortunately politics is poltics and now we have to stabalize Iraq so the answer has changed to yes. Ironic is that we should have left it alone. Saddam was a nasty man but so is politics.

Answer 7

We are not in a war Against Iraq! Where have you been?

Answer 8

We aren't at war with Iraq, its with those who think, we are
infidels and need to die. We aren't going to stop, they should
have thought about it before, they attacked America, on 9/11.
They cant hide behind Burkas forever.

Answer 9

Do please try to get your facts straight... the US isn't fighting against Iraq.

The US is in Iraq under a UN mandate with the full support of a democratically elected Iraqi government to protect the Iraqi people from Islamic terrorists and extremists who want to take over the country and kill everyone who doesn't agree with their way of thinking. If they succeed then Iraq will become a new training ground for terrorists who will attack the west, including the US in the same way as terrorists trained in Afghanistan under the Taliban did... and you may recall something about aeroplanes being crashed into buildings to illustrate the kind of thing that happened then.

Answer 10

There is something we are not being told.

All we NEEDED to do was: librate Kuwait, free the American hostages, leave some black-eyes on the Iraqis on our way out, then hold the Kuwaiti border. But we're doing more - WHY? - no one really knows.

Probably for oil or some other economic reason. But think about it - there IS no reason for us to be there. There MUST be a reason though - but we will probably never know what it is within our lifetime.

Like Vietnam - we had to contain Communism, because without Imperial expansion it would collapse on itself, which is what it did. There IS a reason, but the public is not being told what it is.