Someone remind me: Why are we in Iraq?

Question

WMD's? Where are they?
Was there a pre-9/11 conection with organized terror?
Maybe Bush decided to have our brave men fight plain clothed insurgents in an urban setting in the freaking Middle East for some other reason?
Why, exactly, are we in Iraq? Why, exactly, was the invasion of Iraq so important? Can we trust a President who lies and lies and lies?

Answer 1

I wrote this to a letter to myself to give me peace of mind of why we are there. I publish it every chance I get. This is my conspiracy theory and I love it.

Its NOT about stealing oil…about keeping oil from hitting the open market. The question you have to ask…is what is different about Saddam during the first and second US war in Iraq. Simple, not following OPEC’s demands.

In the first few lesson of a basic economics course, they cover Monopolies and Cartels. Cartels, a group of suppliers, such as OPEC, corner markets by artificially controlling and restraining the supply of any item in demand, such as oil, to drive up prices and profitability. Typically under a free market system, Cartels typically fail due to the cheating element when one member secretly cheating against the group by selling under the table. It only takes one major supplier to cheat to break the Cartel. When this discipline fails with the Cartels, the whole thing falls to the free market system where prices match a natural level of supply and demand.

With that in mind…take a look at Iraq before George W. Bush. A 10 year war with Iran and complete devastating loss to the Americans in Desert Storm has beaten Saddam down. Broke and barely hanging on to power Saddam is bribing every sympathetic UN officials during the “Food for Oil” program. He trying to get sanctions lifted so he can make it to the free market because he is desperate need of money to hang on to power. Plus he is now hates personally the King of Saudi Arabia and the Emir of Kuwait and would love to burst their OPEC bubble. If Saddam makes it to the free market with his oil, he makes a bunch of money and he hurts his rivals, the Kings of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

To preserve OPEC, The King of Saudi Arabia tells George W. Bush that Saddam must go. Bush and the Arabian Kings trumped up charges of WMDs against Saddam along with some other bad stuff, which were probably true. Americans are so mad after 9-11 they don’t care who gets their Azzes kicked. Saddam is removed to preserve the OPEC oil cartel not save us from Saddam blowing us up. No WMDs were found.

Proof is simple. After five years of Saddam’s removal, No Iraqi oil is hitting the world market. The Iraqis are buying oil from the Saudis/Kuwaitis to keep their daily lives going. Americans are paying for the rebuilding of Iraq.

Now if my theory is correct. Who LOST? Bush has spent billions getting close to a trillion of US assets to preserve OPEC. We have lost 3000 or so troops during this process. At home, the US consumers got robbed at the pump and the domestic economy had got strangled due to the high cost of energy. Who WON? All friends of Bush: OPEC Members, Texas Oil Business People, and Military Contractors.

Don’t believe me ask any college economics professor if what I’m saying is plausible. If I’m right, maybe conservatives should start questioning their country’s leadership about their motives. If this is true we all have been cheated, liberals and conservatives alike.

Answer 2

Members of the current Bush administration, who have never personally been to war, believe that Americas failings in Vietnam were to do with lack of political will.

They also believe that international organisations like the UN have too many rules and compromises and are causing a whole range of problems which could be sorted out by just shooting the bad guys.

They wanted to put this to the test and their favourite bad guy was Saddam. So they manufactured evidence, manufactured consent and went to war.

Unfortunately what we see is a failure to deal with the reality of a situation. This is the same "corporate leadership" attitudue that destroyed companies like Enron and World.com and now it may destroy the US as well.

You can push your will against reality and this is what happenned in Iraq.

You don't get what you want through war. The war of 1812 forced US citizens living in Canada to fight against the US when the US invaded Canada (any country beaten by Canada in a war should not try invading any other country). The American civil war resulted in a only a token end to slavery while in the other slave owning countries of Americas their peaceful end to slavery resulted in a higher level of equality than the southern states in the US.

Should the coalition of the whatever stay. Of course, they made the problem, they must pay the price to fix the problem. But the decision for staying or leaving should be in the hands of the current democratically elected Iraqi government.

Nothing is good or bad, it is what we make of it.

Answer 3

Because Iraq has alot of oil more than any country in the world , everything now depends on the oil and becuase the United States economic is kind of bad the Unites States invaded Iraq.

Answer 4

I AM SURE THAT MOST OF DO NOT KNOW WHY WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE EAST AT THIS TIME. IT ALL JUST BECAME A RUN AWAY TRAIN OF LIES. ONE THING FOR IS FOR SURE, WE SHOULD ALL LURN TO READ THE LIPS OF ANY BUSH AND KNOW WHAT EVER THEY SAY IS NOT TRUE. I AM A MOTHER OF 5 WHO'S HUSBAND IS IN IRAQ AND OUR 19 YEAR OLD SON WILL BE THERE SOON. I AM NOT HAPPY ABOUT THE WAR, BUT I KNOW THAT NOW THAT WE ARE THERE WE HAVE TO FINISH. WE TOOK THE ONLY WAY OF LIFE THESE PEOPLE KNEW AND BLEW IT TO HELL. IT MAY HAVE NOT BEEN MUCH OF A LIFE, BUT NOW THEY ARE LOST. WE HAVE TO TRY TO HELP THESE PEOPLE FIND A NEW WORLD, AND WHERE THEY BELONG IN IT. I HERE SO MANY HEART BREAKING THING THAT ARE HAPPENING TO THESE PEOPLE. I HERE ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH EVERY TIME I TALK TO MY HUSBAND. EVERY TARRIEST GROUP IN THE WORLD WANTS IRAQ, AND THOSE PEOPLE NEED US TODO OUR JOB AND HELP THEM REBUILD THERE LIVES. OUR TROOPS NEED US TOBE UNITED AND GIVE THEM 100% OF OUR SUPPORT AND FOR US TO STOP FIGHTING HERE ABOUT IRAQ AND SHOW THE WORLD THAT SOME OF US MAY HAVE STARTED THIS THING FOR THE WRONG RESONS, BUT WE ARE ALL WILLING TODO WHAT EVER IT TAKES TO FIX IT.

Answer 5

Jeez come on.

Saddam Hussein was in violation of 17 UN resolutions and he was a dictator in the middle east that had a history of using WMD and paying the families of suicide terrorists.

In a post 9/11 world, we could not tolorate that. PERIOD.

THAT is why we went in. Why we are still there is that in a post Saddam Iraq, it is in our National security interests to make sure that a democracy obtains enough strength and stability to sustain itself after we leave.

Jeez, it's like I'm in here with a bunch of little kids.

Answer 6

The US is in Iraq solely for the purposes of using it as a springboard to attack Iran.

Israel is right now flying training missions (air sorties) to Malta from home soil. Interestingly enough this is approximately the same distance, Israel to Iran's nuclear
targets.

It is also why the US currently has not one, but 2, Aircraft carrier battle groups in the immediate area.

We are being duped into a total mid east war, with far reaching consequences, including attacks most likely on North American targets by Iran, Syria, and their buddy North Korea.

We tend to believe that we are invinciable, but look at the issues, and a clear path emerge's from the BS.

Agent

Answer 7

To create a Democratic Country in the midst of Islam and thereby be a shining light to the surrounding countries who will see how wonderful their women will look in Designer Jeans and
all kinds of piercings in their ears, noses, and belly buttons.

Answer 8

Because we are supporting the UN Multinational Force in Iraq.

You remember,

UN Security Council resolution 1546 (2004)

extended by

UN Security Council resolution 1637 (2005).

and extended again by

UN Security Council resolution 1723 (2006).

Answer 9

nomatter what i say im going to get a thumbs down. but we are pretty much trying to protect the government we set up for them. why we went there i have no idea because i dont believe that WMD crap. we didnt even finish looking for it and we went in anyway

Answer 10

A movie!! (I'm going off on a bit of a tangent here) The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly not sure who's in what roll yet :P