Why there is a war in Iraq?
476921
The answer is all in Third  question in your Question.Now people need to ask why are they.Then go looking for the answer.It would take at least 10hrs of typing,that's at 60 words per minute,to just to begin to explain what all this Bush Bunch is about,who they are and what they are up to.\nIf you will just take the responsibility of your freedoms,and beguine to question and do research to find the answers,You will Quickly see why some of us are so angry.
237032
because of money. War creates jobs and keeps people in power. It's a smoke screen to other problems and you can not impeach a president at a time of war.
568452
I think the war in Iraq is a failure of the Bush adminastration. Iraqi's are engaged in a civil war and we are in the middle of it. Only way out is to get out and let them settle for themselves. I always wondered how many repugs were acturally fighting in the war. Now I know. It is a shame.
151316
Okay I can't speak for Bush and I don't agree with the war but the reason people are dying in iraq is because the american soilders just want to get home alive so they shoot first and ask question second..Its not just iraqis dying over there you know.\nI'm pretty sure most american value lives over oil but then again we don't really control our country big buisness do..
69335
This is a difficult question. Even though President Bush is a bungling fool who started a war for profits, we are now part of the war. Although I believe we need to get our troops put, we can't yet. This is because of the fact that Iraq still does not have a stable government. If we left now, another dictator could take over, and do more damage than has already been done to Iraq.
122731
A better question would be why we're in Iraq in the first place.\n\nI still don't know.
1092788
There are many wrong reasons that we went to war.  Private Miliraty Firms and Contractors that poach from the military ranks and gouge the government. Lives are being lost so coffers can get full....it is tragically wrong.
787527
The war in Iraq is a smokescreen war, kind of like the Spanish-American war. It's for oil. First they said WoMD, then it was destroying Saddam Hussein's tyranny over the people, and now 'rebuilding'. They didn't really expect the war to go on this long, but it has.\n\nA smokescreen war is a war where they put up 'smokescreens' or reasons to justify the war. Things to make it look like the war was necessary
1037508
The reason why we went to war in Afghanistan is that we are trying to get Osama bin Laden.\nThe reason we went to war in Iraq? "Oil"
168596
There has never been a war where some unwanted terrible things don't happen.  These things come from both sides in a war.  People get mad and get upset about it, yet it still happens in all wars.  We do have rules that Nations are supposed to follow during times of war with each other and for the most part they are followed.  Today in Iraq we are not fighting against any Army of Iraq, only against those who are fighting in the insurgency and these are Muslim's Killing Muslim's.  Kidnapping non-combatants and holding for ranson, the terroristic threats against people's rights, Shame on you too!
447450
Depending on who you listen to, there are several reasons. I shall attempt to run them down & provide a brief explanation of each, and state my own opinion at the end.\n\n1. Oil. The US needs a source of oil, so we invaded Iraq to get it.\n2. Big Business - The US needed a way to boost the profit lines of big business, and war is the best way to do it.\n3. Freedom - We needed to free the Iraqi's from Saddam's thumb.\n4. WMD's - Saddam had WMD's, he refused to let the UN make inspections, and it's too risky to let Saddam have WMD's.\n5. New Base Location - Iraq makes a great place to project power from in terms of the US military, it is adjacent to the Gulf, and provides ways to reinforce Turkey, as well as keep Iran in check.\n6. Violation of Gulf War cease-fire agreement - Iraq violated the cease-fire agreement of the 1st gulf war, so this war is simply a conclusion of the last war.\n7. Bush's daddy - Saddam tried to kill Bush Sr., so Bush Jr is seeking revenge.\n8. Terrorism - Saddam was conspiring with Osama, so the US had to intervene.\n\nAnd my opinion:\nBush Jr. was obsessed with Iraq, and decided long ago that he was going to end Saddam's rule. He found a reason, Saddam didn't back down, and now we're in Iraq.\n\nHope this helps as a general overview.
687160
A war is a prolonged engagement between two military powers.  For example, I consider Vietnam a war because the US and the South Vietnamese militaries were fighting the Vietcong and the North Vietnamese militaries.  Same with the current Iraq War, two forces, prolonged engagement.  An example for a conflict is the Somalia incident back in 1991 (remember Blackhawk Down?)  Warlords over threw Somalia's government and the US and allies went in for humanitarian aid.  It was a reletively short engagement, making it a conflict.  Thats how I define wars from conflicts, but I suppose the official way is whether or not Congress declares war. (If they do, its a war.  if not, its a conflict)
1074205
If our actions in Iraq are not a war then that event in the Pacific in the 40s was not a war. Japan attacked without declaring war.\n\nA war is a war....and we should face up to the fact that we invaded Iraq...not for the people of Iraq but for america
733247
Tough question considering that they war on terror is not technically supposed to be a war against any certain nation yet we focus on the middle east and its extremist religions. The Iraqi forces are having trouble organizing because of the sectarian nature of the population. This seems to me like it would provide a great and easy avenue for the organized entrance into our nation of small coordinated covert extremist terrorist groups. I hate to say it.
196639
Wars happen for two reasons.\n\n1. To expand power.\n2. To protect existing power.\n\nAny other reasons given are what we tell ourselves to make us feel better.
1044461
US is not at war with Iraq and had never been\n\nBe it desert storm or the recent compaign, both are aimed at Saddam and his followers, and to free the Iraqi people from the dictator.
828743
There never really was a war in Iraq. There is only American intervention. The idea of an Iraqi war was a marketing campaign executed by Bush to stir up feelings of patriotism, really. Patriotism gets Presidents re-elected. So does xenophobia. So does war in the name of Jesus....