NOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! , Why do you think Bush went ahead to invade Iraq ???

by run dont walk 28 Replies latest social current

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  run dont walk

  The war is going on and on, and may be awhile before it actually officially ends.

  The original reason for invasion was because of weapons of mass destruction, but that has fizzled,

  So why do you think Bush was so keen on invading Iraq ???

  Oil, money, power, helping the Iraqi people, ???

  Or maybe to fix his Dad's mistake ???

  It has been sad, so many young americans and others killed daily, lives lost, lots of bloodshed, Saddam was an ass, no doubt about that !!!!!!!!!!!, but was the war worth it ??? (tough question)

  If the USA could press rewind, and start over, what should they of done differently, and what should of the rest of the world done differently including the UN.
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  SanFranciscoJim

  Oil, ..... ???

  Yes.

  ....money,.... ???

  Yes.

  .... power, .... ???

  Indirectly.

  .... helping the Iraqi people, ???

  Probably at the bottom of the list, if on the list at all. Saddam Hussein was slaughtering his own minions long before there was any talk of taking out Iraq by the current administration. I still don't understand why Bush and his cronies had to manufacture so-called WMDs when this country had a perfectly legitimate reason for overthrowing the Hussein regime. The U.S. (and Bush) could have been looked upon as heroes, but thanks to a poorly played political strategy, we are now looked upon with incredulity and skepticism.

  My opinion? I think the invasion was a tactical manouver to take the public's eye off the fact that we have been unable to locate Osama Bin Laden, and that Al Qaeda is still thriving.
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  Tatiana

  My opinion? I think the invasion was a tactical manouver to take the public's eye off the fact that we have been unable to locate Osama Bin Laden, and that Al Qaeda is still thriving.

  ditto
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  metatron

  None of the above

  Military intervention in the Muslim world is necessary for world peace because they threaten civilization with suicidial

  fanaticism.

  Trying to encourage democracy hasn't worked - as Jimmy Carter proved by helping the Shah out ( bad) , which caused

  the Ayatollahs in ( worse). Many Muslims would eagerly elect Bin Laden if they could.

  So, invading Iraq under a pretext and pushing the Arab world towards SECULAR progress seems the better choice.

  Already, progress is being made in Saudi Arabia.

  The Muslim nations are filled with hate and jealousy born out of their own failure. A few honest

  Muslims admit this - but get drowned out by more calls for more hate and grotesque conspiracy

  theories to explain why they have nothing to offer the world but oil.

  Needless to say, these things can't be said in public - which is why Bush is stuck with a smokescreen

  of propaganda. I hope he succeeds - because if he doesn't - Arab and Muslim people may get 'written off'

  as irreformable, violent monsters who must be gotten rid of. The last time the US was faced with suicide

  bombers in a major war ( WW2) the result was Hiroshima. Liberals should stop whining and seek

  a sense of humanity for these misguided nations.

  metatron
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  Gadget

  I still don't understand why Bush and his cronies had to manufacture so-called WMDs when this country had a perfectly legitimate reason for overthrowing the Hussein regime. The U.S. (and Bush) could have been looked upon as heroes, but thanks to a poorly played political strategy, we are now looked upon with incredulity and skepticism.

  I agree. I think people have become lost from the bigger picture, here was a dictator who done many evil things, and now everybodies complaining because something was done about it.
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  dolphman

  I think it was more of a strategic decision based on making absolutely sure there were no WMD in the hands of Saddam post 9/11, and that by ridding the region of that man the whole of the middle east could begin a process of transoformation into a more stable, democratic one.

  Saddam didn't contribute to the peace or stability of the region whatsoever. Up until 1995 weapon's inspectors were still finding stockpiles of WMD.

  Everybody's favorite president CLINTON (of all people) launched cruise missile strikes against Saddam! Apparently even he thought saddam was hiding something.

  All circumstancial evidence pointed to Saddam having WMD. Seriously. Saddam bluffed, apparently thinking he needed the "street cred" of having WMD to survive in power a little while longer. THis gave him stature in the middle east, but put him at odds with the hawks in washington, giving them more ammo for going to war.

  Getting rid of Saddam and stabalizing Iraq will only bring good to the Iraqi people. The people in Iraq right now fighting us are the same people who executed millions of their own people for years. Let's not feel sorry for these people. The Iraqis are caught in the middle unfortunately, but i doubt any of them will miss the death squads.
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  Phantom Stranger

  To put it bluntly, because the people we pay to do his thinking for him told him he needed to do it.

  Now, as far as why they wanted to... those reasons seem to be well documented - the neocon hawks' opinions, the experience of GulfWar I, the desire to keep any WMDs from hitting Israel and triggering a nuke response, the desire to impose some stability onto the source for a lotta oil, all those were present. But the bottom line is above.
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  logansrun

  I think Bush wanted to take over to fulfill his sexual fantasies.
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  expatbrit

  Because that naughty Saddam wanted to rebuild Babylon and that was against Bible prophecy and so Jehovah put hooks into the jaws of George Bush so that we can see the truth of the scripture that "it is impossible for God to lie".

  Expatbrit
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  Satanus

  It could very well be as metatron described it. There are some other ancillary reasons, such as israel's and it's agents' influence, but i don't think the republicans could get totally derailed off their goals. It's all the manipulative, preconditioning lies about the reasons for the war that bug me.

  SS