Did the Bush Administration made the correct decision in persuading us to support invading Iraq?

Question

3700 of our sons and daughters killed.
25,000wounded...a third of whom have wounds so severe that they will never live the semblence of a normal life.
Over 500 Billion spent on the war.
No successful Iraqi government has been formed.
The original rationale for invading Iraq...WMD's and an inaccurate insinuation that Iraq had something to do with the tragedy of 9-11...was wrong.

Answer 1

Actually 3,911 have come home in body bags. Because some are our allies doesn't make them any less dead or not worth even mentioning!

Bush HAD NO EVIDENCE to attack Iraq. HE THREW the inspectors out! And he LIED, even using documents that he knew were forged!

There was no evidence that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11 or terrorist, EVER!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYI7JXGqd0o

Answer 2

I don't think it was necessarily a mistake to have invaded Iraq however I think the mistake was not knowing what to do once we got there. It's debatable whether Bush lied, he had faulty intelligence or even Hussein's scientists could have been lying. I don't really think Bush had evil intentions with this war, after all...what would he gain? Money? How? Besides, this is his country too and why would he hurt his own country?

A lot of speculation goes into the "what if's" with this war but the bottom line is no one has any FACTS to back it up.

Is this war horrible? Yes.
Should we get out when we can? Yes.
Did Bush lie about his intentions? Doubtful, but then I have no proof....so I don't know.

What I do know is a lot of people were so upset with the Republicans that they voted a bunch of democrats to office in the last elections to change things.

And nothing has changed.

As to the person who says the 2000 Presidential election was not honest? I guess we should have counted and recounted and recounted and recounted and recounted until the Democrats got a number they liked? *rolls eyes*

Answer 3

197% of the people here on Yahoo and in America supported this war.

Now you can only find a few who will admit to that.

I am proud to say I predicted both wars would turn out to be clusterphukes and that the reasons we were going to war turned out to be wrong, even lies.

The problem now, most of those 197% maintain, since we started it, we need to finish it. Which proves, most do not understand nor learn from the past. Vietnam proved we can not win a war that is morally wrong and that we have no business being in. While we are winning every battle, we have not won the hearts and minds of those people and we have lost the hearts and minds of our own people.

It's only a matter of time before we are forced to leave Iraq, by our people and houses of government, and the insurgents that are winning.

It's time to get out and let them sort it out. We only have ourselves to blame for what has happened from the first soldier crossing the border, to what lays in their future.

We screwed the goose. I really wish people would get off this high horse that our $hit doesn't stink.

Peace

Jim

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Answer 4

particular i will answer this, none of those dems would at present admit that George Bush has ever accomplished something that became into precise This under no circumstances differences the actuality that they did certainly state thier help of the president based on the comparable advice that the President had on the time. they are going to argue any way that they think of they are able to to returned out of this now. recover from your ridiculous theory that the liberal left is someway the answer to all our problems, they are in ordinary terms one area of a bad penny suggested as government

Answer 5

Why ask a question you don't want an answer for?

Was it more wrong for the demoncrats to jump on board to go to war, based on Bush, Clinton and the CIA's info, only to have the Demoncrats back out when they thought things were looking bad?

What do the dems do when we WIN the war? Declare that we still lost and that even if we won, was it worth the "cost"?

Thank GOD so many politicians weren't investing in our defeat in WWII. Wow, it must be hell wanting our country to lose another war. Do you get some sick joy out of repeating the deaths?

Why don't we let the soldiers go ahead and win, and keep the politics out? That's a better question.

Answer 6

What about how Saddam gassed the Kurds? How about the fact that he HAD WMD's, he was just smart enough to move them to Syria? We actually gave him the weapons when Iran became our enemy. I do not support the war nor do I support Bush but Saddam had the weapons, used them, and hid them. He also killed at least a million in the Iran-Iraq War plus around 800,000 of his own people. Of course Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 but he did have the WMD's and they didn't just disappear either. Things like building a government takes time. "Rome wasn't built in a day." Do you think Bush could pull a government out of his a*s?

Answer 7

You are also forgetting the 650,000 Iraqis who have died for this adventure for WMD, then democracy.

It has gone horribly wrong. Which is why I never supported the idea of invading in the first place.

Answer 8

when i heard that bush wanted to invade iraq i was worried. i did not believe in the wmd or the 911 link.

i am glad to hear of the millitary progress over there but it still worries me that there is no viable government over there yet.

even if we pasify all of iraq how long will we need stay there to wait for them to get their act together.
and when we leave there will be genoside

Answer 9

How about if you are not with us...you are against us. If you are hiding or aiding terrorists, you are against us. I thought we where after who attacked us. Our government claims BLadin is in Pakistan...they have operations set up along the border with Afghanistan...and we just sit and let it happen, all the time destroying Iraq and spending billions of our tax dollars..(why), how does any of this make sense....What I don't understand is how anyone can follow and believe in what the administration is doing.

Answer 10

I honestly believe that Bush had it in his head from day one as president that he would attack Iraq. Its not because of 9/11. The fact is, President Bush does not care about Americans. Katrina, he did not act promptly. 9/11, He has not found and kiilled Osama bin laden, He refuses to meet with a mother who lost her son in the war. This idiot only thinks of one person, who I don't clasify as a true american, Himself. The bumper sticker really is true, "somewhere in Texas a town is missing its Idiot"