how come people use 9/11 as an excuse for the iraq war?

Question

when iraq had nothing to do with it, plus the country that did do it, we had military bases in there country and it was there way of a retaliation strike, they did nothing wrong

Answer 1

how come people like you ask the same questions they were asking 5 years ago? I hate this stupid war and i'm tired of hearing about it, if it was up to me I'd pull all the troops from Iraq, let the middle east continue to destroy itself and do whatever it took to lower prices of gas in the US

Answer 2

Simple! If you recall immediately after 9/11 happened, our President, who is responsible for the safety and security of our 300 million Americans, stated that we would hunt down terrorists wherever they were and that anyone who was not "with us, was against us". At the time, there were documented accounts of Saddam's support of terrorism such as paying the families of suicide bombers $25,000. Saddam was also ignoring all attempts by the United Nations which were focusing on curbing the Iraqi dictator's development of weapons of mass destruction. As a result, there was a bipartisan vote in Washington which approved an attack on Saddam and his murderous dictatorship, who also, by the way, had been collaborating with Al Queda (those who were responsible for 9/11). So that is how we got where we are today. Unfortunately, Al Queda is still in Iraq and we have not succeeded as of yet in removing them from the country.

Answer 3

The Bush administration has benefited greatly from the tragedy of 9-11. While ignoring the recommendations of the 9-11 commission, Bush and Cheney have used 9-11 to orchestrate an entire broad and sweeping national foreign policy based upon fear.

This policy benefits only the Republican party, in that it strengthens their political hand, gives billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to their Department of Defense contractors and to Halliburton and keeps millions of American voters eating out of their hand in a perpetual state of fear and misguided patriotism.

The facts are this: A presidential election is drawing near and the American public is finally awakening to how ill-conceived this war really is. This means that in an effort to protect their interests, the Bush administration along with their media conglomerate, will beat the drum all that much louder on fear and pseudo-patriotism. Sadly, untold millions will hear the drum and blindly follow without question or conscience.

Answer 4

"The hard fact is that so long as Saddam remains in power, he threatens the well-being of his people, the peace of his region, the security of the world.

The best way to end that threat once and for all is with a new Iraqi government -- a government ready to live in peace with its neighbors, a government that respects the rights of its people."

President Clinton
Oval Office Address to the American People
December 16, 1998
http://www.cnn.com/allpolitics/stories/1...




"His regime threatens the safety of his people, the stability of his region, and the security of all the rest of us.

What if he fails to comply, and we fail to act, or we take some ambiguous third route which gives him yet more opportunities to develop this program of weapons of mass destruction and continue to press for the release of the sanctions and continue to ignore the solemn commitments that he made?

Well, he will conclude that the international community has lost its will. He will then conclude that he can go right on and do more to rebuild an arsenal of devastating destruction.

And some day, some way, I guarantee you, he'll use the arsenal."

President Clinton
Address to Joint Chiefs of Staff and Pentagon staff
February 17, 1998 http://www.cnn.com/allpolitics/1998/02/1...



CNN: How did Hussein intend to use the weapon, once it was completed?

HAMZA: Saddam has a whole range of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear, biological and chemical. According to German intelligence estimates, we expect him to have three nuclear weapons by 2005. So, the window will close by 2005, and we expect him then to be a lot more aggressive with his neighbors and encouraging terrorism, and using biological weapons. Now he's using them through surrogates like al Qaeda, but we expect he'll use them more aggressively then.

Dr. Khidhir Hamza, former Iraqi Nuclear Scientist for 20 years
Interviewed on CNN
October 22, 2001
http://www.cnn.com/2001/community/10/22/...

Answer 5

You are a history deny-er. It has been five years, so the facts will not be hard for you to find. Go to your local library and read newspapers for the time after 9/11 until now. There were numerous reasons for going to war with Iraq, and all were valid.

Answer 6

specific. In July 2001, Pakistani ambassador to the USA of a Niaz Niak pronounced that he were cautioned by senior White living house group that the alternative were taken to dispense with the Taliban 'under a carpet of bombs'. Bush's head of counterterrorism Richard Clarke pronounced that he & CIA chief George guiding principle spent maximum of 2001 attempting to get the Bush administration to take heed to their warnings, that a severe terrorist attack grew to become into forthcoming, and could contain using hijacked airplane. They have been ultimately informed by Condi Rice that the president did no longer desire to pay attention any further approximately terrorist assaults, and that no further point out of them ought to be made at destiny conferences.

Answer 7

Cheney had secret meetings with energy task force, with maps of Iraqi oil fields spread all over the conference tables, in MARCH, 2001.

The plan to invade Iraq was a done deal, way before 9/11.

Answer 8

After 9-11 Pres. Bush put out a verbal warning against all countries that supported or harbored terrorists.

Answer 9

Because their leaders/masters in the administration, and other neo cons like Guilliani and FOX viewers (does anyone even watch that anymore?) keep hinting towards it's saying..."since 9 11...blah blah blah"

They don't realize that a lil old document called
"Rebuilding America's Defenses" (google it & print it out)
was pinned and distributed to top brass months before it happened, stressing that they needed to make the "next one look real"
But most people still buy the OFFICIAL Gov't story to all this anyway so why bother trying to convince them that it's all A LIE and 9 11 was an INSIDE JOB!

Answer 10

hi,
the war at one time had it need and a true meaning behind it but some where in all of this,some where in the political may ham bush and his people got off track. he became a bully not a bully to the ones who started the war but to the people of his own nation,he lost track of what he was trying to do. and in doing so he has become as stubborn and a bull at a rodeo and can not see that he has gotten in the middle of a civil war between the people over there and that was not what we went over there for, Bin-laden was the target him and his partners in the crime of 911. read up on the war this question has been asked several times

Answer 11

Because of the idiot thats in the whitehouse and his neo con buddies, the iraq invasion was planned before 9/11 everything was pre-planned