How many of you were against the Iraq invasion before it began?

Question

I know I was!

Anyone else?

Seriously not one person in Bush's staff thought about the Shiites and the Sunnis fighting for dominance in a country that was waiting for the Baath party to wane?
I really think there was no understanding of how the region of the world operates!!
IMO!

Answer 1

No, based on what we were told, I was not.

Answer 2

I was out protesting at a protest March a few days before the bombing started - Only few hundred people showed up in my generally liberal town with a population of about 50,000.

It should have been obvious to anybody who knows anything about the area that suddenly kicking the Sunnis out of power and putting the generally pro Iran Shiites in charge was going to result in a horrible mess. (In a democracy, the Shiites would have to be in power - because they are in the majority).

Certainly the president's father, George H.W. Bush, understood this, which is why he limited the goals of the first Gulf war to kicking Saddam out of Kuwait.

Moreover, as Richard Clarke has pointed out, whether Saddam had some chemical or biological weapons was not the real issue- The real issue was whether Saddam was a serious and immediate threat to the U.S, so as to justify the U.S. starting a war.. - As a secular dictator, Saddam was an enemy of Al Queda. - Plus there were inspectors in place who had found nothing of significance and could have kept searching if we had not started a war.

Answer 3

Yes, very upsetting and was absolutely against it before and still am now. We live in an evil world. What did the poor ordinary living Iraqis ever do to deserve this. There is also the issue of depleted uranium and the devastating effects of this plus all those other crazy banned WMD that has evidently been used on the Iraqis yet they condemned Iraq for having them but yet they clearly did not. Hypocrisy or what.

Answer 4

I was initially unsure, I listened as they talked about his connection to the Nazi party, how some of the surrounding countreis had asked for US intervention because of how Saadaam was destabilizing the area, how he was treating the different groups in his country (not only sunni,and shia, but also Kurds)How is sons were allowed to rape the women and torture their soccer team for losing a game. And he refused to allow people to come in to prove he didn't have these weapons. It all added up to a sick man and a sick regime. By the way I am impressed by your psychic ability to know what people over a thousand miles away were not thinking about.

Answer 5

Youre absolutely correct.

Bush and none of the people who worked for him knew anything about the area or its culture

Because a little bit of history would have shown them that Saddams presence was actually a uniting force for those people.

And if it wasnt for Saddams threatening presence, the Iraqis would have slaughtered each other.

With Saddam gone, they had no one to stop them. And the US no matter what it does would never be as cruel and unforgiving as Saddam was. So the only thing that kept them in place: their fear of Saddam, was diminished the minute he was taken down.

They should have seen this coming.

The people who lived around Iraq knew this was coming.

Answer 6

I felt sick when I heard we attacked them. I knew there was no way Saddam Hussein was harboring terrorists. He jealously guarded his power and would never share that with anyone. I had heard his country was poor with the sanctions. I knew that Iraq was cheating on the oil program but is that a reason to attack them? Bush didn't even let them finish looking for WMD. I was extremely suspicious of the Bush administration ever since he attacked Iraq. In fact, I was suspicious from the minute he gave his "bring it on" speech.

Answer 7

Big time I wasagainst invasion, I knew it would become what it has become, and it won't get any better either, I voted for Bush the first time, not the second. I feel sorry for the countries that supported us, and got dragged into the big mess. I feel sad for all the US military that have paid such a heavy price for what Bush did. and I also feel sad for all the Iraqys that have died and have had their lives so destroyed. There were no WMDs, and there were no Iraqys involved with 9/11.

Answer 8

Me. I knew exactly what the result would be...hell I got hives when Bush was sworn in after the Supreme Court election of 2000. Then when I saw his staff (all the nutballs from the Bush I and Raygun administrations) I knew the war would be on sooner or later.

Answer 9

I was, to be honest I thought it was going to be worse than it is now. I thought Saddam had chemical weapons and he would use them, killing thousands of Iraqis and halting the US advance or even starting a regional conflict. I was on board for a couple weeks during the "mission accomplished" phase, I thought it might have worked. But by January 2004 I realized this was not winnable.

Answer 10

me, never supported it by any stretch of the imagination,

from when the 9/11 buildings went down in a pro demolition job to when bush was making crap up to go into afghanistan, to the flagrant lies he told the country constantly:

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/07/bush.transcript/

if you were for this war, and continue to support it the blood is on YOUR hands

*edit* ariel, your post is fiction at it's best. that said, i've got some property just south of baghdad really cheap, and you seem like a smart buyer

Answer 11

All of the people, here, who say they were against the war before it began, have little to brag about, because the intelligence agencies throughout the world were sure that Iraq had WMDs and would eventually use them.
These people are only demonstrating that their main interest is to pretend to be smarter than our leaders. Those same old Monday morning quarterbacks. Why don't they dry up? Nobody believes them in the first place.---Damn blow-hards.

FRANKLIN---Who ever said they wanted to kick the Sunnis out and put the Shia in? Are you rewriting history? They wanted to set up a demo. gov.---as they have done.

Perry L---Bet you peed a little when you thought there might be a war.---Didn't you Dovey?