What are the facts of the Iraq war?

Question

What are the facts from different perspectives?

What is the moral issue?

How can the issues be resolved?

What is the best moral option?

Answer 1

I can't freely answer to your question

because if I do then all low life they will report me

and my account will be suspended

Americans kill the freedom of speech...

Answer 2

we are killing the he*l out of them

Answer 3

Facts:

1. Saddam Hussein was an evil butcher.

2. His sons were worse than he.

3. The citizens that followed his dictates and promoted his evil were rewarded and were safe. Those who disagreed or were of the wrong ethnic groups were raped, tortured, murdered...... They had NO freedom of speech etc.

4. The U.S.A. supported and used Hussein and Iraq to keep Iran in check after the takeover of Iran by Islamic extremists during the Carter administration.

5. We have YET to learn we should NEVER support a TYRANT, even if it seems to be in our best interests at the time.

6. Eliminating tyrants is good for those people who would otherwise be subjected to a life of enslavement and brutality, but it MUST be done swiftly and thoroughly.

7. No war has ever ended until there was a winner and a looser. The looser MUST surrender under terms dictated by the winner.

8. The U.S.A. has NEVER been an Imperialist nation and has never taken over the lands of another established nation to use them as "slaves" and to rule them to their own ruin.

The U.S.A. is unique in world history for that very reason.

We should NEVER change that fact and should never become a nation that permits tyranny to rule.

9. Tyranny must be fought here at home also. Power corrupts and an overpowering Federal Government will be corrupt and wil be tyrannical.

The Constitution gives power to the individual and severely limits the power of the Federal Government.

We are loosing that. America is slowly becoming a tyranny.

10. Money is power. High taxes take YOUR power and gives it to potential TYRANTS.

11. Never vote for ANYONE who wants to add more power and control to the Government or who wants to raise taxes.  They are tyrants.

Answer 4

The facts are it blew your worldwide alliance against terrorism out of the water, fatally undermined your 'hearts and minds strategy' from the outset and increased terrorism 'exponentially' according to numerous (all I have read) official sources.

The best moral option is hearts and minds - it means winning people over, absolute and total discretion in the use of force, imprisonment over war, law over tyranny, and the impeachment, trial and imprisonment of Bush, Blair and their government sidekicks for a start.

Answer 5

In reality Bush had a 90% approval rating after 911 and most of the American's supported the war on terrorism.

But as the war drug year after year people forgot their patriotic fever and started to question about the cost of American lives and the total cost of the Iraq and Afghastan operation  

What surprised most is GWB got reeleted in a very controversail electon that many people think was crooked.

My personal opinion is the US should have waited until the UN exhausted every measure against Sadaam Huessein as Iraq was posing no immediate threat to anyone.

Hindsight is 20-20 and at the time Iraq was invaded by the US there was many people in favor of this war.

There is no moral issue as the US retaliated against the terrorist but our resources could have been better used if we would have targeted Osama Bin Laden and not Sadaam Hussein.

Answer 6

What are the facts from different perspectives?

Our president who we loved and believed in deceived us.

We went to war under false pretense.

Tony Blair supported us, and now we supplement their gas by $1 each time we pump a gallon of gas.

What is the moral issue?

Murder

How can the issues be resolved?

Remove the party from the white house and change our policies of  deception.

What is the best moral option?

Take responsibility for our actions and require the President to do the same. Move forward operating from a position of strength, unity and power.

Answer 7

Innocent Americans die because of BUSH not knowing how to make decisions

God Bless

Answer 8

The fact is we overreacted. The moral is you should only attack a country that attacked you and YES, you DO wait for proof in the form of a mushroom cloud. That's the compromise we face for freedom and that is, unfortunately, some people overreact to. There will be NO freedom if we continue to assume our enemies are this capable. This war proved that and many young men and women lost their freedom because of the overreaction.

Answer 9

It's illegal, our President committed war crimes and treason.  The troops who go there are violating their oaths of office as well as violating military code of justice and I need the money or I just have to obey orders is not an excuse.  It didn't stop the executions at Nuremberg, it shouldn't excuse you.  Do you job and tell the President to kiss your @55.

Constitution = Supreme law of the land

Constitution says Congress declares war.

War was never declared, they just voted to pay for it.  A formal declaration was never voted on.  Invasion is violating the Supreme law of the land.

You don't need a degree in law to see that.  You just have to read the Constitution that if they felt that a part was unnecessary they would have to vote to change.  Those who ignore the Constitution to fit their purposes (good or bad) are violating the law and should be punished as such.  Do we have the ability to just ignore laws that we feel are unnecessary?  no, then those that we pay to SERVE us do not have that ability.  Government should not be allowed to do something you would not allow your neighbor to do.  I don't want them ignoring laws so neither should our ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES.

Constitution says treason = death

There is my view on it.  Violation of Constitutional law for any reason deserves a trial and if found guilty then death.  It's the law, we follow the law right?  If not then I'm about to start just breaking laws I don't agree with.