Why do people still insist on using 9/11 as an excuse for the Iraq war?
345317
Yeah, I think the only people who are using 9/11 as an excuse for this war are the Bush Administration.  Pretty much everyone else knows why we are in Iraq.  amazing, isn't it.
153235
The 'War on terror' is just a political stunt/excuse! Its never waste of time to the war mongers. Establishment of political & economic suprimacy over the others is the main theme of such act of barbarism. The tragedy is, the invaders dictate relationship, they neither make it nor shape it. Its just muscle-men's theory, which don't last long as we see in the history.\nIn the name of war on terror, protection of human rights, democracy, good governance bla-bla-bla, they are trying to destroy peace & harmony in today's world. But in the end, we understand, they will not be spared by the people in the Globe in tomorrows.
1059558
There are people who believe that not only believe that their opinion is better or more accurate than yours; they also believe that they are capable of making better decisions for you than are.I support this war. We owed this to the Iraqi people. In 1991, Iraqi citizens were waiting for the US and allies to come into Iraq after Sadam. We failed them then. We will not fail them now.Luckily, GWB has learned from his father's mistakes.\nOops I guess I explained....oh well!
937636
Bush is to blame . . .\n\nThe perpetrators of 9-11 were members of Al-Qaida. Iraq had nothing to do with 9-11 or Al-Qaida, and Bush misled the American people into believing the necessity of a false war.\n\nIn so doing, he cost the lives of thousands of brave american soldiers.\n\nOur freedoms over here have been curtailed by Bush in ways that haven't happened in hundreds of years - including the abolishment of habeas corpus and the illegal wiretapping efforts.\n\nFurthermore, as a result of invading Iraq, anti-american sentiment has INCREASED all over the world, as has the number of terrorists that are angry at the US.\n\nYou've been lied to, fooled, and deceived.
930397
You know, I wonder how many people actually pay attention to history.  It's been this way since the beginning of time.  Humans are just horrible.  Nobody made the Muslims the threat, they made themselves the threat.  Sorry, but we didn't just make a movie about 9/11.  It really happened.  People really died.  Do you watch the news?  Very few countries in the world aren't fighting some kind of war.  We don't have to make up any kind of controversy.
786568
NO!\nAnd the only people who claim the U.S. government was involved in 9/11 are MUSLIMS who are trying to fix their public relations problem!\nNotice all the websites with false claims to the origins of 9/11 come from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt, and other Muslim countries.  These people are simply trying to deflect their guilt by shifting the blame to the Americans, the Israelis, and anyone else whom they hate.
133821
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
595073
Some people think 9/11 was a purposeful choice when choosing when to attact the World Trade Center because across America we use 9-1-1 when there is an emergency.  My own opinion is that it was a coincidence.  I guess no one will ever know for sure.
692598
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.
657727
Did you know that George Bush has been planning to invade Iraq since he was in college. He killed several Americans cuz he wanted revenage.\n\nOf course 9/11 was planned, what better way to start a presidency and try to make himself look good.\n\nThe World Trade Center was built to handle a plane crashing into it. The only damage a plane would do is maybe take out the top two levels of the building, not the whole thing. They had planted explosives in the basement of the World Trade Center and detonated them when the planes collided with the building. If the explosives werent in the basement then the towers would not of fell to pieces with just a plane hitting it.\n\nThey removed the scrapes from the rubble, which to us would be known as evidence cuz they didnt want us knowing the real truth of what really happend. If they kept the scrapes and ran tests on the metals, you would know that something else made the towers coming crashing down.\n\nBush's father was having a meeting with the Bin Ladens down the street the same day the World Trade Center went down. Bush's family is friends with the Bin Ladens. So his excuse for blaming Osma Bin Laden was a lame excuse.\n\nIt definately was a set up. One big conspiracy.
944711
No, it has never been proven that Iraq had anything to do with the 9/11 attack.  On the other hand we know that  Saudi Arabians made up the majority of those actually involved in the attacks that awlful day.  Our invasion of Iraq has cost the USA many of our sons and daugthers lives and wounded thousands, changing their lives forever, on top of that thousands of Iraq's citizens have been killed and thousands have fled their homeland since we went in to make their lives BETTER....  Now we have created a terrorist haven and brought Iraq to the point of civil war and the present administration does not have a clue as to how this all can be resolved.  They had done so little research about Iraq that they thought we would be welcomed as liberating heroes and the battle would be over when we stopped bombing.  Now three years later the situation in Iraq is worse not better.  What a mess!!
1077136
Why ask? You don't even believe 9/11 happened the way it did and you apparently don't respond well to questions as to what you do believe happened. \n\nAs to this question, absolutely it should have been responded to exactly the way it was except that our government should stop worrying about what liberals say and carry out the war with all the necessary force. Further, I just don't understand why some believe that Saddam Hussein or the Taliban is so much preferred to the U.S. democratic political system. That's what we know so that's what we teach. Seems to have served you well.
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
977813
Because they believe the lies.  They don't bother to do their own research.  They just believe what the President and FOX News tells them.\n\nThey ignore the fact that the person responsible for 9/11 is still at large.  They ignore the fact that we are still YEARS behind in translating all of that "terrorist wiretapping."  They ignore the fact that we are burning bridges with the rest of the world and generating more anti-American sentiment.
1035301
I can think of a few reasons regarding the war in Iraq:\n\n-  Violations of 17 U.N. resolutions\n-  Violations of human rights\n-  Massacre of hundreds of thousands of Kurds\n-  Demonstrated the use of chemical weapons\n-  Financed terrorist factions in other Middle Eastern countries\n-  Rewarded suicide bombers' families\n-  Shot at our planes patrolling the no-fly zones\n-  Invaded Kuwait\n\nThe case for Iraq can be argued on many fronts.  Only those that forget the attrocities of the Baath regime and the importance to fight state-sponsored terrorism allow themselves to be persuaded from one side of the issue to the other.  In the days and weeks that followed 9/11, you had a different mindset.  It's no excuse to falter from that just because months and years have gone by.  For all you know, the aggression our country has shown in response is the reason why you haven't had to go through another horrific ordeal.\n\nAs for the North Korea comparison...\n\nIt is a separate issue for many reasons.  You must deal with nations that already possess nuclear weapons on a different scale.  No matter how contradictory this may seem, there aren't any other good options.  It must be a slow but strong diplomatic process that exercises all of its power before any military option is considered.  In most cases, the preemption measure will never be considered.  This is where an attack must be the reason to go to war.\n\n\nkiko,\nDon't give into the oil conspiracy.  From your brief response, it seems like you're one of the sensible Democrats that can listen to reason.  For the record, I haven't seen the price of gasoline drop at the pump.  In fact, it has risen more than 25% since the Iraq war started.  Plus, we're not staying in Iraq.  It is nothing more than an assumption we are there for that reason.  \n\nYou should focus more of your "intelligent" intuitiveness into arguing valid points of the war.  Even as a staunch Republican, I can admit that there were some serious mistakes made in this war.  But at the same time, I can see that there's only so much you can predict and expect to be perfect.  We are all human after all.
197982
For the same reason that FDR did not react to numerous warnings that the Japanese were planning an attack on Pearl Harbor. Bush knew that an attack would spawn massive public out cry that would make it easy for him to sell his ideas of invading Iraq. It's well documented that a plan for invading Iraq was well underway long before 9-11. What they didn't anticipate was the magnitude of the 9-11 attacks. Or possibly they did but I'm not that cynical. I think it's the reason why Bush sat so long after he got news of the attacks. He was stunned that "it actually happened..." Everyone has had that moment were we knew something bad was coming but you're still shocked when it arrives. It becomes real. That was Bush's moment of realization.\n\nAnd if you think about it - 9-11 gave Bush everything. The plan - or lack of planning in spite of being warned - actually worked.
881372
Ever seen video of 9/11? There's obviously bombs on each floor of the building and you can see them explode. A plane hitting a building that big will not knock it over. Even if the plane could knock over the building, the towers fell straight down and not to the side like they should've if the planes made them fall. It was obviously an inside job. They wanted to scapegoat someone to start a war. The United States government is making a fortune from the war. No doubt that in agreeing to be scapegoated, Bin Laden made a fortune and is probably making money off the production of weapons for the Islam side. However, most of the weapons used against the United States are bought from the United States. The US was so sure that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction because the US sold them those weapons after the Vietnam war.  \nI think it is patriotic to ask questions of the government. However, every American has gun in case they need to have a revolution to overthrow the government. Why hasn't there been a mass uprising to overthrow the current government?