What was the #1 reason for taking over Iraq? The real reason?

Answer 1

Bush's real reason (as he said before he was elected), was to go down in history books as a great president, which he believed he could be if he were a war president.

Cheney wanted Haliburton to rake in the big bucks.

Rumsfeld wanted permanent bases in the area.

Those are the real reasons.

Edit after reading other answers: The UN inspectors were NOT finding evidence of recent WMD development, they were finding dust and cobwebs.

The "evidence" for the WMD case was fabricated by the Bushies; if they thought it was true, why were they making all that up?

There was no reason to think Iraq was behind 9/11, and lots of reason to think we wasn't (most notably, Bin Laden wants theocracy, Hussein was a secular dictator).

9/12, Bush began haranging his staff to pin 9/11 on Iraq; even though they tried to explain that he'd had nothing to do with it. Bush didn't care, he wanted them to "prove" what everyone knew to be false.

The mass murders Saddam had commited (using stuff WE gave him) had been a decade before our invasion; if we cared, why the wait?

Bush went into office planning to attack Iraq; he saw 9/11 as his chance.

Of course, when I cited Cheney's reason, that doesn't mean I think Dick will get any of that money himself. Oh, no! That was never the idea. Nope, not Honest Dick, former Chief Executive Thief of Haliburton. No WAY!

Answer 2

What does the middle east have that the west wants? Oil? You bet. But more than that someone has to control the flow of oil from the middle east. This is a simple case of following both the money and following which country intends to be top dog in the 21st century. Unfortunately in pursuit of the goal of beingtop dog the Bush Junta went, 'a bridge too far'. Now we're stuck like glue to a failed policy with no natural stopping place. Instead of actually going after a true energy policy the Bushocrats did the bidding of their oil masters and so here we are....screwed, stewed and tattooed. An endless war and 'no' energy policy. Take my advice...don't ever vote for these bums again, they're clueless, incompetent and nutty.

Answer 3

Excellent question, doesn't pretend there is only one reason, doesn't preach. Thank you.

My take? Islam has openly planned and stated their goal of taking over the world. My family escaped Islam in the 1950s. We've been expecting this war for decades.

Islam has mostly used very indirect methods recently (last few centuries) to avoid attention. They get a majority in a country, moving to places that are very unpleasant to them, slowly getting sufficient numbers that they start getting government jobs, then, when they have sufficient power, they end the democratic government, put the nation under Islamic law, and make Islam the only allowable religion.

It's worked wonderfully in S.E. Asia and Africa, not so well in the West (though France and few others are getting close).

It's also a method we could not directly confront them on, because of our values and the fact that they were using democracies against themselves.

When Saddam gave us the necessary reasons to attack and get a serious foothold against Islam, we took it. He attempted to assassinate President Bush (the elder one), attacked one of their neighbors that asked us for aid (Kuwait), openly paid suicide bombers to kill the citizens of one of our allies (Israel).

We don't attack sovereign nations that don't attack us or our allies (hence our hesitation with N. Korea, Iran, etc.).

We've made it impossible for Islam to again continue their take-over of the world without being seen for what it is.

Islam won't LET us retreat. They will continue to throw everything they can if we try. They either have to succeed now, or they'll be watched under a microscope for every move they make in the future.

The world has made public the conflicts Islam is involved in around the world. The revolution has begun. Islam will survive, but it will embrace freedom, and it's dictators will fall.

Answer 4

Part of the reason is it frees up jobs over here. If all the 180,000 young men and women were here, then the unemployment rate would increase by at least 2%.

ok #1 is oil.

Iraq has Earth's second biggest and the largest unexplored oil fields


lol at the iraq resolution=
Whereas the efforts of international weapons inspectors, United States intelligence agencies, and Iraqi defectors led to the discovery that Iraq had large stockpiles of chemical weapons and a large scale biological weapons program, and that Iraq had an advanced nuclear weapons development program that was much closer to producing a nuclear weapon than intelligence reporting had previously indicated;

Answer 5

I don't know, I'm not in Bush's head but i want to clear up one major misconception being propogated here...Iraq and the middle east does not directly provide to America a lot of oil, that's correct but this ignores the key part of an oil strategy, it's a globally demanded product which if the Middle East pipeline hjas issues, our prices is going to go up regardless of if we get it from Canada or Iran, it's the nature of the beast, so stop being disengenious and saying we didn't need their oil because we get it other places because it's bunk.

Answer 6

In order to spread the ideology of classical liberalism and democracy through the middle east. It by design was intended to create a prosperous, free, democratic society in the heart of the middle east where these ideals could flourish, and inevitabally push out the ideology of fanatical Islam.

Oh, and it didn't hurt that we had the strongest case for war against Iraq than any other nation in the middle east. They weren't folowing the cease fire agreement they signed to end the 1991 Gulf War (no weapon inspectors, firing SAMS at our fighters patrolling the no fly zone), Saddam abused his people, gassed the Kurds, ran consentration camps, antagonized his neighbors, thumbed his nose at the international community, etc.

AND ONCE AND FOR ALL ABOUT THE WMD ISSUE: EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD THOUGHT HE HAD WMD'S, Clinton thought he had them, Kerry thought he had them, the British thought he had them, the CIA thought he had them, even the French thought he had them... maybe Bush was wrong, but what was the logical conclusion, espically given that Saddam would not let in inspectors to prove that he had no WMDs?!

Answer 7

Oil. Oh wait, the #1 reason for taking over Iraq? Yeah, it's oil.

Answer 8

Establish military bases in a region of the world that contains most of the worlds known oil reserves .
Without this region of the world under our watchful eye the future is more secure .

Answer 9

Bush's political gain?

I mean, obviously there were no WMDs.
There are only splinter groups of al-Qaeda in Iraq, and NONE of bin Laden's crew (despite what we were told).
Saddam's even dead.

Suddenly, I'm starting to wonder what his next excuse will be...?

Answer 10

The really hot women?The great beach front property?
I guess the only real reason is........you don't have to wait 30 days to posses a weapon,or do that silly background test.