Did Bush declare war on Iraq because Saddam hated Al Qaeda?

Question

If it wasn't for Al Qaeda,
Bush would never have been re-elected.
So he protected Al Qaeda from Saddam? http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0211-11.htm

GOPer,
Republicans had the majority of the House and Senate when the war was approved by them. Can't you come up with a better excuse than that?

ozbe,
It's not Al Gore, Bill Clinton, and John Kerry's fault that Bush misled them with handpicked faulty intelligence reports while ignoring the real intelligence reports which were only recently declassified.

Answer 1

Iran never supported OBL either but Bush would say he did indirectly.

Answer 2

Al Qaeda was irrelevant to Bush’s plan except insofar as he could exploit the concept and try to link Saddam with terrorism in the minds of the American people. Iraq has the second largest known oil reserves in the world. Iraq was a target for invasion from the earliest days of the Bush administration.

Answer 3

No. Bush declared war on Saddam simply by fact of (one million) each and every of the incomplete organization of the 1st Gulf war; (2) Saddam's flagrant violations of his settlement to permit inspection of his armed forces centers; (3) Saddam's consistent violations of the no-fly zone; (4) U.S. oil hobbies; (5) the will of the U.S. armed forces commercial complicated to play with some high priced demise toys; (6) the Bush administration's appropriate hazard (as simply by 9/11) to regulate the rustic by worry of greater terrorist assaults; (7) to regulate a strategic section interior the middle East, smack dab in between the actual gamers interior the Mid East conflict: Pakistan, Iran, and Syria. At a fee of one thousand billion funds and counting. The WMD element grew to become into merely a thank you to get Congressional popularity of marvel and Awe.

Answer 4

The President cannot declare War. Congress is the only body in the USA that can declare War.
In fact, War was NOT declared on Iraq. When you get to Civics class, they will explain to you how that works, so keep your attendance up.

Answer 5

You mean the same Saddam who Al Gore, Bill Clinton, and John Kerry all said publicly needed to go?

Answer 6

READ history Bin LADEN one day was an American manufactured weapon against USSR, as Frankenstein story the weapon turned to kill his Master (the real monster).If history could tell truth,Americans would kill all their monsters(their presidents)

Answer 7

I don't think that was the reason - and how can you be so sure he wouldn't been re-elected considering his opponent, John "Habitual Liar" Kerry? Very often an election simply becomes the lessor of two evils.

Answer 8

No he declared war on Iraq because his zionist masters ordered him to, now they are ordering him to attack Iran.

Answer 9

Saddam was attempting to go nuclear, much like Iran is today.

http://www.nationalreview.com/kurtz/kurtz093002.asp

Answer 10

and Liberals and Bush Haters kept forgetting the war was authorized by the Congress. why????