because of the sand mules...Bush wanted to finish what his dad could not do...kill Sadam....the rest is just bull...but we all wanted payback six years ago...we all forgot that feeling...America has the shortest memory of any country
2007-08-26 17:14:06
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answer #1
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answered by Anonymous
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I am definitely not a con but I have to say that the violations of UN resolutions is not the reason, if it was then Israel would have been your target in the 70's they have been in violation of UN resolutions since the end of the 6 day war!
But of course no one notices.
By the way George Sr destroyed most of the chemical and biological warfare facilities in Iraq during Desert Storm, after the Kurds got gassed, I believe.
so much for that one.
Americans are so programmed to spit out the propaganda from there political masters that it is suprising that there are some many different answers.
2007-08-27 01:44:29
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answered by Anonymous
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The U.S. is at war with Al Qaeda and a few death squads, but the fighting is dieing down as the Iraqis take more responsibility.
Statistically it's not much of a war. Traffic accidents kill more Iraqis than the violence. Egypt has the same electrical outages as Iraq. According to the CIA factbook, the Iraqi geath rate per 1,000 is half that of Germany and Italy. More people are fleeing Iran and Saudia Arabia than Iraq. Iraq even is taking in refugees from Iran and also Palestinians.
2007-08-27 00:30:05
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answered by gregory_dittman 7
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To build a good relationship with, and bring democracy to, a country who was previously an enemy ruled by a vicious and brutal dictator.
We, and several other countries, received reports that Saddam was either in possession of or had aspirations of obtaining weapons of mass destruction. So, rather than sitting on our thumbs and waiting to be attacked (just like in the Clinton Administration), we decided to take a more pro active stance in the war on terror.
No, it's not for oil. Gas is still $3 a gallon.
2007-08-27 00:15:44
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answered by Carl M 2
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sanctions were placed by the U..N. on Iraq when Saddam decide to invade his neighbor we call that the Gulf War, Saddam also broke 17 U.N Laws for 17 years, and not using profits from oil to feed his people. Get your facts straight, and Clinton bombed him in 98 during operation desert fox with the same intell Bush had WHEN WE WENT TO WAR
I am taking about a civilzed society were you don't have to worry about that the leader of your Country is gonna MUSTARD gass you like Saddam did, Also a civilzed leader who doesn't kill you if you speak out against the GOV, think about it pot head, your on here everyday spitting Anti-Bush, Anti-U.S. crap on this site all day long, now I ask you, if you were an Iraq under Saddam rule would you be able to do that, NO you would be dead. Also Saddam straved his people, bruttally murdered them. I got more examples if you need them.
Now, During Clintons presidency Saddam was in Violation of 17 U.N. Mandated laws, Saddam did have Mustard gas which is WMD, he used it on his own people, Bill Clinton when we went to war stated that he was pretty sure Saddam had WMD. Also Congress read the same intell reports by U.N. weapon inspectors and military intell Bush did to go to war with Saddam.
Now if the terrorists drive us out and win and gain a whole country like they had in Afgan do you think there gonna treat the people of Iraq kindly, or rule with fear, and kill those who oppose them, just like the taliban did in Afagan,
Trust me, it would be a nightmare, it take from someone who has been there, if we just cut and ran right now, it would empower our enemies, bring instability to an already volatile region and Iran and Osama, would have another to use as Training centers, for terrorists, and a safe haven. Then when they go back on the offensive and bring the fight back on U.S. Soil, the left wing nuts will blame Bush for leaving early. Bush is in a no-win-situation
EDIT, I give facts sweetie that you fail to see, from someone that has been to the AOR
2007-08-27 00:20:55
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answered by dez604 5
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We invaded and we're trying to help rebuild the country.
For conservatives, it's cleaning up after ousting a bad dictator.
For liberals, it's fixing our mistake.
We can't pull up our stakes and leave. But we also can't stay. Really, the US needs to fix what it broke, and in order to do that, we need to stay.
2007-08-27 00:17:32
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answered by K 5
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Because Hillary and John Edwards voted for us to go to war back in 2002.
2007-08-27 00:11:57
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answered by JD 4
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I'm not going to report john b's answer because I laughed out loud when I read it.
The trolls are what makes YA so much fun...
2007-08-27 00:16:09
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answered by Anonymous
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Snowflakes...a good analogy, but snowflakes are too innocent. How about acid rain drops?
2007-08-27 00:41:17
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answered by Giliathriel 4
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To keep our country safe. If you know anything about Applied Intelligence - a gov't study - you'd know that terrorists hate it when we are being strong and fighting back. They didn't like it when we fought back after 9/11. Bush was smart enough to stop giving warnings and actually ACT. We've intercepted a ton of messages.
2007-08-27 00:12:51
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answered by Twiggy 2
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