Current Events > Why didn't George Bush just not invade Iraq?

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Seems to me like that would have been easier, and way less expensive in both money and lives

but da oil doe
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Pretty much this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
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finish what his daddy started at the cost of thousands of american lives

Because he was an idiot.
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Invading Iraq was why he ran for President.
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Demon_Raho posted...

Invading Iraq was why he ran for President.

Couldn't he have just not run for President then?

It was a bipartisan action that was supported even by Democrats like John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. George Bush didn't decide to invade Iraq, the US government decided to.
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r4X0r posted...

It was a bipartisan action that was supported even by Democrats like John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. George Bush didn't decide to invade Iraq, the US government decided to.

Which is why I'm glad neither of those guys became President. I could never vote for someone who would support such a senseless war

r4X0r posted...

It was a bipartisan action that was supported even by Democrats like John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. George Bush didn't decide to invade Iraq, the US government decided to.

Shut the fuck up.
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He was told to keep troops off the ground in the Middle East, he didn't take any meaning from that, just as he didn't understand he is the President that divided America, meaning a very immoral thing to do.
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r4X0r posted...

It was a bipartisan action that was supported even by Democrats like John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. George Bush didn't decide to invade Iraq, the US government decided to.

nah, presidents act alone in everything they do obv
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r4X0r posted...

It was a bipartisan action that was supported even by Democrats like John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. George Bush didn't decide to invade Iraq, the US government decided to.

This. Im not even republican, but dubya got way too much hate for being a figurehead.
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r4X0r posted...

It was a bipartisan action that was supported even by Democrats like John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. George Bush didn't decide to invade Iraq, the US government decided to.

Which was based on lies perpetuated by hos administratipn that exploited the hysteria post 9/11.
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Why didn't Obama just not drone strike civilians?

Seems like things would have been better if he didn't kill innocent people.
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Because he "thought" Saddam still had weapons of mass destruction.
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thelovefist posted...

r4X0r posted...

It was a bipartisan action that was supported even by Democrats like John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. George Bush didn't decide to invade Iraq, the US government decided to.

Which was based on lies perpetuated by hos administratipn that exploited the hysteria post 9/11.

That's nonsense. Read the Iraq War Resolution.

The resolution cited many factors as justifying the use of military force against Iraq:[3][4]

Iraq's noncompliance with the conditions of the 1991 ceasefire agreement, including interference with U.N. weapons inspectors.
Iraq "continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability" and "actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability" posed a "threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region."
Iraq's "brutal repression of its civilian population."
Iraq's "capability and willingness to use weapons of mass destruction against other nations and its own people".
Iraq's hostility towards the United States as demonstrated by the 1993 assassination attempt on former President George H. W. Bush and firing on coalition aircraft enforcing the no-fly zones following the 1991 Gulf War.
Members of al-Qaeda, 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.
Iraq's "continu[ing] to aid and harbor other international terrorist organizations," including anti-United States terrorist organizations.
Iraq paid bounty to families of suicide bombers.
The efforts by the Congress and the President to fight terrorists, and those who aided or harbored them.
The authorization by the Constitution and the Congress for the President to fight anti-United States terrorism.
The governments in Turkey, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia feared Saddam and wanted him removed from power.
Citing the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, the resolution reiterated that it should be the policy of the United States to remove the Saddam Hussein regime and promote a democratic replacement.

There was a list of reasons for invading Iraq longer than your arm, and we DID find chemical weapons over there.

And as far as "post 9/11 hysteria" the Democrats were calling for an invasion of Iraq back in the late 1990s!
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The naivety here is cringeworthy. Can't believe people believe in all the US propaganda.

Kasperia posted...

The naivety here is cringeworthy. Can't believe people believe in all the US propaganda.

As opposed to non-US propaganda?
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