So, why are we in Iraq again??

Question

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080603/ap_on_re_as/china_earthquake

Answer 1

power and the money, money and the power, minute after minute, hour after hour, everybodies runnin but half of them ain't looking what going on in the kitchen they don't know what's cookin.



You can protest in China you just have to obey the laws and stay in the free speech zone. this is just another example of the associated press trying to make money off of nationalism and other peoples suffereing.



When I lived in China a few years back, The news reports talked about one of your (USA) immigration rallies, the one where the police shot tear gas into the crowd, arrested people and ran over a news reporter. The Chinese media loved this, they made it out like the US was a riot and falling apart. I called my friend back in NY and he was like whatever, it's the same crap that's always been going on. So don't try to jump on the bandwagon of pointing your fingers at others, when you really don't know what your talking about. The media is LYING to us. They have commited every sin in the book. Spin, slander, liabel, hate, even against thier own people. Do not listen to this crack. They are not doing you any favors, they are trying to create drama and intrique to sell papers. Everyone has thier own experience of the world, do not let someone else tell you what to believe, especially when it's this biased BS that promotes hate!



As for dragging away associated press reporters, i'm fine with that. They are not news reporters, they are not looking for truth, they are looking for supporting evidence to support thier agenda. Thier agenda of war and hatred. In fact they probably mobilized these people so they could get a photo op of the big bad govt and cook up war fever in America. I would guess that the associated press is owned by Israel. That probably offends you and you have no clue thanks to your media.

Answer 2

What most partisans fail to acknowledge, is what Bush did was brilliant. He finally got the inspectors in unimpeeded by massing our troops on the border to put to rest, once and for all, the WMD's issue.

Blix and co were not finding a damned thing on the ground despite us giving him our intelligence and were begging for more time.

Bush then said, they just got to have them and said we are going to invade anyway, even though Saddam and Iraq posed no threat, had no delivery system to make that threat and no WMD's were to be found.



Then Bush went monumentally stupid and the rest is history.



What confuses me to no end, is so many people ignore the obvious and pick on the most flimsy of excuses for the invasion, reasons that paint us as lacking any amount of common sense, or compassion except when it is our political leaders best interests.



That is why we have lost the lions share of respect in the world. And why I think world leaders are laughing behind Bush's back, and why Bush can't get much of anything done in the world. They only give him lip service, because, after all, we have the biggest military machine on the planet, and we are still #1 economically.



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Life is so simple, but we insist on making it complicated



Confucius

551 - 479 BC

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Peace



Jim



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Answer 3

In a word, the answer is OIL! Not only that, but Iraq was an easy target, since it was weak. There is no way that we would ever attack a militarily strong country like China.

Answer 4

To stop Iraq's oil production and insure it's huge untapped oil fields are kept from being developed. By the way, that's not the official reason.

Answer 5

ignoring the UN, committing genocide, sponsoring terrorism are some of the reasons. A side benefit of all of this is the fact that al quaida is noticeably weaker now. They aren't hiding in caves any longer. They are in Iraq and we are fighting them.

Answer 6

I'm guessing by your link that you think we should topple the oppressive Chinese regime for arresting 100 people who were protesting insufficient building codes? Oh, yeah, that's just as bad as gassing thousands of your own people, ignoring UN sanctions for 12 years, and having known ties to the major terror organizations of the Mideast. Fire up the planes, boys, we're going after those meanies in China.

Answer 7

Because the financers for Iraq are more or better than the financers of China.



We're in bed with China.

Answer 8

Because it makes certain industries, whom Bush supports, lots and lots of money. Americans are under the illusion that our goverment represents the people instead of the truth which is they represent those who represent the lobbiests in Washington.

Answer 9

Here is what the US Congress said:



http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021002-2.html

Answer 10

So Blackwater and Halliburton can get rich!

Answer 11

Saddam ignored the UN sanctions and he knew, by doing so, he would be "punished". Yes, it is this simple!

Answer 12

Bush and his neocon handlers want it that way.

Answer 13

So you want us to invade China? AYRTS?

Answer 14

i think its to stop 911...wait...WMD...no that either....erm...spread democracy, wait USA isn't a democratic system it is a republic.....erm....i don't know.

Answer 15

Killing Terrorist.