If Bush had never dragged America into Iraq would America be so divided as it is now?

Answer 1

We would still be split nearly 50-50 but the divisions would not be as deep. Domestic policy put in place by one administration can always be undone by the next so disagreements are a much less intense than divisions over a war which can't be undone and have consequences that last for a long time after it is over.

Answer 2

The reason we are so divided now is because of the sham of an investigation we got into 911!
So my answer is yes..................and we won't be able to re-unite until we have a transparent impartial investigation into the beginning of this "WAR ON TERROR" ! That gave Bush the "political capital" he needed for the approval of the Iraq invasion!

Answer 3

The government has pretty much in agreement with war, it's the public that's divided and we have the media and things like racism, religion and social issues to keep us divided.

Answer 4

The war certainly isn't helping but I don't see that as the main factor. A slow erosion of respect for the political process and community ethics in general has been going on for some time now. The whole thing has devolved into my side versus yours and I'm gonna win...


...and the result of this extreme partisan politics is that everybody loses out of fear of losing. (ironic isn't it?)

Answer 5

i would like to believe it wouldnt be. ill tell you what i would have love to seen. president bush standing on that rumble talking on bull horn saying america is strong and we will have to sacrifice but we can will do it. we will render the middle east powerless by making america energy independent. the american people on 911 and years after were ready to do what ever it took, we would have come up with a solution, yet we fell into lies and ended up in a senseless war.

Answer 6

What blows my mind is the fact that so many Americans seem to think this level of entrenched division is normal... or manageable. It isn't, and no modern countries in the world have anything like it.

America is in huge trouble, and most Americans can't even appreciate how truly destructive the situation now is.

Iraq didn't create the divisions, but it has served to illuminate them.

Answer 7

It became divided when Bush beat Gorf in the 2000 election. Liberals were determined to drive America into the ground instead of trying to find a decent candidate to run against Bush in 2004. And here we are getting ready for the 2008 election and still they haven't found a candidate to run against the republicans.

Answer 8

Yes. Conservatives are trouble-makers who are not satisfied unless they are fighting SOMEONE: atheists, gays, liberals, minorities or anyone who disagrees with them.

So, they are flagged for having an agenda. Fortunately, they have failed at implementing it. Bush cabinet fell apart and people not wanting to associate with conservative dogma have fled.

Without the war, conservatives would have still maintained their confrontational idealogies and try to usurp American democracy for their prehistoric, 'little-house-on-the-praire' value system.

Answer 9

If the Democrats had not changed their position and continued to support the President, like they had in the beginning, we would not be divided. Bush is showing strength by not 'cutting and running' even though the Democrats have turned on him. They turned on him because war is a difficult thing and things "always" go different than planned. Now they can attack him and look good. It is dirty politics.

Answer 10

‚America’ isn’t ‚America’.

We cannot answer this question because your term ‚America’ isn’t clear.

Which continent do you mean? North or South America? And which country in one of theese 2 continents called 'America'?

'America' for 'USA' is politically and geographically not correct.