who knows when the iraq war started?

Our conflict with Iraq started August 2nd, 1990, when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. There was a 12 year cease fire agreement, that Saddam did not live up to, so the fight resumed in March of 2003.

Here’s my understanding: After 9/11- America had to protect its self from getting hit again- Iraq (at the time) posed the greatest threat. America gave weapons of mass destruction to Saddam Hussein in the 80's to fight Iran. This is a well documented event. At the time he was on our side and he used those weapons against Iran (In the Iran/Iraq war.) After the war he used it on this own people (because they wanted independence from Iraq and opposed him.) He gassed them. Now that he wasn’t on our side anymore, America must have known the exact quantities we gave him initially. Plus he was manufacturing weapons on his own. Some people forget that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons before Israel bombed those facilities. (This happened in the early 80’s.) Well there were reports that terrorists were training in Iraq. The US must have been scared that he could potentially give these weapons to these terrorists. Thus escalating Iraq’s threat. The terrorists that attacked us were Saudi. We all know Saudi Arabia is the biggest exported of oil in the world. Also Saudi Arabia has the most fundamental extremists (Wahabists) they are the ones that spread this terroristic message. They are the scum that continues to plan attacks against us. Could the USA go after Saudi Arabia? Of course not. Why -OIL. The US is dependant on that Saudi oil. So if we look at that region, what other country has the reserves to replenish the oil if we don’t buy Saudi oil? (ANSWER- Iraq- they have the 2nd largest oil reserves in the world.) SO if America can take away the threat from Saddam potentially giving chemical weapons to terrorists and install a puppet government that is Pro America, then we could strong arm Saudi Arabia when dealing with extreme Islam. Unfortunately unless we lessen our dependence with our enemy (Saudi Arabia) they will continue to be the base of Islamic terrorists. America had to go in Iraq- hopefully our boys will be given better "rules on engagement". Currently the pentagon is handcuffing our boys. Thus why we are dieing out there. Let them do their job. (Bomb them into submission!) This is why we are in Iraq.

Tired Trucker got this one right for sure. This all started in 90' then for those of you that consider 12 years of dimplomacy a "Rush to War".

there was many votes leading up to the invasion, he was probably talking about those votes

it started in the end of march of o3 i was feet down on the ground on April 15 03 about 2 and a half weeks later with the 3rd ACR

who where not scheduled to go but our battalion commander threw a fit and lobbied for us to go so he could finally get a combat patch for his generals check list. so their goes another 100 million for our deployment

At THIS point, don't you think it's just alittle MORE Important about when the War ENDS- than what someone said before half the people in the Country were Born ??! You can "get REAL" at ANY time- you know! :0

yes it started in 03',but deliberation on wether we should go to war or not was taking place back in 02'

It is not hard to understand... He is a left wing loonie... even his buddies over at The New Yorker know it... Thankfully they are portraying him realistically...

Typical politician doing anything to get the vote...

So much for change...

Let the thumbs reign down in your denial Obamabots...

Which of the 57 states was he representing at that time?

It started under Bush1, was ignored & let fester during Clinton & now it's Bush 2's turn to try to get it under control.

lol, nice one!