in your opinion, why do u think troops are fighting in iraq?

Question

please give me all the reasons for your opinion

Answer 1

Because they were ordered there by the Commander-In-Chief.

Answer 2

I have no opinions, only facts.

1. Saddam refused to comply with the cease fire after the Gulf War. The agreement included unfettered UN weapon inspectors' access to his facilities. Saddam refused. 17 UN resolutions later, nothing.

2. Bush knew after 9-11, we could not afford to let someone get nukes. He had to act. He stated all of this in his address to the nation.

3. We are there now for different reasons. I understand that if we leave, the whole region will get out of control. Iran will come in and control so much oil that they will try and cripple the US and international economy.

4. We also need to stay because we have not finished the job. We took Saddam out and must stay until the new government can completely take over. That is called character.

5. Also do not forget that all troops are in the military voluntarily. They chose to sign up.

Answer 3

Read this book if you care to know.
The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by John J Mearsheimer and Stephen M Walt. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (August 27, 2007). ISBN-10: 0374177724. Price US$26, 496 pages.

Answer 4

The Downward Spiral gave you the truth. I think there is one more, water. President Bush has stated these purposes. Not at the beginning though. He used 9/11 to accomplish his goals. For those of you that still don't understand. 9/11 has nothing to do with Iraq. They are 2 different issues.

Answer 5

Only one real reason. Money.


1) Oil Reserves.

2) Military Funding.

3) Reconstruction Funding.

Answer 6

because 9-11. i would get so mad if we pull out the troops now. we can't let the terrorists think they won. If we leave the middle east, they are going to come here and bomb our busses and cars just like they do in their country. all that work that the soldiers have done there will be wasted. we are just going to have to send them back. If we pull the troops then all the soldiers that died would have died for nothing. we need to finish what we came there to do in the first place. or the terrorists will think we are not strong.

sorry i just feel very strong about that. :]

Answer 7

I can't do any better than chainsaw. I lived in the middle east 14 years and know how important it is to be there. Forget those who say we're only there for the oil. If the middle east falls into hostile hands, how much do you think gasoline would cost then. $3.00 a gallon is bad but if militants take over the oil rich middle east, you'll pay $10.00 a gallon or more for gas if you can even get it.

Answer 8

The Bible King James Version, Joshua, Chap 1, Verse 4-6, Amen

Answer 9

They have been ordered to.

This was done to appease the defense companies that bought and paid for Bush's campaign. The Raytheons, Lockheed Martins, Haliburtons, and a host of others bank on a neoconservative president to find a way to make their exects even wealthier.

$500 Billion of tax payer's money has been diverted to the profits of these companies and others just like them. Reagan made billions for Raytheon with the hoax, Star Wars program

Answer 10

To be strictly logical the only reason the ¨troops¨are fighting in Iraq is because that is where they were sent. We have a professional ,mercenary not draftee,army made up of men and women who sign on to do a job and get paid a salary and lifelong benefits for doing so.( ¨Theirs not to reason why¨.)

What were our government's reasons for sending them? THAT should be your question.

Well,first we were told that it was because Iraq had broken U.N. resolutions(since most people in my country despise the UN this does not make much sense as a reason) and because the presence of WMD made a pre emptive strike necessary to save the world.

When this was shown to be false then all of a sudden we were told that our mission was to bring Saddam Hussein to justice because he was such a bad guy. No one could dispute his reputation for vileness but, again,since we were the ones who had put him in power in the first place and had for years applauded his bad guy ways with the Iranians,what kind of reasoning was this? Were we going to go after every rogue in the world's rogue gallery,many of whom are our staunch allies?

Since that reason didn't wash either they decided to tell us that our troops were there to bring democracy. It would seem evident that this is an idea that hasn't taken root there. According to Bush's 2nd innaugural address our troops are going to be very busy for the rest of our life time because the U.S. has a moral obligation and a mission to spread our way of life and democracy to every nation on earth,even if we have to ram it down their throats nd bomb them into it.

My opinion?

There is an onrunning ideological premise that assumes our country has a sacred mission to impose our democracy on the world,an extension of the 19th century idea of Manifest Destiny. A doctrine which justified us in our genocidal occupation of the whole continent from sea to shining sea,the invasion of Mexico,the theft of Texas,the militarily enforced union of the independent southern states in the bloodiest war of the century,the Spanish American War and the subsequent War in the Philippines- where we slaughtered about 250,000 little brown brothers in 2 yrs to convince them of the benefits of U.S. style democracy(400 yrs of Spanish colonialism had not produced one tenth that attrition rate!), our determination to oust the European powers from their Asian and African colonies after WW II so that we could supplant them ( paving the way for the Vietnam War after we screwed the French with our protege Ho Chi Minh and later,after that backfired on us, the labour thug mafioso Diem ) . Today's middle east crisis,the interminable war in Angola,the tyranny of the Mugabes and Idi Amins are all a legacy of that ¨enlightened¨policy of supplanting the European powers. When democracy miraculously took root in some places(IRAN!!) we immediately stepped in to supplant it with OUR preferred version(the Shah).
The Perles,Rumsfelds,Krauthammers,Wolfowitzes,etc etc wanted a chance to engage in this traditional U.S. past time and 9/11 and the subsequent security hysteria handed them a golden opportunity on a silver platter. It was a piece of cake to convince a gullible nation that somehow (unexplained to this day!!!) Iraq and Saddam Hussein were behind the criminal terrorist action.

Answer 11

we're in iraq to secure the oil, protect israel, and build permanent bases in the middle east