Why did Bush decide to invade Iraq?
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Well Georgie's DAD went after Saddam and had to give up before he finished. Now saddam was sticking out his tongue at georgie and saying Nah, nah, nah ,nah, nah, you can't get me and my dad's better than your dad. and georgie got very angry and went to his evil friends and said can you make up some good stories about saddam so I can get him. I'll even let u make some money and we can cause oil panic and make it really expensive. Now saddam was always bragging about weapons he really didn't have so it was easy. And then Georgie took the fairy tales to congress and told them saddam was a bully and they said we have to take him down and they did.\n\nP.S. on more serious note, What does Michael Moore have to do with this? Unlike people that get get their opinions from FOX news, some of us can get information from multiple data sources and make our own judgements. And in the best case for George the fact  that we are not getting much OIL from Iraq now shows what a bad job we've done. At the worst , it could mean that it was about Oil, but not about getting it, about restricting its flow, making it more expensive and creating wealth for Bush's Cronies. Not only does Oil scarcity immediately increase their income; it also makes it practical to develop Oil reserves in their holdings that were previously too expensive to drill or politically inexpedient reserves like those in  Alaska. Lastly How is Bush protecting us when we've creating a new base of operations for Al Quaeda in Iraq instead of closing down the existing one in Afghanistan. If anything, the entire situation in the middle East is more unstable than its ever been before.
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cuz bush is an idiot and likes oil...especially in iraq.
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Hi there,\n\nI think the reason is to show off their power or the greed for power.\n\nHere's why I think so-\n\nThe USA first attacked Iraq and captured Saddam Hussein near Tikrit. The reason Mr.Bush gave for that is that the USA suspects some biological weapons in Iraq.\n\nAfter the war was over but nothing revealed, Mr.Bush apologized for this bliss by saying that he received false intelligence reports. Now that's easy, it's the same thing as I kick you hard and then apologize. Whatever the damage should be done, it was done. \n\nSo I think the reason for these attacks is not any terrorist threat to USA or the greed for oil, but it is just to show off it's power to the world after the attack of Sep 11th. I just think it is a ploy to scare away the people. It means something like Mr.Bush wants to say "We are rich, we are powerful, we can do anything, so don't mess with us."\n\nI don't mean to offend all the Americans out there. I just told you my opinion about the attacks. If I offended anyone, my sincere apologies. And let me make it clear, I'm not being partial to Mr.Hussein. I think he ruled Iraq for quite some time with an iron fist.\n\nI just told you my opinion frankly, but anyone of you here are free to disagree with this. After all, everyone has their own thought process. \n\n\nrule wid style n luv@vinny
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Bush wanted Iraq's oil.
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b/c he wanted revenge about his father from saddam and b/c he wanted oil... also, his approval ratings improved a lot initially after the attack on afghanistan, so he though he could get reelected by attacking iraq.
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because bush told him to
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because bush wants their oil
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Because US wasn't looking for chemical weapons in Iraq. Bush just needed an excuse to invade Iraq to get control of the loads of oil located there.
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BUSH'S DEEP REASONS FOR WAR ON IRAQ: OIL, PETRODOLLARS, AND THE OPEC EURO QUESTION
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Because Iraq had oil.\n\nBut really the question should be: why invade anyone? Wars of aggression (like Iraq was and an attack on Cuba would be) are illegal under international law and have been since the 14th century.\n\nIraq was not a threat. It had no connection AT ALL with 9/11, the only terrorists being harboured were in the north (i.e. the area controlled by the Kurds (US allies)), and as late as May 2001 the Bush administration were saying that Iraq has no WMDs and didn't constitute a risk to anyone. The US invaded Iraq for political and ideological reasons, and dragged my country along with it.\n\nThe result - we're in more danger from terrorists now than in 2001.
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Here are some of the justifications for invading Irak:\n\nThreat From Saddam Hussein \nIraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction \nTerrorism and Terrorist Links \nHuman Rights Abuses \nIraq's Oil \nSpreading Democracy In the Middle East \nIraq's United Nation Security Council Resolution \nViolations Preemption \nIntelligence \n\nAll of them have been proven worng.  All of them were excuses made by the Bush administration.\n\nWhen Zalmay Khalilzad, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, says, "It was a serious crisis. I believe that Iraq came to the brink and came back," the swiftness of his prognosis sounds like little more than wishful thinking. Less than a week after an event that has already resulted in 1,300 deaths, it seems way too early to be declaring that Iraq has clearly pulled back from the brink of civil war. Moreover, when US military spokesman, Lt. Col. Barry Johnson, says, "The violence did not escalate, because of the measures [the Iraqi government] took. We had forces standing by if needed. Fortunately, that need wasn't realized," he is exaggerating the influence of elected officials, overestimating the capabilities of Iraqi and US forces, and minimizing the role of clerics in controlling the violence. While the US military and Iraqi government clearly want to sustain the impression that they have everything under control, a much more credible view of the situation comes from Capt. Gregory Stone, who said, "It felt -- at times -- like someone else's war."\n\nThe short answer is yes, civil war is the result of the Bush administration intervention in the Middle East.  But that's exactly what they expect.
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The President can send troop into a situation for 90 days without Congressional approval. However, as the vote was put after the events of 9/11 he was given the authority to pursue what course he chose. He chose to target Iraq.
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There are a lot of different theories. But the reason Bush himself gives is that Iraq and the "Axis of Evil" are a threat to American safety, either by hiding terrorists, supporting terrorists, or making weapons of mass destruction (WMD)\n\nMany claim there are other reasons though, including for resources (oil) and for power and control in the Middle East region.
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We had no business being in Iraq in the first place. There are only two reasons why Goerge Bush invaded this sovereign nation: 1) he wanted to 'get even' with Saddam Hussein for humiliating his daddy during Desert Storm; 2) Dick Cheney wants all that oil swimming underneath Iraq's sands.\n\nSo, Cheney and Rumsfeld persuaded Bush to proceed with an illegal, unconstitutional war.\n\n(Check out a new blog - BUSHWACKER! -\nwww.blogger.com\nhttp://al-aback.blogspot.com)\n\nFinding no weapons of mass destruction, Bush is too much of a 'macho man' to back down, so continues his charade by telling Americans that Iraq is part of an "evil empire". Truth be told, the only "evil empire" is that of the United States as it bullies other countries around the world for its own economic benefit. Let's face it: there are all kinds of other despots running regimes around the world, but Bush pays no attention to those dictatorships. Why? Because they have no OIL. So the United States allows the genocide to continue, sometimes even providing financial aid! \n\nBush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are indeed the most evil, corrupt and incompetent people ever to occupy the Oval Office. The sitting U.S. Congress is the most evil, corrupt and incompetent body ever to occupy the Capitol Building. \n\nAll of these people deserve to be impeached, or tried for high treason. If convicted they must face a firing squad. Their crimes against humanity, against the Constitution, and against the American populace are unspeakable. George Bush has murdered tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi citizens, not to mention more than 2,500 U.S. soldiers. \n\nBush has no interest in turning Iraq into a democracy (how many other countries is he using these forceful tactics on to change their way of government?). Prediction: NO TROOPS WILL BE WITHDRAW FROM IRAQ UNTIL DICK CHENEY HAS AN IRON-CLAD, ROCK-SOLID AGREEMENT IN PLACE TO ACQUIRE ALL OF IRAQ'S OIL so that he and his friends at Hallaburton and Exxon-Mobil can become even more obscenely wealthy.\n\nShould there be a time table for withdrawal? Of course; since we're already there, it would be chaos if we left immediately. But we should have never been there in the first place. What George Bush did was illegal, evil, and repugnant to most of the civilized world. Bush has put Americans trillions of dollars into debt' he has tarnished our reputation as a global leader; and he has helped spread the terrorist movement because, now, many small countries are terrified of the U.S.A., afraid that they, too will be bullied into accepting democracy or Christianity as their way of life. Nuclear weapons might be their only way of defending themselves against the tyrannical United States.\n\nHistory will certainly record Bush as the stupidest man ever to occupy the White House, to date. If he and his cronies ever get convicted of high crimes, certainly Satan will have a special oil-saturated corner of Hell reserved for them, where then can spend their eternal damnation blaming each other for the mess they made of this Earth.\n\nBush's failed economic policies promises to make us a third-world country within a generation (China will then become the global power). Bush's 'cowboy capitalism' has made us the largest debtor nation in the history of the world. Bush's "tough" actions only shows his true colors: he is nothing more than an impotent, paranoid, insecure psychopath suffering from "little king" syndrome. \n\nWhat Bush has wrought will force Americans to live a lesser quality of life for generations to come. Within 50 years, the USA will be a two-tier social class: a handful of the very, very rich - and (the rest of us) the very, very poor, just like we see in Haiti and the Dominican Republic today.\n\nThe real tragedy is that there is no bright alternative on the horizon. Even if all the Republic maggots get thrown out, they'll only be replace
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What was the main reason for bush wanting to invade iraq? to find and destroy weapons of mass destruction. He didnt find. DO u think that he woudl want to admit that he made a mistake and have other possible motives raised against him. Obviously if he tells that they are failing in iraq, people will start to go agaisnt him. Already alot of since they didnt find anything there.\nSo simple, he has to say they are doing good. Just think of the implications if he said that USA has failed or was wrong going there.
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PROOF - WAR ON IRAQ IS FOR OIL\n\nBush decided to invade Iraq in April 2001, six months before September 11th, and the official reason was to improve Western access to Iraqi oil.\n\n      "President Bush's Cabinet agreed in April 2001 that 'Iraq remains\n      a destabilising influence to the flow of oil to international markets\n      from the Middle East' and because this is an unacceptable risk to\n      the US 'military intervention' is necessary."[1] \n\nThe decision for military action had nothing to do with 9/11, the war on terrorism, the UN weapons inspections, weapons of mass destruction, Iraqi human rights, or any of the factors that the US government would like you to believe are the true motives for war.\n\nThe only people who will benefit from the war on Iraq are the elite wealthy oil men who finance Bush's election campaigns, and people like Bush who have huge personal investments in the oil industry. Oil company profits have already increased by fifty percent this year because of the war, and the invasion hasn't even started yet!\n\n      "Profits in the fourth quarter soared 50% to $4.09bn (£2.5bn),\n      beating analyst expectations."[2] \n\nWar-time propaganda tells you what you want to hear; that your politicians have noble motives for the war on Iraq.
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Bush will have plenty of time to visit with you in 2 years.\n\nUntil then, don't worry....he chose to invade Iraq. He didn't bother to make a serious effort to get you.