With the MANY brutual dictators around the world why pick Saddam to take out? Why was he so special?

Question

With warlords all over the world massacring people who don't agree with them, why did the US parade into Iraq and pretend that the purpose was to give "freedom" to Iraqis? Is anyone still pretending that this had anything to do with morality and if so why are they still so incredibly ignorant?

Answer 1

oil

Answer 2

It was a continuation of the Gulf War. Saddam signed a cease fire in the 1990's. That UN sponsored cease fire required that Saddam meet certain demands before the hostilities would end. Clinton refused to pressure him to meet those demands. Bush and the 2002 congress didn't. Read public law 107-243 passed by congress in Oct 2002. It gives many reasons why we went back into Iraq and gave Bush the authority to invade.

Answer 3

Iran is a Democracy we've one thousand's of troops in South Korea and the North has been monitored by making use of way of the US and Japan militia continuously for the previous fifty six years. Zimbabwe is supposedly a Democracy I even haven't any concept what we could earnings from ousting the Bhutanese government. they're somewhat inocuous. Saudi Arabia is an superb chum indoors the area and the US has militia bases there, it probable does no longer be a sturdy precedent to set by making use of way of toppling a regime which permits your militia to verify there an video show the area i do no longer understand approximately Turkmenistan. Saddam grew to grow to be of direction the rogue elephant with the main possibility to reason a situation - He has attacked the worldwide locations of Iran, Kuwait and Israel mutually as he had the possibility. there grew to grow to be no reason to think of of he grew to grow to be reformed.

Answer 4

I have come up with a good analogy about Saddam and why we chose him instead of some other regimes. Really, only Syria and Iran were the other options, but that is another discussion. Basically, Saddam was living on a block of crackhouses, and his house was also a crackhouse. He just got his door kicked in first. His house was the easiest to get a warrant for. We'll take care of them one at a time.

Answer 5

It wasn't about Saddam. It was about Bush and company wanting to establish a physical presence in the Middle East. Iraq was the weakest country , therefore they were the target of an invasion. I don't pretend for a minute that this had anything to do with morality.

Answer 6

Saddam thumbed his nose at the UN and resolutions within the UN. He was a threat to the stability of the middle east and possessed WMD's (he used them against his own people AND the Iranians). Do you honestly believe that he would have been contained within his borders if the UN and US had done nothing?

Answer 7

Next door neighbors to Iran. Bush's agenda is revelations. He wants it to begin. Why do you think he ok'd the vchip for children under the guise of finding abducted children. This chip has the capacity to hold all the information on each person from birth to death and everything in between. The zeralot believes himself to be the anti-christ

Answer 8

He was the one who had twice violated the borders of another nation, and he was also the one who violated the terms of the treaty that ended Gulf War I by not allowing unfettered weapons inspections.

Answer 9

Saddam was a threat to the US. He was harboring terrorists for one thing.

Answer 10

Clinton seemed to think so in the 90's. Too bad he didn't help Rwanda.

Answer 11

To steal the Iraq peoples' oil.