Why is America and England at war with Iraq, what did the country of Iraq do?

The First Dragon

The US and UK attacked Iraq because the leader was a terrorist dictator. They continue to help the new Iraqi government because the old dictators partisans, and new terrorist forces too, are trying to overthrow the democracy and create a new dictatorship, which might be worse than the last.

Fred

Iraq's fault? Having too much oil.

Geeza Sooka Yerlips

You should be asking questions about butterflies and flowers and little bells and things,not this war shite.

scottdman2003

First off, we're not at war with Iraq anymore. It's the Islamofacists that we're fighting.
We attacked Iraq mainly because of the WMD that was believed to be in the hands of Saddam. He broke UN resolution after resolution. All he had to do was allow inspections and he kicked the inspectors out. Our fear was that he would allow much of the believed WMD to fall into the hands of people like Osama Bin Laden.
Now it's turned into what Al Quada calls the central point for jihad.

blonde dyslexic but good looking

its a contuinuation of the war that was never finished and now oil is needed so much these days they need it in a puppets hands i am sure iran will be next. terry

budding author

Yes a perfectly fair question I thought, you have read most of your answers as to why they were there, you make up your own mind on the validity of the answers!!
What did the country of Iraq do? was another question you asked, if you mean the people of that country they actually did nothing more or less than they have been doing for a great number of years, all down to silly religion, that is really no business of the Americans or the Brits. There will be many wars over religion for a long time to come.
Now this peace keeping bit is a bit harder to sort out, what do we do? leave them alone to sort it out?
Like the troops in Northen Island, why are they still there?
Sorry I cant bring myself to advise you, it's just one of those things that you really must read and try to understand all the 'angles' your self and make up your own mind.
Why should you believe anything I say?
I dont belive at least half of your answers so far.

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To steal the oil.

Peter D

Personally I think that there are a couple of reasons why the Us and Britain are in Iraq.

1. Oil, Iraq has more oil than other countries that are has bad or has worse record than Iraq, e.g. Syria.

2. Bush wants to do what his daddy didn't do lol.

3. B liar is a puppet of bush scared of Bush because he is basically a cowboy and it just shows how stupid America is that he got not once but twice!

David H

Discovered oil under the ground, in large quantities.

lisa4rugby

Bush took hold of Blair's hand and off they skipped towards Iraq...Iran is next on Bush's hit-list...

trigga1uk

Youve opened a tin or worms there my dear. I like many people actually thought they needed to get rid of saddam. But if he had not been removed would this massive number of iraqis died, i doubt it. For america it seems to be Vietnam: the sequel. I always think to myself how the america of today will be remembered in the future. Cant imagine it'll be a particularly pleasant memory.

Philip McCrevice

We are not at war with Iraq.

We are trying to help the democratically elected government of Iraq secure itself, and keep the terrorists from taking over.

When the Iraqi government is strong enough to take over, we will leave.

Jerry H

The president insisted back in 2003 that if Saddam didn't disarm, he would authorize a military invasion to disarm him. Since Saddam didn't have such weapons and the UN Security Council didn't approve an invasion, the US decided to invade anyway using it's own faulty intelligence and it's lust for revenge for terrorists.

Many countries are not physically at war, but certainly is showing dislike of the US and Britain pushing a phony war.

Drake, lol! That's not a reliable source.

tutyfruity

we are at war because Saddam killed a lot of people . he thought he was the best and doing the right thing . but he was just being a stupid prat ! now all of America and us are at war because of his followers and him .

Hello

UK is NOT "at war" with Iraq. For you to UNDERSTAND why UK is there (which by the way is NOT JUST england - contrary to popular belief UK consists of Scotland, Wales, NORTHERN Ireland and england ! and there are MANY troops from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland there so that's ONE misconception cleared up here !), if you click on this link DIRECT FROM THE HORSES' MOUTH.. you will see why UK troops are there -
http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/FactSheets/OperationsFactsheets/OperationsInIraqBackgroundBriefing.htm

QUOTE ".....In view of the Iraqi regime's failure to comply with the will of the United Nations, and based on the authority provided by a series of UN resolutions since 1991, the UK joined a US-led coalition that was prepared to use force as a last resort to secure Iraqi compliance......" UNQUOTE

If we didn't believe this............................

With regards to other Countries - QUOTE "Iraq Coalition Troops
Non-US Forces in Iraq - February 2007
The size and capabilities of the Coalition forces involved in operations in Iraq has been a subject of much debate, confusion, and at times exageration. As of August 23, 2006, there were 21 non-U.S. military forces contributing armed forces to the Coalition in Iraq. These 21 countries were: Albania, Armenia, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Denmark, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia, Moldova, Mongolia, Poland, Romania, South Korea, and the United Kingdom. " UNQUOTE
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/iraq_orbat_coalition.htm

mr bones

we went in to oust a dangerous dictator who apparently had weapons of mass destruction.
these weapons were not found unfortunately,although a cargo ship left an iraqi port headed to syria about 2 weeks before we went in!!
we are still thier today because if we pulled out,iraq would descend into utter chaos,civil war would rage and many many more people would die.

Proud to be an AMERICAN

This is what the US Congress said:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/10/20021002-2.html

Nirmala

having gone in for the wrong reasons they don't want to leave with their tails between their legs. that would make the terorists even stronger. it seems to be a vietnam ish situation..

cassidy

USA and UK are at war with Iraq because they both choose that path. the reason was that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction which proved later to be completely untrue.
In the UK the majority of the people didn't want the invasion of Iraq to take place but it made no difference, I cant say if the USA was the same or not.

Northern Lad

Ask the - sorry you can`t - the people in the mass graves!

cherry45uk

We don't need dictators just democracy for all

Taff B

It started because there was a strong risk of hussein storing chemical and biological weapons, and also a risk it may have become a safe haven for terrorists, much like syria and afghanistan became. and because of oil.
Now hussein is dead, two types of muslims, the sunni's and shia's are fighting for power in iraq. Foreign terrorists are flooding into iraq now, using it as a base to attack western forces, along with many indigenous fighters.
This war will be over when the allies, as in america and britain, are satisfied that a civil war will not take place, that the iraqi civilians are no longer under threat, when iraqs oil exports are no longer under threat and the iraqi army and police are capable of handling any insurgency, to ensure that iraq will never be a threat to the west or the wider middle east.

Louis G

The objective is to try and restore peace to the area. They aren't at war with Iraq. They are struggling to keep the warring factions from breaking out into all out civil war.

Johnny

We arent at war with Iraq. We are helping the Iraqi government fight against an Iraqi Revolution.

heebygeeby

Something to do with saddam hussein hiding nuclear arms,which were never found. Bush tried to be a hero and dragged us into it.

Drake

They had WMD's they had links to al qaeda and 9/11 and also had links to 7/11. Also he is a horrible dictator who gases his own people. He had 17 violations of the No FLy zone treaty. He violated the DMZ rules.

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