Can you please help me clear some things up?

Question

I'm not trying to stir up trouble or anything, I'm just confused.

-Why are we at war right now?
-If we got attacked by Bin Laden, then why did we retaliate against Saddam?
-When we found out there were no WMD's, why didn't we pull out of Iraq? (Or did we find that out after capturing Saddam?)
-Why aren't we concerned about Bin Laden?
-Why does everyone hate Canada all of a sudden (or at least it seems like that to me)

I'm just confused. It seems like I'm trying to prove something, but really I just don't know.

Thanks and please cite your scources!

Answer 1

It is impossible to cite sources about intimate political schemings. Hell, there's no proof that Israel has nuclear weapons, but very few people would deny they have them. I have thought about it as thou roughly as you really can without some kind of insider info. We didn't go for oil, since rebuilding the oil industry in a war is extremely expensive and problematic. So it wasn't oil. It wasn't Al-queda, that was just the CIA and one lying informant that made that up. I don't think even W is stupid enough to build the war on the word of a single unproven source. So it wasn't the war on terror. It wasn't concerns over the human rights violations in Iraq because they had been going on for so long and barely even made the news in the US. (Until we decided to attack them that is) So that wasn't it. The only thing I can come up with is that W wanted to finish the job that daddy started and insure a democratic prosperous middle east. With Iraq as its shining example. 3500 Americans and countless thousands of Iraqis for that. It's too bad that blind loyalty is a quality ingrained and encouraged in militaries. Otherwise the soldiers might just refuse to fight when given truly insipid orders by political leaders.

Answer 2

We're at war now because people leading us made some big mistakes and we let them because humans have a hard time not wanting retaliation against someone. Saddam was no great guy, but he became our scapegoat for something his country had little or nothing to do with.

We already made a mess of things and couldn't pull out ... but frankly WMDs were just an excuse to encourage us to support an occupation for the sake of oil ... something that had been planned and desired years ago. Years ago, in 1998, I read a linguistics article about how cleverly the first Bush used rhetoric and language to help us scapegoat Saddam for our own purposes.
We dropped him as a scapegoat as soon as the administration didn't need our 'hate' anymore.

All the second Bush had to do was pick up on where his father left off rhetorically. It was easy to inspire hate for Saddam so that we could justify getting in there. We're allowing ourselves to be manipulated by carefully chosen words that inspire particular kinds of emotions. Allowing these tactics makes us even more vulnerable to terrorists who increase in numbers because of the results of these kinds of attitudes.

We create what we fear because of how our fear causes us to act and react.

Bin Laden is a mystery, but it is very odd that his family is so close to the Bush family and that his family was allowed to leave the country after 911 when no one else could. It's all too suspicious for me to stomach.

I don't know who hates Canada, but ...

Answer 3

I do not have a source but I will say that the media has undermined everything that is being done. And because of those that are financially supporting the media with ties that should put America to shame it isn't going to change. We are at war because we are fighting terrorists. Whatever we started out with it is now a war on terror. Forget the WMD's, it's done and over. We have to concintrate on now. As for Bin Laden I heard one theory that he is so deep inside the Al Quida that if anyone were to get that close to him there would be an all out attack. I don't hate Canada. I think that is because they won't help in this fight and they are right on our border. Not cool.

Answer 4

Why are we at war, answered in question two.

It is a war on terror, not a war on one man, last I saw, many Iraqis lived in terror.

Would be nice to just up and leave Iraq, but if we did, then that country will basically fall to everyone.

We are concerned about bin Laden, just that we "cannot" go into the country he is believed to be at.

I do not hate Canada, I hate France!

Answer 5

I know this is a stretch but here goes.
do you remember a day in september , the 11?
2001 ?
does this mean not one thing to you ?
are are you so [politically blinded by
bush derangment syndrome
you cant see the truth?
all your repeating is the sameold talking points

Answer 6

We are at war in Afghanistan because of 911.
We are in Iraq because of Saddam. (read up on his invasion of Kuwait).
We are concerned about Bin Laden and the search is still on, but if you know what we are doing then so does he. See why that's kept under wraps?
Who hates Canada? Nobody hates Canada.
We are in two wars, not one.

Answer 7

"I'm just confused. It seems like I'm trying to prove something, but really I just don't know."

I found the answer in your question! it's a lib thing.

Answer 8

We're at war because Bush failed to read a memo that said an attack was imminent.

We attacked Iraq because well... because Bush is an idiot, really, that's why.

Answer 9

I've answered this question at least 50 times. Please just check over my past answers for your reason.

Answer 10

ck4829 read your answer and then tell us who's the real idiot?