Why US invaded IRAQ ? even now there is no masskilling weapons found.then why army is still there?

Question

oil price rise due to that war is not coming down even now

Answer 1

Just because they weren't found, doesn't mean that they didn't exist.  Blame it on the UN.  They gave Saddam a 8-month warning about the UN inspection (an 8-month warning)  Actually, 9-month.  I was with Task Force Tarawa already on ship in the Persian Gulf.  Now, Pres. Bush was nice since he gave Saddam a one month extension (We originally supposed commense the invasion in Feb of 2003, but postponed to Mar 2003).  We Marines found many indications of WMD.  But gone!  Now, blame that on the CIA, due to unreliable intel.  It was the UN that has told Bush to invade!  So, he acted on instinct of the command of the Secretary-General Kofi (I still hate the UN).  So, since we relied Intel from the CIA (bad mistake!), we look like the idiots! (as always!).  If only we were to infiltrate the HQ of the Amn-Al-Khass!  Those b-a-stards!  Nobody gave the word.  Especially like when bin Laden was hiding out in Indonesia.back in 2004.  The CIA had something to do with that too (I believe) .  But no!  They obviously didn't consider him important to take out.  Come on now, we have SOFLAMs in our arsenal!  The issued word was not given!

I am glad that the oil prices are not lowering.  Maybe this will convince the truth to those knuckleheads that believe we invaded for the oil.  Like I always say, if we are there for the oil, why is is still rising?  USA wouldn't be able to touch it anyway, the UN will take demand of it and do with it they want!  Let them have it, We Americans didn't care for it anywy.  That was only in the interest of these d**n politicians!  Anybody recall that 'Food for Oil' scandal?  What a JOKE!!  How embarrasing!

Answer 2

As most of the posters have pointed out- oil.

We're using more oil than ever before & there are finite supplies. Whoever has their hands on the oil is in a better position to fight for more (think Mad Max on a massive scale with high-tec weaponry (no nukes though- think of the oil!) but without the costumes).

The US is still producing oil, they just use more than ever before. Their demand outstripped their homegrown supply sometime in the 70s (as did Britains), so they're net importers of oil.

If the supply is threatened, they'll hurt (as Russia was doing to the gas supply to some of its neighbours last year), so everyone wants to ensure they have a good supply. If you've got a puppet government who owes you, they'll be more likely to produce as much as you want at the price you want to pay.

That's why there was a war.

That's also why Russia was so keen to plant a flag in antarctica (there's oil there as well) & the US is not very keen on making parts of Alaska nature reserves.

It's not just fuel for vehicles- it's plastics that are at stake.

I can imagine a world with electric cars, it's a lot harder to imagine one without plastic.

Answer 3

WMD were never a factor. There were 4 reasons for the war in Iraq

1) Oil. Iraq has it, America wants it

2) Politics. Iraq was openly defying the US and this made the US look weak, Bush couldn't afford this after 9/11

3) Revenge. Many Americans STILL believe that Iraq was involved in 9/11

4) Force projection. America needed more bases in the Middle East to fight other wars, Iraq is now the world's biggest US aircraft carrier.

Answer 4

John McCain said that the war was about oil.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0GWoxbMs...

Answer 5

Some people have such short memories. Did you forget or do you only like to pretend that Saddam Hussein used weapons of mass destruction against his own people? How can you possibly claim they never existed?

He had PLENTY of time to get rid of, hide, or move his WMDs to another country (Syria) before the war...which is exactly what he did.

If we didn't go to war, they would have remained in Iraq and he would have used them against his own people again and eventually other countries.

Answer 6

There was evidence of WMD under Saddam Regime. He was not respecting the internatioinal community.  He was playing hide and seek game with WMD. There was UN permission to invade Iraq and destroy WMD so they are not used on innocent civilian people as he had done in the past several times. How many year's war was waged by Saddam against Iran? Saddam had conqured Kuwait over night. He was claiming that Kuwait was part and parcel of Iraq even after he was forced to relieve Kuwait. US has no intention to lay hands on Oil. If USA wants control over any oil field, they can accomplish it overnight. but USA is a democratic country with lot of respect for human rights. There is rule of law in that country. This is the most matured democracy in the world. US army is still there, because Iraq's defence force is still weak and if Allied force leave that country, some one else can easily invade and conquor Iraq and loot all its oil for all time to come and control the complete the oil supply of the world itself. Remember, oil is the most important source of energy and no one country should take control of this product. World economy will crash and no body can save it at that stage. Now at least US presence in Iraq is saving all of us and the world at large. Simply blaming USA as "impearilist", "hegemony",  or "world policing " " oil thirsty" etc is due to deadly enemism  of that blaming person's or country's political ideology like communist bloc or socialist bloc or Islamic bloc etc etc.  There was really a need to  invade Iraq/Saddam at that time. People forget the past history very easily for the sake of professing Political ideology presently.

Answer 7

The US can afford to indulge in this and make its presence felt in the area.   It is not a bad thing too, to make sure that WMD dont exist and dont make their existance again.  As someone said, just because they werent found doesnt mean they werent/arent there.

Answer 8

in the end it was all about oil. To gain control over oilfields.

Answer 9

Im going out on a limb here, but my gut tells me there MIGHT be oil in Iraq... and my gut is also telling me that Bush & Co. MIGHT be interested in it. Middle East democracy my a$$!

Answer 10

Only for the sake of oil... about a population they and did not think, for 7 years that they there perished anymore to the people what at Saddame after 20

Answer 11

GIVE YOU A MUCH SIMPLIER explanation instead of rogue ones here in the forum who have nothing good to say against your US government and to your President Bush. I am not an American.

The US government invaded Iraq for the reason that Saddam Hussein during those times are keeping nuclear facilities and doesnot allowed access to their site, which if my memory serve me right the UN nuclear inspection team was shun out of Iraq for the 2x time. Until stalemate reach its peak. Ground forces was called in from the nearest country near Iraq which is SAUDI ARABIA which has many US military forces, then they decided to launch the invasion of Iraq. Remember the anthrax incident in the US in the mails?

THERE IS NO weapon of mass destruction as perceived by some critics of Saddam. The invasion as President Bush see it as to avoid further more lives to die in the hands of Saddam regime. Saddam have used chemical warfare before in the 1984 war with Iran and to the neighboring town in Iraq, where thousand of men, women and children died. That is why the US led forces invaded Iraq. Now the question whether there is such a weapon of mass destruction is another story. They just didn't found it. The US army is still there for ANOTHER REASON, to secure the order of the country from the warring faction between two religious sect, who wants to slaughter one another, in these situation the US is between these warring faction. Because the US believe if they go now, the more chaos the country will end up in the future.

IT IS LIKE A BUILDING full of theives and robbers, and the US is the only policemen there, one minute someone is shoot inside the room and one is being bomb somewhere else. Yes it is costing American lives for nothing you may add,but who else would put an order to an ORDERLESS SOCIETY SUCH AS IRAQ? The Iraqi themselves? They cannot even wash their cloths in the open for fear of being shot.

Answer 12

Mr.Bush needed a reason to attack Iraq.So,his British

lackey and he manufactured evidence to establish that

Saddam was manufacturing WMDs.The irony of the whole thing is that Iraq has now cashed in on the oil boom and made a killing,leaving the US with not just egg on its face but a deficit of a few trillion dollars which is having a cascading effect on the country's economy from which it will take a few years to recover.

And the US is not only paying the price for the misadventure by the continuing  high price of oil but in

the process pauperising a lot of third world countries which were already reeling under poverty.

Answer 13

Saddam really was a bad person.  I can show you pictures of death row at Abu Ghraib where people wrote (in Arabic of course) "it is better to die then be under Saddam."

I saw Migs buried in the desert. Only God knows what else is buried out there.

Only children run from their mistakes.  We made the mess. We need to clean it up.

Oil.  The world runs on it.  We need to make sure it's not all owned by one group of people.  You ever play Monopoly against someone who owned all the Railroad spots?

Answer 14

The people of the world should recall the history of 'East India Company' which ultimately established British rule in India.  US is utilising the same old method to establish its imperialism in the world. It is just a beginning and in due course these powerful countries shall go ahead.

Answer 15

Maybe they expect a sudden war, so they maybe protecting their country from the war.

Answer 16

Reasons for the invasion of Iraq, were that Saddam was a murdering despot, that there was a slim chance he may have been attempting to make nuclear weapons?

and that he was destabilizing the middle east.

Reasons not spoken about in public were, that there's oil in them there hills, the wests puppet oil country's were in Saddam's sights, ethnic cleansing, power money and greed.

so whats new this type of thing has been going on since the year dot. and a few million flag waving liberal human rights activists with their g*y rights ban anything in the world attitude will not change big business making a profit from war, as soon as Afghanistan and Iraq die down, a new conflict will start some ware else, there are wars in Africa that don't even get a mention because there's no profit in it, so to answer your question Greed,

Answer 17

to bring democracy but it is an outside interference in iraq and to show its power usa invaded iraq it feared that it had some dangerous weapons bush wanted to eradicate saddam hussain but it was wrong

Answer 18

First off, the rise in oil costs is not only due to the War in Iraq - although that is a (minor) contribution. Remember, oil costs were still moderately low in 2003 when we invaded. Oil costs didn't start skyrocketing until 2006, which was shortly after Venezuela nationalized their oil production and Nigeria plunged (again) into civil war, and Somalian pirates began harassing ships (including oil tankers) in the Middle East seas off the coast of Somalia.

Second, Saddam had the better part of a YEAR to clear out his WMDs, since he wouldn't let UN Weapons Inspectors inside his borders without a very large advance notice. When we invaded in 2003, we didn't discovered WMDs...but we did discover evidence of WMDs produced in facilities that were recently (as in, within a few months of the 2003 invasion) abandoned and heavy equipment moved out.

Third, Saddam had a history of using WMDs on his own countrymen. If his first trial for genocide against the Kurds hadn't found him guilty and gotten him executed, he would've stood trial for the use of biological agents against other Kurd groups in 1983. Remember, WMDs aren't just nuclear weapons. WMDs include nuclear, biological, chemical, and radiological weapons.

I had a fourth point...but elaborating on the previous three made me forget the fourth.

Answer 19

Ask The millions who died under saddam Hussein

Answer 20

It is a lot easier to start a war than it is to stop one.