http://edition.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/me...ape/index.html

You can argue that the reason the US and the allies went to war against Iraq was not because of weapons of mass distruction, but people who watch this tape will probably feel the invasion was justified.

Oil is the reason because I have a really hard time remembering when the U.S. ever cared about people being tortured in terms of going with war against those dictators/regimes? There are at least 50 more countries right now in the world (as I read in press) with dictatorship regime that punish and kill people in ways similar to this one. Why Iraq? Connections to Al-Qaeda? Oh, come one, Al-Qaeda is a world-wide organization - France, Germany, China, Russia and probably even America itself has such connections. But no one goes against Germany or China today. Because they are strong and can defend themselves. While Iraq is a goldmine to States. Plenty of oil (great timing as well, just when the U.S. started experiencing trouble with oil reserves), economic recession - what better way to improve your economy then by waging war?

Anyways, this is just my personal view of the reasons for this war. Of course history books will lie once again by educating young kids sometimes from now that war against Iraq was part of the world war on terrorism and cruel regime of Saddam... I don't really care much myself as I have no interest in taking any sides. Just commenting my way out of this.

PS: I'm more curious about where Osama and Saddam are. Both have been #1 targets (supposebly) - none was found.

PS2: On the other hand, I have to state that it made me sick looking at how Saddam and his family lived while the whole country was poorly living in fear, it made me sick of how they "managed" their own people. Sick to my stomach. I'm glad they are a target now and I'm glad some of them ended up dead. But its just a personal feed og mine. Not the answer to the question "Reason to war".

Best,

I would have to agree with Artashes. I totally do not buy that this war was for a humanitarian cause. They've known about this stuff for a long time. Rumsfeld himself went to Iraq and met Saddam in the 80's during the Iran-Iraq war. They knew about his brutality then but chose to support him over Iran. After the end of that war in 1988 they decided he was getting to powerful and turned on him. They kept up the sanctions knowing full well that the sanctions hurt only the Iraqi people. The reasoning given for this war is an insult to the intelligence of those who see beyond the bulls***.

i don't know what to say ......i just wish they wouldn't come back and revenge US since Osama & Hussein are out of sight and nowhere to be found, US is still in "danger".....

I have one dude in my class whose name is (seriously) Saddam Hussein.

you're serious ?? lol

Absolutely.

Saddam Hussein is actually a very popular name among Middle Easterners.

Dude, he must have a horrible time. Are you in the US? I met some relatives at a wedding last year and one of their kids' names was Osama (he's like 9 yrs old) - she said everyone had been trying to convince her to change it.

I'm in Canada. And no, he is quite popular instead. I think he's enjoying it also.

Canadians are very tolerated towards anything that happens in the world. We are a very calm nation.