How did Operation Iraqi Freedom, turn into The War in Iraq?

Specifically went out of their way to paint a picture? Where did you get this from?

Not disagreeing with you, just wondering if that statement can be backed up with proof.


Personally I think it was one big cover up, President Bush was scared of Hussein, and used the most logical cover up - He knew that the Iraqi's would not like foreigners trying to control their country, which would eventually give him a reason to make a 'war on Iraq'.

 

peace and order i dont think so , bush is oil hungry.

true ture

exactly , and the only reason the middle east had wepons was because we sold them to them after rr, was elected. the whole war on terror is tottal bullshit , osama isnt a fucking threat he is a painting over what is really going on.
the war continues so haliburtain gets paid to rebuild what we destroy , the whole war is revoled around the process of making money because verysignle governtment is corrupt everyone is office is only in shit for moeny and greed.

 

For you that don't know what you're talking about.. (most of you..)
We are only in Iraq now to help keep there government supported from a large terrorist group. If they were to leave the group would take over, and make a authoritarian dictatorship.

FUCK BUSH!
-Freedom of Speech-

 

its all about oil.... but ive heard we found the biggest oil thingamobobber in Canada 0.o not 100% positive tho

 

You think Bush, the president of one of the world's most powerful nations, was scared of Saddam Hussein? Boy, that doesn't even make sense. Even to an idiot, you think a ruler of a 300+ million country would scared of a 27+ million country? Use your brain. You fell for a hallucination Bush wasn't even trying to trick you into.

Clearly, you're the one who's confused.

EDIT: Population source: cia.gov

 

So the statement made by shredderbeam, was a lie? If he didn't have WMD why would they lie about it? Why would he invade Iraq?

I take it back from being scared, but he was doing this in fear something would happen.

 

They said they went in there for nukes that the Iraqis supposedly had, but even if they didn't have nukes, which they didn't, we had to go in there because Hussain was killing too many people and he was invading Kuwait for no reason at all, just to pick on them because they're smaller.

 

OIL PLZ! That's why I believe it started

 

The US rejects it's own values which it held up at the Nuremburg Trials when they prosecuted leading Nazis for crimes such as supporting aggression and preemptive war. We were lied to before, during and after the war. The flimsy legal reasoning for the war could be picked apart by a child. The US violated the UN charter by simply starting the war.

The Iraqis sure as hell didn't have nukes, and we knew it. You mean "WMDs". We sold Iraq WMDs before, knew that the chemical/biological weapons Saddam had had a short shelf-life (i.e. would have been mostly expired) and also couldn't be a threat to the mainland US.
Furthermore, Hussein had killed relatively few people in the decade before the invasion. When the real massacres (of the Kurds) went on, we were on Saddam's side, we knew he was doing it and we helped him.

The real reason for going in was to get control of the region and it's oil reserves.

Operation Iraqi Freedom turned into the War In Iraq because sectarian violence erupted after the war.

 

1 word : MONEY

 

BUSH SUCKS
Nuff said

 

Oh yeah, that's exactly what they're there for... >_>

After Iran built walls so the Afghani's and the Pakistani's couldn't go in without a visa (illegally) then the U.S. waited for all of the Terrorists to go into Iraq, so they could trap them there, and take them all out. But it failed epicly, and now stealing oil is the main concern. You can watch videos, read articles, and all of them say that was the "reason" but somehow "turned" to stealing oil, but since they don't take account for the oil, and just say they are getting more and more oil out of Alaska and other states, no one questions it. There is/was proof a long time ago that Iraq never even had a WMD plan going on, and still they used that as an excuse. Bush thinks Iran (one of the leading oil holders in the world) has a WMD program, even though CIA intelligence states that they ceased the Nuclear process 4 years ago. Bush still thinks that they are dangerous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F1HiEBensE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJWcoDBbSzE

I honestly thought/think that Bush is just a puppet, but whatever.

I thought this to be a very interesting video, and a lot of people will still bitch that it's all a lie, but whatever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9T71XdydmE

 

i have one thing to say, what happened to WMD's?

 

I think this image pretty much sums it up.

 

I love how everyone who is against the war always decides to say Bush is retard who is solely responsible for the war and must take every ounce of blame.

Don't get me wrong I know he had a very large hand in the war because he controls the military however it was most of the democrats who wanted to go to war before things got messed up over there. Operation Iraqi freedom was the name entitled to our efforts in taking down Sadam and offering the people of Iraq freedom from the mass genocide Sadam was bringing on his own people. After that was taken care of we ended up staying in even longer because pulling out at that time would have cause everything we accomplished to collapse and allow a new dictator to take place so we attempted to give them even more help with a vote and all for a new leader. If the new Iraqi government had done any work in the past few years then we would be able to start pulling out but right now all they are doing is letting the American's run things without bothering to work on creating a good stable military to take its place. As time progressed it began to be called the War in Iraq since technically the Iraqis had their freedom it was just a pathetic form of freedom. Also now that it is being called the war in iraq the democrats are able to say I never supported the war in iraq even though they were all for it in the very beginning, just because it technically wasn't the war in iraq when we first went in.

 

You mean freedom from the Kurdish genocide of the 1980s?

Ah, I see, so instability in Iraq is caused by Iraqis not trying hard enough

 

We aren't killing Iraqi's. Were training, and liberating them.

The terrorists are not Iraqi's, they're Iranians, Afghani's, etc, going into Iraq, and attacking us. And we're still helping them. It's just called the War, because we're fighting.

 

It's not a war. A Declaration of War has to be passed by Congress and on a legitimate country. This same situation was what Vietnam was all about. Except switch Communism for Terrorists, Radical-Muslims, etc.etc. I wonder how alike they'll be?