2007-12-28 05:24:14 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
1. They would not have voted for war if not approached by Bush.
2. They would have not gone to Irag and stayed and finish the job in Afganistan
2007-12-28 05:27:10 · answer #1 · answered by The Sidewalkinator 6 · 5⤊ 2⤋
We would have gone after him eventually anyway.
After being primed by watching Saddam make a complete fool out of Bill for 8 years, Bush would not have taken it, nor should he have.
Too bad that Bill talked about the broken UN resolutions and Iraq's WMDs throughout the last two years of his presidency, but in the end, left it on the desk for GW.
Guess he didn't have the stomach necessary to be Commander-In-Chief.
2007-12-29 03:48:21 · answer #2 · answered by wider scope 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is a very complicated question that requires a complicated answer whether one desires that or not. Bush and the congress have NOT understood the underlying issues that stir up the Middle East. To name a few; Arab-Israel conflict, Palestinian autonomy, continued United States dependency on oil for energy, extreme poverty within most of the Arab countries, United states coyness with regimes that only hide their true motives, conservative religious intolorance toward Islam to name just a few.
American politicians are going to have to seriously, without bias and without influence by religion, corporations and other known lobbies set a foreign policy that weans America from the oil "leach", refuse to take sides in the Arab- Israel conflict, begin to disengage with regimes that do not develop a visible change in the poorest citizens of their country by using their oil profits for jobs, education, improved living conditions, improved housing, better health care. Not trading with any country that does not give full freedom to women to attain their full potential in education, life's issues, political equality. If these countries continue to allow religion to dictate this behavior. America does not have to continue a relationship.
As I indicated the complicated question requires a complicated answer. I really don't think Americans have the fortitude to demand real solutions as they continue to elect the same corporation and religion controlled, narrow vision politicians that have put the United States in the unenviable position of being a weak, wussy country.
2007-12-28 14:26:59 · answer #3 · answered by Dan B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Boy you people aren't even close to getting the message.
9/11 was just a wake up call.
Had we not gone to war with Iraq to fight against Al-Queda, they would have brought it here to us, and we would be in a war on American soil.
More Americans would be dead at the hands of the rag head camel jockeys than are being killed over there.
Why is everyone so blind to see the fact that Bush did the right thing.
Had Saddam not been taken out he would still be killing his own people who are against him.
WAKE UP AMERICA AND SMELL THE COFFEE!!!
2007-12-29 10:28:51 · answer #4 · answered by David T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hard to imagine Congress pushing for the invasion without Cheney, Powell, and Bush doing their fear-mongering routine, but we wouldn't have such a great debt and the U.S. military wouldn't be stuck in the Iraq civil war. Was war ever officially declared? I might have missed it.
2007-12-28 13:33:54 · answer #5 · answered by socrates 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Probably would have finished the job in Afghanistan.
Aside from that, nothing.
I guess Cobra thinks it's a great idea to have mass murderer Osama bin Laden running free. I thought NeoCons believed in justice. Guess I was wrong.
2007-12-28 14:26:48 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not much, really.
4000 troops would not have died!!!!!!!!
Except for the fact Bush would still be lying about Iran and giving money to terrorist infested Pakistan.
I cant see Bush handling foreign policy correctly. He's just not cut out for it.
2007-12-28 13:28:07 · answer #7 · answered by Zinger! 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
the liberals would have started whining about Afghanistan by now...using it as their political tool, no different from what they are doing now......everything is easy to say if i knew then what i know now.....get real!!!!! instead of bickering and playing politics bring real solutions to the table....since bush is a moron, helping him verses fighting him would offer a better solution....only libs do not want to help fix the problem they want it to fester so they can win offices and do nothing....
2007-12-28 13:45:48 · answer #8 · answered by Twinkie Thief 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He'd have sent troops into Mexico as part of a national security initiative to secure the borders from terrorists.
2007-12-28 13:27:23 · answer #9 · answered by U.España 1 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I'm sorry, I don't actually remember Congress voting to go to war. I must have missed that on the news could you send me a link where that vote happened?
2007-12-28 13:37:42 · answer #10 · answered by mrlebowski99 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋