Does any one know why our idiot president put us in Iraq....or Iran....or wherever we are?

Question

I'm a kid who no one tells anything! I want answers.

Answer 1

So that idiotic people still have the right to ask and speak silly and idiotic things...and do it freely without the fear of losing their head.

The freedoms we enjoy...such as speaking our minds openly aren't FREE. The cost was huge and even bigger to maintain.

My question to you...Do you think that previously you would have ever had the freedom in Iraq to call your president an idiot? And if you did...do you believe you would have lost your head?

Answer 2

Hallie you need to learn respect. If you don't know anything, no one is just going to tell you anything. Go to the library, read a book, get some education. Insulting the President of the United States just makes you look like a retard. Instead of wasting your summer vacation getting fat typing IM messages and doing Yahoo Answers go sign up for summer school and take several history classes to help educate yourself. Do you think college educated people just sit in front of the TV all day waiting for someone else to teach them the things they know? Get out a learn something other than what is on the TV and what your parents teach you. Get your own points of view on things so you can have an educated opinion on anythng. Right now you are miles from making any comments like the one you made here.

Answer 3

"Idiot" is a childish term used to dismiss someone or something without countering them with substance. You may not like what Bush is doing, but it's no reason to call him an idiot.

The short answer to your question is: We are in th Middle East to promote America's interests. Now, people may disagree what those interests are, or what is the best way to promote them, or how they should be prioritized, or whether it's fair/moral/whatever for a country like the US to act solely for its own welfare. It's all well and good to disagree about these things, but realize that simply calling the side you don't like an "idiot" forecloses any meaningful debate.

Are we in the Middle East for the sake of the oil? Probably, but is that necessarily bad? After all, we want the oil. I work in New York City, and I can testify to the fact that the wealthy we-support-our-stupid--hick-troops uberliberal Manhattanites love their SUV's, their boats and their private jets just as much as Texas tycoons and the bridge-and-tunnel crowd. Apart from the luxuries, oil is needed to operate essential services. Do we really want a psychotic dictatorship or a fundie oligarchy to hold us hostage with their oil?

There also may be larger implications here. We are making inroads into the traditional spheres of influence of Russia and China, with whom we have a fundamentally adversarial, even if not actively hostile, relationship. Russia and China do not send suicide bombers going around, but that is no reason to discount their potential for bringing the US to its knees.

Finally, we are wherever we are because ... well, because if don't go in there, someone else will. Think about it.

If you want a scholarly view of the philosophy of international relations and statehood, unclouded by current politics, I strongly recommend you read the works of Niccolo Machiavelli. (And, please, don't listen to facile and ridiculous interpretations of Machiavelli from people who never read anything he wrote. Machiavelli never said "The ends justify the means.") Approach these works with an open mind. Much of what Machiavelli has said still applies today. Politics and warfare are fundamentally a dirty, ugly business. Someone has to do it. Leaders who are widely loved -- and nothing else -- are all either martyrs or fools. Or both. This certainly does not describe Bush, does it?

Answer 4

Well since you are a kid, I am not going to be very hard on you...first of all quit reading the Internet web sites for your information, Secondly, the Daily Show and the Colbert Report are not very good news sources...thirdly, when you have "Idiot President" in the question, it invalidates it....this is something you will not here from Liberals, so here it goes...we had to fight the Terrorists somewhere...we knew it would be to hard to fight them in the mountains of Afghanistan (The Russians proved that one) so the Military leaders came up with Iraq...we could kill two birds with one stone, get rid of Saddam and give the Jihadist some where to fight us where it is easy to wage war...it wasn't for oil, or Haliburton (This is fact because Haliburton has been the contractor for American deployments since Somalia...and Clinton was President then, but the Liberals won't tell you that...)...it was to fight in a easy place to wage war...we have lost about 3500 soldiers in four years...that is a very good ratio compared to that there have been over 3 million soldiers rotated in and out of Iraq since 03...all this crap is just the Liberals trying to get back the Whitehouse...there were no complaints when we were in Bosnia, Haiti, and Kosovo...that was because Clinton was President...so now you might know a little...but only if you are not brainwashed into believing everything you see on TV or read on the Internet...

Answer 5

Well, Hallie, just because you're a kid and no one tells you anything doesn't mean you can't watch the news, read newspapers, and research the cause and effects of this 'idiot president' and his insane 'war'.
Bush is in Iraq for three 'lame' reasons:
1. The Bush family has had a personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein ever since the days of Desert Storm when George H.W. Bush was criticized, ridiculed and humiliated for 'not finishing the job' and ousting Hussein at that time;
2. Cheney wants all that OIL swimming underneath Iraq's sands so he and his Exxon-Mobil buddies can get richer and richer and richer feeding America's addiction to cheap easily-accessible foreign OIL;
3. Our giant U.S. military-industrial complex needed a new 'war' to boost its sagging profits for companies such as McDonnell-Douglass, Lockheed-Martin and Sikorsky - as well as those two 'newcomer' government contractors: the Carlyle Group and Halliburton, both of whom have direct ties to the Bush-Cheney White House.

Just because you're 'a kid' doesn't mean you have to stay ignorant. I encourage you to learn more about this travesty before you call our President an "idiot" without even knowing where he's put our dedicated troops into harm's way. Once you know a little bit more about this insanity, then you'll be justified in calling our President the 'idiot' he is; good luck on learning all you can about current events, because - believe it or not - it's going to have a dramatic impact on YOUR future! -RKO- 06/22/07

Answer 6

Well, the official reason was that they were developing Weapons of Mass Destruction, but that was a lie.

Many of the Anti-War protesters will tell you it was about oil, and it might be, but not in the way that they think. It's wouldn't have been about stealing oil, there's plenty elsewhere in the world. The real problem is that Iraq was a Muslim nation in which the Sunnis and Shia got along well. In their neighbor, Saudi Arabia, there is a dictatorship that survives solely because the Sunni and Shia people there hate each other too much to turn on their oppressive government. Iraq was a shining example of unity, and if the Saudi people were inspired by it, it could have started a civil war which would have threatened US oil supplies from the Mid-East. That's why it was important to invade Iraq, because they knew it would cause the current sectarian violence.

Or, some people say that Saddam was just getting too powerful, and it was important to get rid of him to prevent the balance of power in the Mid-East from shifting drastically.

For people who really understand the region, these are the only reasonable answers. I hope this helped.

Answer 7

Here's some very good advice for you, kid. Anytime someone has a question that starts with "Why...?", the answer is almost always "Money".

In this case, our government wants to control the price of oil, because there's so many fat bastards getting rich off of us.

Keep in mind that our president is fully controlled. Doesn't matter who he is. He will always be on somebodies leash. He doesn't have the ability to do whatever he wants. He has to do whatever the ones holding the leash want.

Oh and by the way, don't bother with trying to figure out what's going on by reading the newspapers, or watching the news. These people, who used to be about reporting the truth, are now reporting what their bosses/sponsors want to hear. Again, it's all about the money.

The other thing going on is that although Israel is everyones enemy over there, they are still there. They're a tiny country compared to the others, but they're still there. Why they are still there is going to require a bit of un-faith. We (the US) are controlled by the Christians, and the bible says that Israel is God's chosen people, that's why they're still there, and that's why they're not going anywhere. And that's why we support them, and by doing so, we make ourselves the enemy of Israels enemy.

It's all such a big mess, and there's no solution. Except for my brilliant idea, which is to FORCE inter-racial breeding, until the gene pool no longer has any separate "breeds". That will do away with most of the bad blood over there, even tho they're (middle-easterners) trying to kill each other off as fast as possible.

Answer 8

He is not an idiot. You prove your childhood for saying so. If you want to know the reasons that we are dealing with issues in the middle east, read into the history of these nations over the past 30-40 years and the relationship with other countries, including the U.S. This conflict is not new and will continue for quite some time. We are dealing with people that want to convert or kill anybody that does not believe in allah. Before calling our president an idiot, do some research. You will be surprised at how much things make sense once you understand the bigger picture.

Answer 9

Hallie, Yes, I do know and I've explained it several times on here. It amazes me that your liberal parents have filled you with hate, but won't tell you why you hate. Asking questions is an important part of learning to critically examine the doctrines someone else tells you that you should hold dear. Having an OPEN mind to understand the answers is also critical. I don't know if you're willing to accept the truth from those that are/have been there fighting these wars, but the very fact that these men and women believe in it enough to go back to the wars should hold a lot of weight. Soldiers make a lot of sacrifice to protect our country.

It isn't about oil *alone* but we would certainly have problems if the source of oil was held hostage.
It is about what our enemies would do if we weren't at war with them there.
Not everyone in this world is willing to work things out by talking. You've probably seen this in your schoolmates but our enemy is even less tolerant.
Not everyone can protect themselves and it is occasionally up to us to help. The school bully can't beat up everyone. We protect the weak against the bully. Saddam killed tens of thousands of his citizens and tried to kill one of our presidents as well as shooting at our planes for over a decade. The Taliban burns down schools just because girls are allowed to learn. They killed people for wearing the wrong clothes. Saddams sons raped women and literally fed them to the lions.
Al-Qaeda is fighting us in Iraq now. They kill people trying to go to the mosque and others trying to bury their relatives. They kill people because they don't like their beliefs.
Last week our soldiers rescued several orphans that were tied to their beds, starving and having to go to the bathroom beside where they slept.
Everyday, our soldiers protect people who are building schools and hospitals because Al-Qaeda wants to blow up the buildings and kill the workers. Our enemy wants the people to live in misery.
Our enemy cuts peoples heads off or executes them by shooting them in the head. They believe that it's ok to rape the wives of their victims.

And despite what some people will tell you, YES, this IS the same group that killed 3000 Americans on 9/11. And our soldiers continue to risk their lives to decrease the chance that the enemy will do it again.

Do YOU think we should be nice and talk to them? They have no desire to talk.

Answer 10

If you're a kid who doesn't know anything, and especially since you don't even know where the war is taking place, then you really shouldn't be calling the president an idiot until you know the facts. Just because your parents say something about him doesn't make it true. They are entitled to their opinion. Once you get older you might understand.