What reason have the US soldiers died for (in Iraq)?

Question

please tell me.....

Answer 1

I've been asking myself the same question since my younger son died just north of Baghdad - his squad's Bradley rode out in the middle of the night to check out mortar fire and they all died when their track hit a roadside bomb - three 156mm artillery shells fused together to make a giant land mine.  But a week before he died, he told me he believed in what he was doing.

They died for a number of reasons, none of which look good on a five minute sound bite in the Evening News:

- to depose a murderer and sponsor of terror who was paying Al-Jazeera to use their news reporting to promote terrorism in the Middle East;

- to save several thousand children's lives a month who were starving to death because so much money in the UN's "Oil for Food" program was going in bribes to the UN Secretary-General and his son, to various French and other European politicans and bankers, to buy arms (that was completely forbidden by the UN), to build palaces for Saddam - and whatever little was left after the politicians, guns and palaces were bought went to feed Iraqi children - not enough;

- contrary to popular myth, WMD and components for WMD were found in Iraq - specifically, sarin nerve agent was used by insurgents after we defeated the Iraqi army, probably from ammunition dumps which had sat unguarded long after the Iraqi army surrendered; and several hundred tons of yellowcake uranium - pure uranium ready for processing into the material needed to make nuclear weapons - were found and shipped from Iraq to Canada earlier this year; Iraq is a country the size of California, and the WMD could have been loaded on a few dozen semis and hidden anywhere in that big country, or to neighboring Syria during the 10 - 11 months of delay in the UN before the invasion;

- Captured documents show that Iraqi intelligence was coordinating their activity with the same Islamist terrorists involved in the September 11th 2001 attacks on our country;

- Saddam Hussein murdered his own citizens and those of neighboring countries singly and by the town throughout his political career - having helped him stay in power while he fought Iran in the 1980s, it was our responsibility to take him out of power when his true character became clear in the late 1980s - early 1990s.

- Saddam Hussein was accepting military aid and training from Russia for purposes which now are clearer than they were before the Russian invasion of Georgia - Saddam apparently had agreed to be the Russians' cat's paw in the Persian Gulf;

- Iraq under Saddam Hussein routinely targeted and fired on US, UK and French aircraft patrolling the UN-declared "no-fly zone" and tried to attack helpless civilians living in northern and southern Iraq in a pattern of religious persecution and ethnic cleansing which was as bad if not worse than Darfur (towns having drums of nerve agent and sulfuric acid poured out on them);

- after ten years of sanctions for which we in the US could no longer muster support from our allies, Iraq remained controlled by a man whose own nephew (who ran one of TWO different nuclear weapon development programs in Iran AFTER the first Gulf War in 1990) showed us documents proving that Saddam had no intention whatever of giving up his pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and had publicly threatened to use them on the citizens of the US many times.

I'd say that the above matters taken together were a valid cause of war.

Answer 2

oil and so we can arm and train a muslim military that we "hope" will remain friendly (we supplied arms to Saddam too)

Answer 3

they have created a "front" in which to fight our enemies without having to fight them here.  They have toppled a dictatorship regime and have introduced democracy to a dark part of the earth

Answer 4

The actual reasons...

Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq

Whereas in 1990 in response to Iraq's war of aggression against and illegal occupation of Kuwait, the United States forged a coalition of nations to liberate Kuwait and its people in order to defend the national security of the United States and enforce United Nations Security Council resolutions relating to Iraq;

Whereas after the liberation of Kuwait in 1991, Iraq entered into a United Nations sponsored cease-fire agreement pursuant to which Iraq unequivocally agreed, among other things, to eliminate its nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons programs and the means to deliver and develop them, and to end its support for international terrorism;

Whereas the efforts of international weapons inspectors, United States intelligence agencies, and Iraqi defectors led to the discovery that Iraq had large stockpiles of chemical weapons and a large scale biological weapons program, and that Iraq had an advanced nuclear weapons development program that was much closer to producing a nuclear weapon than intelligence reporting had previously indicated;

Whereas Iraq, in direct and flagrant violation of the cease-fire, attempted to thwart the efforts of weapons inspectors to identify and destroy Iraq's weapons of mass destruction stockpiles and development capabilities, which finally resulted in the withdrawal of inspectors from Iraq on October 31, 1998;

Whereas in 1998 Congress concluded that Iraq's continuing weapons of mass destruction programs threatened vital United States interests and international peace and security, declared Iraq to be in "material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations" and urged the President "to take appropriate action, in accordance with the Constitution and relevant laws of the United States, to bring Iraq into compliance with its international obligations" (Public Law 105-235);

Whereas Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations by, among other things, continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability, actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist organizations;

Whereas Iraq persists in violating resolutions of the United Nations Security Council by continuing to engage in brutal repression of its civilian population thereby threatening international peace and security in the region, by refusing to release, repatriate, or account for non-Iraqi citizens wrongfully detained by Iraq, including an American serviceman, and by failing to return property wrongfully seized by Iraq from Kuwait;

Whereas the current Iraqi regime has demonstrated its capability and willingness to use weapons of mass destruction against other nations and its own people;

Whereas the current Iraqi regime has demonstrated its continuing hostility toward, and willingness to attack, the United States, including by attempting in 1993 to assassinate former President Bush and by firing on many thousands of occasions on United States and Coalition Armed Forces engaged in enforcing the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council;

Whereas members of al Qaida, an organization bearing responsibility for attacks on the United States, its citizens, and interests, including the attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, are known to be in Iraq;

Whereas Iraq continues to aid and harbor other international terrorist organizations, including organizations that threaten the lives and safety of American citizens;

Whereas the attacks on the United States of September 11, 2001 underscored the gravity of the threat posed by the acquisition of weapons of mass destruction by international terrorist organizations;

Whereas Iraq's demonstrated capability and willingness to use weapons of mass destruction, the risk that the current Iraqi regime will either employ those weapons to launch a surprise attack against the United States or its Armed Forces or provide them to international terrorists who would do so, and the extreme magnitude of harm that would result to the United States and its citizens from such an attack, combine to justify action by the United States to defend itself;

Whereas United Nations Security Council Resolution 678 authorizes the use of all necessary means to enforce United Nations Security Council Resolution 660 and subsequent relevant resolutions and to compel Iraq to cease certain activities that threaten international peace and security, including the development of weapons of mass destruction and refusal or obstruction of United Nations weapons inspections in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 687, repression of its civilian population in violati

Answer 5

First off.. they are doing their jobs. There are people who die on their "jobs" everyday.. do you also question the "purpose" behind that? The news is only showing the absolute negative and our soldiers have done a wonderful job helping the people in Iraq make a better life for themselves. It's going to take time..as does anything. Saddam is gone and that's a victory in itself.  

Answer 6

Honestly, if you have figured out by now, anything I say will not sink in to enlighten you.

Answer 7

they did remove an oppressive dictator that was killing his own people...that's one big reason.

Answer 8

Because that's an unfortunate part of their job (better to kill the EC's) and for their fellow Soldiers, Marines, Sailors, and Airmen.

Answer 9

I know you're going to get "9/11" or "freedom" responses here.  However, if people did their research they would discover that the war has nothing to do with either of those issues. Why do people associate this war with Iraq?  Easy, they are dumb.

Answer 10

they didn't die for the president, not the iraqi's,not the oil, h**l not even their commanders, they fight and die for their brothers on the left and right of them. that is the only thing that mattered.  i didn't fight for my country i fought for the safety of my brothers that were there on the left and right of me. that is the only thing you think of over there.   and they all died hero's

Answer 11

For giving 26 million Iraqi's a better future, a prosperous and democratic future. Free of violence, terrany and evil, as well as safe haven's for terrorists. There might be problems now, but this is short term, in the long term, a stable country will emerge and will be a contribution to the world. Just like Japan and Germany, it was hard at first, but it turned into something great.

Answer 12

Well its pretty simple really!

US soldiers died in Iraq so you can sit home and stuff your festering gob with twinkies further adding to this country's obesity problem and also....so you can spend your time doing whatever you wish! Which mostly consists of asking stupid questions and complaining about a war that you know nothing about!

Have a nice day!

Love,

Tim Tim

Answer 13

You people have short memories. Twin towers, Pentagon, airplanes. Three thousand women, children, and men died. Duh!

Answer 14

How exactly does one "research" a motive? Soldiers volunteered to go to Iraq because they believed that they were making America a safer place to live. Whether or not that was actually the case is another question for another time.

Answer 15

i think this question is a little rude but ill answer it anyway. i know my brother died for the same reason why i joined the army. for the friends and family we love. for the brothers and sisters next to us in iraq. thats all that matters to people. the people they love and who they are fighting for.