When the US didn't find any WMDs why did it still invade Iraq and is still there 7 years later?

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And why did it kill Sadam Hussein who had one of the most democratic nations in the middle east, second only to Israel?

Answer 1

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George W Bush and the blind GO P that follow him

Answer 2

Because the US Armed Forces were hired by OJ to find Nicole's killer...Next stop, Pakistan.

Answer 3

I hate to say it, but unless you are a OIF veteran who actually put his/her boots on the ground in iraq, than you have no business talking about what was/was not found in Iraq. I, for one, can attest that my unit fouind, on three seperate occassions, stores of chemical weapons, which, according to both U.S. and International definitions, are Weapons of Mass Destruction. In fact, I now present VIDEO EVIDENCE of WMDs found in Iraq:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g4VMEReI...

Now, before you discredit all combat vets and call all of us liars and pawns in "Bush's private war", remember how many of us lost our lives trying to prevent the terrorists from getting their hands on this stuff and using it against you while you are in school learning your liberal, leftist, conspiracy-theorist ideas.

Answer 4

Because Bush wanted to make some quick cash by handing out contracts to his buddies. Bush and his VP used their 8 years (how he got 8 i should never know) to make as much money for haliburton etc as they could before getting out.

Answer 5

You have to understand that the UN gave Saddamn 8-months warning, 8-months!  That gave him enough time to hide them and what-not.  I was part of the invasion of Iraq in 2003.  We found many facilities that was manned by the Amn-Al-Khass, their Intelligence Agency of the Regime.  There was many indications that they had NBC weapons, but no proof because we went in 8-months after the UN gave him the warning.  I don't care what media said, he was collaborating with black marketing about WMDs.  Even the CIA said that we made a mistake of invading but had full intention that they existed beforehand.  We walked into many compounds that were lead-walled and pro-efficient in manufactoring chemical weapons.  Come on now, Saddam used it against the Kurds!  But suddenly after UN warning and the US Invasion, they all disappear?  I remember as a Marine that we had a Health and Comfort Inspection, looking for liqour and p**n in our barracks, totally illegal in our possession, but our Seniors gave us a day warning.  So many of us Marines would hide them and stash them.  By the time the Inspection came through, we were clean.  Now take that in Saddam and UN's plan!  You have to understand that UN cannot be trusted by their word.  You are only taking the word of the UN, in a book!  iMany lives were sentenced because of the UN, remember General Kofi?  he had so many bad ties, he actually called of the war missile that was to destory Osama bin Laden when we demanded his head on a platter!  Remember that child prostitution and Food-for-Oil scandal that the UN was involved with? Yes, the CIA made a mistake on poor intelligence, because they had no reliable intelligence, p**s poor intelligence, but not infeasible intelligence.  They didn't monitor enough to what happened over there.  I ensure that we comb the desert (which we won't-it'll cost billions upon billions to do so), we'll find something, or search Syria, the only ally of Saddam.  Iran hated Iraq and Saddam, no bother there!

Answer 6

It's called war profits young lady. The bigger the war the more weapons used the bigger the profit. This war was purely for profit and hardly anything else. If you believe that tale about spreading freedom and democracy then you're just falling for the biggest con job around in a long time...

Answer 7

Oil, Money, power the same thing its always about

First of all OLDmarine - you are an imbicile - no WMDs are found try watching something other than Faux news..

Any body who cares to do a little research will find this.

We had 36 CIA operatives working in all levels of the Iraqi government - they unanimously reported back Sadaam lacked the capacity to produce Bio and Chem weapons aftter 1995 - the embargos worked. Chem weapons have a shelf life of 3 years and bio weapons (think Flu vcaccicne) has a shelf life of 6 months. So at the latest any weapons were only weaponizable up to 1998, we invaded in 2003 long after those weapons were defunct

Answer 8

  You're right, we never should have invaded Iraq on such trumped up reasons, as we knew they had no wmd's.  Now for those that still believe the brainwashing they received about wmd's, we only found highly degraded canisters of poison gas, that in spite of rules by the Geneva Convention, we of the UNited States, supplied to Saddam in his war with Iran, these were the only thing found that could be considered WMD's.

  And to clear the record regarding Saddam, we killed more of his innocent civilians than he was accused of.

  Get your facts straight on Israel, as it is not by any stretch a democratic government, not by a long shot.

Answer 9

Sadam Hussein had one of the most democratic nations in the middle east? What? Please research a little more on his history and tyranny.

Answer 10

Well I see you are misinformed. WMD's were found, both biological and chemical and some still intact on warheads. What you don't watch your precious CNN that reported it? The Iraqi people and their government killed Saddam, you have a problem with it take it up with them!

Answer 11

Poor Uninformed soul....

Hans Blix reported finding WMD and other WMD related programs in Iraq in 2003....

http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/Bx27.htm

We invaded for many reasons, not just WMD..all reasons were just and legit...

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/...

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/08/w...

A great expose here....

http://www.samanthaburns.com/archives/20...

Answer 12

We fought Germany in the 40's.

We still have bases in Germany, Italy, UK, Spain.

We fought Korea in the 50's.

We still have bases in S. Korea.

Do you see a pattern?

Answer 13

Yes by most deomcratic you mean forced people to vote for him or death to their family, thats how I want the US to be ran actually. (-eye roll-)

the US did not sentence Saddam to die, we didn't even hold his trial the Iraqi Interm Government did which consisted of 5 Iraqi judges during the Iraqi Special Tribunal.

It has not been 7 years since we went into iraq, we went into Iraq in 2003.  We are still there because we are now for the most part rebuilding the country and training the iraqi forces to be able to handel problems on their own.  Parts of the country are now being turned back over to total control by Iraq. Anbar was turned over last week and a few more are almost ready to be turned over.

Answer 14

Iraq was by no means one of the most democratic nations in the middle east, Saddam was a tyrannical thug.

However you are correct, I have not heard one good answer as to why the U.S. invaded. There has never been a single WMD found in Iraq (poster above me who has no clue, watch this video for an education from your president).

People were afraid after 9/11 and the administration played on those fears to do something it had wanted to do for a long time.