How many lives would have been saved if it weren't for the illegal invasion of Iraq?

Question

and how much safer would Americans (and the world) be if Bush & Cheney would have invested all this wasted war money into protecting the Security and Boarders of the U.S. and investing in high technology to monitor Terrorism World Wide?

Oh...and if you want to argue that the invasion of Iraq was not illegal then read this...

The United Nations charter has a provision which was agreed to by the United States formulated by the United States in fact, after World War II. It says that from now on, no nation can use armed force without the permission of the U.N. Security Council. They can use force in connection with self-defense, but a country can't use force in anticipation of self-defense. Regarding Iraq, the last Security Council resolution essentially said, “Look, send the weapons inspectors out to Iraq, have them come back and tell us what they've found -- then we'll figure it out from there.” The U.S. was impatient, and decided to invade Iraq -- which was all pre-arranged of course. So, the United States went to war, in violation of the charter. Making the war in Iraq an “illegal” war. Whether congress agreed to it or not.

Answer 1

To the people who says that this war is a war on terror take a look at this.

Osama Bin Ladin attacked us and he is still on the loose.

Osama Bin Ladin was the one sending Anthrax to people in the U.S and he is still on the loose

Saddam Hussein didn't even touch us and yet we went after him

When we finally invaded Iraq we found no weapons of mass destruction

Troops and Iraqi civilians are dying constantly and we have no plan in how to improve.

What has this war accomplished? nothing. And if you say that we have finally killed Saddam Hussein, I think we have done more damage than Saddam has done to the people of Iraq such as leaving Iraq with bleak and hard future.

Oh yeah "windscrymary" this person is as American as you and me. She is expressing her freedom of speech and I think she is more American than you.

And change your profile name too, your ruining the name of a great song.

Answer 2

it particularly is a greater complicated question than in undemanding terms a definite or a No. considering the fact that we are in this we've created a rustic that if we in basic terms packed up and left may well be particularly rolled over with the aid of the two a terrorist regime which includes Al Qaeda or perhaps Iran. the capability vacuum left in our wake if we left may well be consumer-friendly to fill with the aid of somebody like this, yet it somewhat is not what we necessary while the U.S. went interior the 1st place and can desire to in all hazard carry approximately greater difficulty for us interior the destiny. Sooo can we pull out and hazard that or stay in and hazard the lives of our infantrymen...it somewhat is a demanding question. If the terrorists have been smart they might end blowing up the geographical area and killing American troops, the greater good it is going to become over there the greater prepared the Bush regime may well be to withdraw the troops...in spite of the indisputable fact that it form of feels that they don't care, they only % human beings to die and are prepared to explode Iraqis as properly to do it. it somewhat is a multitude and that i'm not sure how this might artwork out. so a ways as a Draft, not sure how that would help issues the two, throwing greater troops over there won't accomplish a lot.

Answer 3

You're right.

No matter how many Security Council Resolutions Saddamn was ignoring, the UN Charter holds that member states may not take unilateral military action to enforce previous resolutions, but that all such actions must be specifically authorized by the Security Council.

All of the people answering that we had to invade Iraq because we had just been attacked (by someone else) kind of make me fear for the future of our country, though.....

Answer 4

There were more than enough systems in place in 1991 to have prevented 911. Even the military exercise would have had no effect in reducing the anti terrorist capabilities that already existed. No amount of money will defend against terrorism, when it's an inside job. I don't know why I answer these questions, it appears that no amount of protestations by anybody will convince the US population that they are being misled and lied to by their media. Bush and Cheney are evil. Bush has used manipulation, deceit and cheating to get into power. It is apparent to the rest of the world that American democracy doesn't work. Why don't you all do something?

Answer 5

I didn't favor the invasion in Iraq at the beginning. This war is illegal and it could've been avoided if we had waited for the outcome. I didn't serve in either Iraq or Afghanistan because I'm studying abroad (I was in high school when the Iraq War started) and had to deal with my mother's sickness (lots of shrink time for me). I cried that day in February and asked what was going to happen. Now that we've been stuck in there, I think we need to stay until the end. I support the troops 100% but don't support the war. I wish our troops the best of luck in having Iraqis finally control the situation. I also agree with you on the fact that we need to get our border secure because we'll never know if an attack come from the Southern border. I hope we can finally find Bin Laden the thug and give him what he deserves. We need to make the U.S. the safe place it once used to be and have our people re-gain their freedoms. Thanks!

Answer 6

I'll agree with you on the issue of US border protection but i gotta disagree with you on waiting for the approval of the UN. The UN is a failed organization, look at the quagmire in the dafur region, look at how they handled the somalia incident. It's one thing to monitor terrorism but its another thing to keep the bad guys in their own damn yard. Along with every other decent american i can't wait til this war is over but we have to finish what we started.

Answer 7

People on Welfare, food stamps etc... that are not working and never will, do not pay taxes. this is the same question and complaining you get from people, who probably never paid over 500.00 in taxes in their whole life, yet scream how much is spent on a war that is keeping them in freedom of speech, welfare, food stamps etc... Unless you been to Iraq as a military person, you really do not know. I have been there TWICE, and my orders , will be here very soon. I will be going back and proud to serve, even if it means having to protect the ones who put us all down. When you put down the President, you put us down too.

Answer 8

Security of our boarders? Like the wallpaper in the white house? Since you didn't specify what kind of lives, the answer is hard to be sure of, Saddam is believed to have been responsible for around 2 million innocent people's deaths during his reign, the number of dead from our war doesn't even scratch that number.

As for your UN nonsense... Do you really think that our country should be getting the approval of other people to do what it thinks is neccesary? You think after 9/11 and our innocent citizens senseless slaughter that we should have to go ask a bunch of other nations, who didn't get terrorized, if it's okay to strike back? You are ignorant.

Answer 9

For the final time:

We are not interested in protecting our "boarders." The whole point is that we want to extricate the illegal boarders.

We are, however, very interested in protecting our borders.

Please see my previous question about inane political arguments complimented by inane typos.

Next question.

Edit: Almost forgot to mention that Dekardkain, in essence, just eloquently urinated all over your lack of points. Amazing. Someone else who can actually think AND spell on Yahoo! Answers.

Answer 10

Don't start quoting UN regulations, because it just hurts your argument. If UN regulations are so important to you, then why are you ignoring Saddam's numerous and flagrant violations of the Gulf War Ceasefire? You know, the whole reason that the UN signed more than 17 resolutions condemning him ?

The fact is that Saddam, by violating the terms of the Gulf War Ceasefire, reopened a state of active conflict with ALL of the nations party to that treaty. Let me make this as simple as I can: Under International Law, we weren't even required to declare war on Iraq, because by ignoring the terms of the Ceasefire, Saddam effectively declared war on US. The only thing illegal about the Iraq War were Saddam's actions leading up to it.