Why did Bush say this back in Feb 2003?

Question

1. Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
2. Iraq is a threat to the United States.
3. a.) Iraq has ties to 9/11
b.) Since the above didn't fly - Iraq has 9/11 like terrorists
4. We will be greeted as liberators.
5. The war will pay for itself with oil.
6. Mission Accomplished
7. The war will be relatively quick and easy.
8. I will fire anybody I find out had ties to leaking information about a CIA operative.
9. You're doing a hell of a job Brownie
10. We should not be in the business of nation building.

Answer 1

I suppose the simple answer is that he is a liar, or he was honestly delusional. All the various falsities propounded by Bush and his ilk was completely self-serving; and those with self-serving aims, that are profit oriented, almost always resort to mendacity. I think most people, who are not so seduced by Republican propaganda, came to the sad realization that our Commander and Chief, his cabinet, and most of Congress, purposely mislead the American people.

Of course one could dig deeper into your question, and ask something more indicting of the American people. The question that I would ask was why did Bush think he could lie to the American public in the first place? The answer to this is, lamentably, he and his cohorts knew that the American people where a credulous lot, whose common sense is much weaker than their emotive need to lash out in revenge. Irrational rage, combined with a pervasive inability, among the American public, to analyze current events in light of history, due to their paltry education in history, made the American people easy targets for blatantly false assertions about the state of affairs in the world, and about the nature of our “War on Terror”. The Americans bought into not only the lies you enumerated above, but also the ludicrous notion that all Arabic cultures can be conflated into a homogenous and monolithic group that can be dealt with in the same way. They also gullibly accepted that a strategy against terror should involve large-scale military deployment, as if the fight against terrorism can be fought using conventional militaristic means.

You don’t have to be a scholar in world history to know that both of those propositions are idiotic. Even a passing familiarity with history could lead people to see how utterly asinine such assumptions are. Of course the U.S. electorate doesn’t even have, in my estimation, that requisite passing familiarity with history. They are too absorbed with themselves and with their own illusions of patriotism, and the greatness of America, to ever learn anything about the outside world and how it works.

So yes Bush lied, and his sin for misleading the American people, he was sworn to protect, is well noted. What is often overlooked is that this lie could have only taken place, and resulted in such great global tragedies, as a result of American credulity and narcissism.

Answer 2

!. Stuart Cohen of the CIA stated unequivocally in the National Intelligence Estimate report that Iraq had WMD's, and many people on both sides of the aisle believed it.

2. Iraq was a serious and active threat to Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, all U.S. allies in the middle east.

3. Pretty clearly, Sunni radicals from Saudi Arabia had ties to 9/11 and probably financed it.

Answer 3

1. Iraq had weapons well documented and according to Gen. Sada were moved to Syria.
2. Saddam funded many terrorist groups . so yes Iraq was a threat.
3. Iraq was helped Al quidia
4. we were greeted as liberators
6. look up the mission. to destroy the government of Saddam which we did.
7. we won the war very quickly and very easily. but please document any time in history when an army has been defeated and people from other countries come into the country to continue the fight. just one please. the Iraq army has been defeated and disbanned.
8 well Richard Armitage has left the government.

Answer 4

Jim Beam?
Johnnie Walker?
Jack Daniels?
Old Grand Dad?

Answer 5

You know, I don't like his policies, his methodology is asinine and just like every politician before him he makes comments that will inevitably come back to haunt him. For example, does "I did not have sexual relations with that woman" ring a bell?

Fact is, I can do just what you did with every president in history. What you need to do is to get a life and stop obsessing over one individual.

As for your obsessed hatred for our conflict in Iraq, I'll say it again.

WE made the decision to go in. WE destroyed their infrastructure. WE dismantled their government. WE disbanded their Army.

WE are responsible for helping them back on their feet.

It's sad people like you would rather see these people be cleansed by some warlord or terrorist than help them. SAD

Answer 6

Exactly. I think you are asking for too much in wanting an answer however. Are you under the misunderstanding that we live in a democracy?

Answer 7

Evidently, Bush dosnt care about lying to the american people.

Answer 8

Mainly because bush lies...alot.