Anyone with George W. Bush's desicison to go to war? Explaination please?

President made his case (and it wasn't lies) and Congress voted overwhelming in favor of taking military action against Saddam Hussein and his military. That is important to remember. We did not go to war against the Iraqi people. Our bombings were measured and targeted against command and control targets. The "lies" are works of fiction. George Bush did not say that Saddam was an iminent threat, but that he could not wait until he could become an iminent threat. Saddam had violated on multiple occassions the cease fire terms that he had signed. He sent fighters to attack one of our ships (the USS Stark) and 37 sailors died. He held one of our pilots after the Gulf War and he has since disappeared. Saddam attempted to assassinate an ex president. Any one of these is grounds for war! No one said that Saddam had nuclear weapons but that he was working on them. Saddam did have nerve and bio agents. After the Gulf war inspectors found that Saddam's nuclear program was more advanced than anyone had suspected. People who thought that Saddam had the goods: William Jefferson Clinton (1998 speech), Al Gore Jr., John F. Kerry (who said that we should go it alone if necessary), John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, and most of the intelligent agencies of the world including Mossad and the Russians.

Yes, I supported the decision to go into Iraq for several reasons. For one thing, Saddam Hussein had violated the terms of the cease fire many times. The UN said many times that they wanted Saddam to follow the terms, or else. The UN said that so many times that even they didn't believe it. That right there was enough for me to believe that we were justified in going in. However, after we were attacked on 9/11, suddenly everyone was not quite so sure what was going on over there. Eventually, people began to suspect that Saddam still had the capacity to manufacture and deliver WMD's (especially since he had used them before). Also, there was no exact knowledge of what he was doing in regards to terrorism. The US was concerned that we would be attacked by more terrorists and that Saddam would very likely be involved in supporting that. Therefore, the congress voted to give the president authorization to wage war and that is what he did. Now looking back, we realize that not all of the concerns were as bad as they looked then, but now that we have invaded and rid Iraq of Saddam, we are desperately trying to stabilize the country to give them the opportunity to live in a country free from oppression and religious fanaticism. Only time will tell if we can do this before the liberals force us to give up.

Let us not forget that congress and the senate voted overwhelmingly to authorize the use of force. So the decision was fully supported by a large majority of our legislature as well.

The main justification for renewed hostilities is because after Saddam repeatedly violated the terms of the cease fire he agreed to in 1991 it was well past time to finish the job.

There are many other ancillary reasons such as weapons of mass destruction. That Iraq had used them in the past, that there was intelligence that they still had them and that they would seek more in the future.

That Iraq supported terrorism by offering the families of suicide bombers $25,000 for successful missions.

To remove the dictatorship in Iraq and give the people the opportunity of a democratically elected government.

You will hear many people try to say these are all lies but they are just trying to justify their own views. Everything can be verified and the intelligence was believed to be accurate at the time.

Yes- I do support the fact that we went to war what I do not support is the pretenses we went to war for. What people do not realize is that Saddam, although a ruthless dictator to his own people, had lost the power his country had once had prior to his invasion of Kuwait. This is where a little history comes into play. Iraq and Iran had been at war for years in the 80's. It ended with an uneasy truce. It was at this time, Iraq had focused its attention on its neighbor to the south...Kuwait. When they invaded, the Worlds attention focused on Iraq and even after Desert Storm, Saddam still stood in power and he was always a focus of attention. That worked for Iran because they now could rebuild their strength and without attnetion from the rest of the world.

What I am getting at is this. Iraq was not the target of War. It was the buffer zone to halt a bigger disaster. Had the U.S. not invaded Iraq, Iran was poised to invade Iraq. If they had done so, hey would have been successful because the U.S. and Coalition forces could not deploy enough/ fast enough to counter act the invasion and in doing so, Iran now would be within striking distance of Israel and it is no secret how they feel about Israel. Intel photos have shown this. Also, realize this. When the U.S. invaded Iraq, out of the blue suddenly Iran says it is Nuclear Capable. That does not take months to develop, it takes years....the years that have gone by since the truce of the Iran/Iraq war. It was in Iran's best interest to keep it secret, but now with the U.S. on Iran's doorstep, they had to come out as a counter balance.

This is something the U.S. could not come forward and say to justify invading Iraq just to counteract Iran. A story had to be created. It had to be "spun." My thing is, create a better story.

Fight the terrorist in their back yard , not ours !! You can take note that if you think by leaving Iraq , that all will be well , you have another thought coming . The terrorist are here already in the USA ,and if you keep up with the news about Fort Dix in New Jersey , you should know we are going to have to fight them here or there . For the moment we have their attention in their back yard .If you will take the time to pull up all of the Congressional speeches & votes on going to Iraq , you will find out that the vast majority of them believed the same info; about weapons of mass destruction being there. Pull up especially all the democrats speeches saying that Saddam Hussein had to be stopped . So we went !! Now read what the flip floppers are saying ? President Bush has stuck with the decision he started with , unlike the liberals now that claim they didn`t support the war . Just pull up their names and click on " speeches made about removing Hussein ' !!! President Bush has stood his ground against the terrorist , the liberal bias` media , and all the liberal traitors in Congress. You will never have both sides of a situation unless you look at both sides for yourself , and not believe everything you see and hear in the N.Y. "crimes" & CBS, ABC , NBC.. All have lied , all have have gotten caught , see ya Dan Rather ! The NY Crimes giving sensitive information in their *** wipe paper about how our homeland security was finding out how the terrorist were shifting funds from the middle east to banks here in America to finance local terror cells in the USA !! They should be tried for treason ! The terrorist have told you that they want to kill as many American men , women , and children as possible !!What makes you think leaving Iraq will stop their world conquest in the name of allah , WHETHER WE ARE IN IRAQ OR NOT ????

The lie (argument) was that Iraq possessed chemical, biological, possibly even nuclear weapons, and that Iraq was somehow involved with the 9-11 attack. We had to launch a pre-emptive strike against any possible future or present threat to prevent a re-occurrence of 9-11. The same logic that said we should have launched an all-out nuclear attack on the Russians in Cuba and that there would be no response. Oh, almost forgot; after the first excuses were exposed it shifted and became a matter of freedom for the Iraqi people. I believe that is what we were told.

Yes. And I do NOT support an early withdrawal of our troops, nor do I support a dangerous decrease in the number of troops. The job isn't finished yet. If we leave now we leave a void that Al Qaida will swarm in to fill. Is that what you want?

Plenty of people with that decision:

Terrorists; the place has become the centre for world terrorism and killing US troops.

War profiteers; armament manufacturers, logistics companies, security companies and their shareholders.

you'll have to ask a Republican.

Intelligent people know the war was based on a mountain of lies told to get control of Iraq's oil fields.

was your homework due five years ago?