why could our government not taken a passive stand  after 9/11 attack. why not leave S. Hussein & Iraq alone?
147308
If you looked out your front door and saw a man beating his wife and kids would you just say, "None of my business." and ignore it.  Then the next day you saw him beat up his neighbor would you say it again and go about your business.  Then when that man walks across the street and starts beating on your door what would you do?  By then it is to late the bully has intimidated everyone into saying, "None of my business."  \n\nI do not think the American/British people were given the right reason for fighting Iraq.  After seeing first hand what he was doing to his people I am glad I went over their.\n\nAs for being passive after 9/11, How about someone kills your family and half of your friends.  Would you shrug your sholders without a care in the world?
19516
Primarily because the government that is in place in the USA realizes that they cannot extract our troops without a serious international backlash. The USA is notorious for pulling out at the worse possible moment, before the job is done. The war in Iraq is nowhere near being finished, and to leave now would be ruinous. Bush didn't realize (like the rest of us did) that he was stepping into something with a very difficult and potentially bloody endgame.
455158
The full power over our Military was Given to King Bush and The Bush Bunch by Our Congress right after 911.When we attack another country now,it is not as the US, although it is mostly US military,it is King Bush and his Multi- National forces.The tragic part for us U.S. Citizens is the whole world thinks we are all behind this.The truth is many,many of us can see how awfully wrong all this is.The main fear is it will get much,much worse.
11211
I don't think there are grounds for impeachment, but going to war was definitely wrong.  The reasons he gave the American public for going to war turned out to be lies.  There were no WMD.  When Bush was campaigning they harped on the fact that they WERE NOT interested in nation building.  Now?  "We can't pull out of Iraq.  It is our responsibility to rebuild their government and get them on their feet."  Every time anyone tries to use 9-11 to justify the war I throw up a little in my mouth.  Osama bin Laden and al Quida are responsible for 9-11.  One war, billions of dollars and thousands of American lives later, Osama bin Laden is still free and al Quida is still in operation.  Sound like a success to you?
814006
Will a terrorist group take over if we get out of Iraq?  That is a good question.  If our government is waiting to make sure that no terrorist group will move in and take over we will be there for eternity.  No one will ever be able to remove all the terrorist cells that exist because once one is depleated another one will rise up.  We will never know what is going to happen until we get out of there.  When will that be? I wish it is sooner than later but that is not my decision to make.  I just wish they would do something so that our guys will quit getting killed over there.  Bush accomplished what he wanted which was to get Hussein out of power.  The rest of this is just politics to try to make himself look good which it has not.  There was never any WMD found or even any proof that any existed so why are we still there?  You are correct in saying that they have their own army and trained at that so why don't we get out now?  I wish I had an answer for that.
109185
He is the WAR president, silly.  Now that just would not make good sense would it?  FLASH! to pn... where is the evidence that Iraq had ANYTHING to do with 9/11.  Were there any terrorists attacking the US from Iraq ? NO.\nAfter the US led invasion and occupation, Iraq is a training ground for terrorists from around the world - thanks to Bush.\nBut we caused that mess and created a political vacuum that is leading to a civil war.  Don't be a sheep and follow the sheeple that bleat 9/11 9/11 , terra terra terra. \nThey are largely uninformed and misled.
1084897
WE ALL KNOW IRAQ NEVER ATTACKED THE USA. Pres. Saddam Hussein was trying to make sure the flow of oil to the Zionists and America wasn't as fluid as America would like. Hence the reason they got rid of him. The pretext of saving the Iraqi people from Saddam is nothing but a lie. Just like 9/11
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After the US pullout of Somolia in 1998, Osama and Al Qaeda decided they could destroy the US with one giant attack, so they planned it over the next 3 years, finally executing it on September 11th.  \n\nThis triggered the US response to terrorism.  Iraq was central in this effort that because Hussein and his regime was funding terrorism around the globe, was collaborating with Al Qaeda, and was sheltering known terrorists and terrorist groups in Iraq (one group we attacked on the first days of the current war).  Also, Hussein had been warned by the UN 17 times to comply with disarming his weapons and showing the disarmament, and he failed to do so.
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What people don't understand is that we cannot pull out.  When Bush Sr. was in control of Desert Storm and then pulled out - Saddam killed all of those who supported us - that was around 60,000 people.  If we picked up and left - it would be chaos.  Whether you support the war or not - we cannot leave.\n\nIf you look back at World War 2 - US and Japan were the same.  Its new and the problem is that people think war is over in 6 months  - ITS WAR not a soccer game - we are in it for the long haul.
937910
I have screamed since 9/11 that we needed to look at those who gained from the attacks, just prior to the attack, the middle east was in chaos, Israel was in trouble with the UN and US public opinion was calling for sanctions in their attacking unarmed Palastinains, Bush was pushing for increased sanctions against Iraq, meanwhile bomb sniffing dogs were removed from the trade centers and security was cut back drastically. Much of the buildings colaspe does not make scientific sense if it was caused by the fire and inpact from the jets, steel does not melt at the temp that the fire heated to, buildings do not free fall when colasping only imploding caasues this. No engine or balck box was found in the pentegon! Too many unanswered questions and no real governement attempt to answer them
726905
The situation in Iraq reminds me of trying to hold water in your bare hands.  The present government is like a Mirage in the desert, and will surely fall, maybe as soon as this week if the Shiites threat holds up.  If we leave Iraq will collapse.  If we stay it will collapse slower, but still collapse.  The idea that fundamentalists, no matter of what stripe, will have control of Iraq's oil I'm sure is making people sweat all over the world.  Oil must be reasonably stable.  To accomplish this end,  Bush is going to have to open this up and really include the rest of the world in discussions, military personnel, planning, and execution,  if there is any hope at this point  Let us hope that it is not too late for some form of reasonable solution to be worked out.
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I agree with deedlebay, w.o.m.d. were just a cloak to get into Iraq. Hello people I thought we were going into war to defend our country because of 9/11. We have people from America and other countries dying everyday and we still haven't got Bin Laden?!? \nNot only that but Saddam is on trial for events that happened in the 1980's not for the innocent lives that were lost on Sept.11th. Where is their justice?
890379
Iraq was not like it is now when Saddam was in power. Saddam was a threat to his own people, and those around him, period. World threat? Threat to America? Not by any thinking person's stretch of the imagination. We had to retaliate for 9/11 and a group of brilliant people decided Iraq was the path of least resistance after we topple their tyrant to install a democracy. Wishful thinking at its best, we are starting to see the worst. Things have degraded to their tribal levels split along religious sects. We invaded without understanding the culture and history of the region. Hatred and war are long time bed-partners in the middle-east. Just to keep the excitement growing we can now add extremely twisted, hate filled, religious fundamentalist zealots adding to the killing in the name of Allah.  Baghdad is eerily starting to look like Saigon. We won't need a strategy to get out, we'll need emergency evacuation.
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A couple of things for you to consider.\n\n1. Bush _was_ warned about 9/11. There are numerous different reports that were not followed up on, including one titled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack in US". It would have been relatively easy to stop the attacks if the pres had paid attention to that. Not to mention, it's not the job of ordinary citizens to notify Bush of pending attacks. He's the president - you shouldn't expect people on Yahoo Answers to know more than the president.\n\n2. Bin Laden and Al Qaeda were in Afghanistan. Most of the US (myself included) supported going to war there. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, so saying that people who are against that war are weak on terror is disingenuous.\n\n3. Yes, we are at war, and yes, there are people fighting. That doesn't mean that people shouldn't protest the president's choice to go to war. People aren't protesting the soldiers, they're protesting the administration. That's not only an American right, it's a responsibility.\n\n4. Even if Iraq was the right war to fight, it hasn't been fought in the right manner. Good intentions don't go very far, sorry.\n\nInstead of telling people to shut up, why don't you try researching the actual facts of what's going on with this war and this president? Stop hiding behind the Fox News "terrorists are going to attack us" thing and think for yourself.
1141141
there are sources that say the government had information that there would be an attack...but it was very general.  And it was not Pres. Bush that knew this.....The Clinton administration was in power when threats were received as well....it was lack of communication allowed between FBI and CIA.  It wasn't as though they called up the President and said "on 9/11 we are going to fly planes into the twin towers..."  And then he did nothing...that would make him a monster...and regardless of how you think of him politically...he is not up there with the Husseins and the Polpots...
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First off, its about securing access to Middle Eastern Oil.\nSome of the people behind this strategy, Richard Pearle, Feith, and Paul Wolfowitz planned this thing out...when the 9/11 attacks came out, Americans were panicked into letting the president have sweeping war powers.  In other words they acted like sheep - acting out of fear.\n\nNext, the Bush Admin drummed up a fake cause to go to war based on a fantasy that Saddam was hiding weapons of mass destruction - these were NEVER found.\nMost of the support for this arguement came from false intelligence, cherry picked to bolster a justification for the invasion and occupation. \n\nNow, with support for the war erroding at home, we are mired down in a fiasco with no exit strategy in a country where sectarian civil war is already in progress...and possibly getting worse.   Its never a good sign when no one is allowed to drive any kind of a car due to martial law. \n\nIn short, this is about oil and the American people have been lied to.  I don't see it ending until we run this administration out of office...or they run out of steam and mark time the rest of the time they are in office.
680027
We are not all so tolerant. It makes some of us very ill to think about.  The war was suppose to be about 9/11 and terrorism.  There are other countries with dictators as bad or even worse then Saddam.  He had nothing to do with Iraq and yet Osama has his job still.  Some Americans here say that "they hate us for our freedom" but I guess they don't realize we are not the only free country in the world.  There are other counries that have more freedom then we hve here.  Our country is a mess and many of us pray for this time to pass.