why does some Americans agree with war on Iraq?
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a couple of points...\n\nA. anyone who says 9-11 is a retard... osama is in Pakistan... not Iraq... I know it's hard for you to wrap your mind around... but there is more than one country in the middle east... cite the link of 9-11 to Iraq... oh that's, right there aren't any \n\nB. See, defense contractors make a lot of money when we go to war... then if they make trillions, they give trillions to those that support the wars, like Republicans... also if we go to war in the middle east, the instablity it causes dirves up oil prices, so they make money and donnate more too... and our president may have some ties to oil as well?\n\n\nrfjanssen... simple question... why doesn't Bush do something about Osama... he's in Pakistan... he's "picked" on us? is he just a pansy?
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No because americans dont support our country and militant combatants, they all seem to want to hate bush when he has been the biggest supporter of all, his job isnt the easiest
109684
Some are very brain washed by TV and News Papers, these people are the ones who want to be spoon fed by (red furry) news.\nHisBushyness has a job approval of 34 percent. Also 70 percent are opposed to the port deal. A full 62 percent of Americans think Iraq was a mistake now. 55 million Americans voted for Kerry and Kerry won Ohio.
1070740
Good question actually. There are two sides I'd like to present to you before answering the question.\n\nOne belief that the War in Iraq is NOT a failure is simply because U.S. forces and their allies are attempting to stop a global threat of terrorism. If we don't do anything now, then it might be too late in the future.\n\nAnother perspective is that the U.S. really has no business or any right to intervene with foreign affairs. One might say, "If the Iraqis wanted democracy, then they would have had it a long time ago. So why are we there today?"\n\nIn all due respects, yes, U.S. troops and Iraqi civilians die everyday. But how can we, as Americans, the British, the Canadians, and so on, destroy this global threat if we're afraid to lose lives on BOTH sides?\n\nWar costs and does damage. Yet nevertheless, it wasn't meant to be perfect. Unless people are willing to unite and keep the world safe FROM terrorism, then we might as well open our doors for terrorists to come in and blow up our own bus stops and schools.\n\nYou can also look at Harry Truman during his presidential time in WW2. Should the Americans drop the atomic bomb to end the terrible war? Or refuse to use it to save thousands of innocent lives?\n\nPersonally, I feel George Bush is not a total failure. He recognizes a threat and is responding based on what HE FEELS is RIGHT. In addition, no President has ever kept both political parties HAPPY. It's literally impossible.
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No they beleive we are fighting a war because Bush is evil and that if we merely talk to them they will understand and we can all live in peace together.\n\nAnd many stated the bad economy for why they voted democrat, they actually have lied so much people beleive the economy was bad,  how sad can it be.
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First, your question is flawed by assuming the war is for oil.\n\nSecond, I have done two tours in Iraq. The vast majority of Iraqis love Americans. The kids love us and want to shake our hands. The adults love us and regularly invite us to dinner and special occasions. They love us when we build schools. They love us when we build roads. They love us when we rid villages of insurgents.\n\nDon't believe what the liberal media is spinning. They have an agenda just like you.
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First of all its not that so many people whom u know dont like Bush that counts. Its democracy. So the final numbers count. It's not just u and me in democracy, but including you and me.\n\nBut if you ask why did they support for Iraq war then I dont know answer, but it reasons to me perfectly that they supported Iraq war directly or indirectly.\n\nIf u look at the US politics, its so amazing that the whole congress passed the war bill on Iraq, and still some of them say they opposed it. Common, lets not change interpretations of Democracy.
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Before Bush invaded more Americans opposed the war than supported it.\n\nNearly everyone on the planet opposed the war.\n\nMost military people opposed it.\n\nPowell opposed it.\n\nPolitician were, unfortunately, getting their news from the stenographers of the press, who reported lies as truth, and felt they'd be attacked as terrorists if they opposed the war, so they didn't.\n\nEvery HUMAN opposed the war. We still do.\n\nWe've been joined by the ranks of the deluded, who have switched to opposing the war. Too bad they hadn't a clue when it really mattered.\n\nSorry, I don't have a list or link to a list. The Bush administration squelched opposition to their loathsome war.\n\nYou could paw around the archives of Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog.\nhttp://www.juancole.com/
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Alot of people who have never seen war like it. Most Americans have not seen war because since 1865, there's been no military conflict in the US. \n\nSoldiers don't like war, but they have to do what they're told.
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The majority of Americans were against it, therefore it would've been a very unpopular war, look at what's happening today in Iraq.  Americans were 'isolationist' in their thinking before Pearl Harbor.
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It is not america that wants war. It is the human nature that wants war.\n\nIt is called balance of power. Today america is the superpower\n\nYesterday ROmans and persians were the superpower, then muslims, then came englishmens, and now americans, \n\nTomorrow it may be communist and after that Hindu's and then muslims again\n\nAllah knows better.\n\nNobody knows what will be there tomorrow, but everybody will be fighting.\n\nSo let us all live with it. Time for america has come.
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No, its not.  I think you give the American people too much credit.  There is not actually a very large difference between the people and the government.  Don't forget, this war began with a 70% public approval rating.  The vast majority of Americans favored starting the war.  Bush had a very high approval rating until recently, and disapproval of the war is only growing now that people realize it was a mistake.  Unfortunately its the public opinion before the war which matters more.  I am American and I find that many Americans do approve of American foreign policy.  It might be because I live in the south, but many people are further to the right than Bush is.  There are many people that would make Bush look like a moderate dove.  In a country that prides itself on democracy, you can only separate the people and the government so much.  The government is responsible to the people, and when the government does bad things, it is either through the will or the apathy of the people.  In either case, the public of a democracy share the moral responsiblity.
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I generally concur with your observation,I see it as the majority of the American public frustrated with and administration who tried to dictate a war and a plan that the populous disagreed with, and furthermore wanted to decrease our individual rights as citizens. \nI am and Independent and voted very heavily for Democrats this time around.
1028413
I'm an American living in Jordan, and I actually know quite a few Iraqis. I find that most of them really actually like americans, but think that George Bush is crazy. Most arabs ar really good about distinguishing people from their governments, i.e. we dont get blamed for what our government has done.
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It's certainly easy to believe that people don't know how (or want to truly debate) when you read the Yahoo discussions and watch a lot of the media. Frankly, I think many people are intellectually lazy. They don't want to take the time to provide defendable reasons why they believe a certain way, so they resort to vitriole and name-calling.\n\nI too believe that Bush is a good man and was right about Iraq, but he is a horrible communicator. That was Clinton's strong-point. Right or wrong, he knew how to get the American people to buy whatever he was selling.
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Because the feel they can push everybody about, they have one rule for themselves and another for the rest of the world. Their troops ill treat people in the line of duty and nothing is done. The support military rulers whom they like and dislike any govt that stands -up up to them. They go into Iraq, the Administrator blows billions of dollars that up till today he can not account for.Yet, nobody is asking questions where all the money went to. A UK TV station did a documentary of the US involvement in the Iraq war, what we discover from the investigation, my US friends that watched it with was speechless. SO THESE ARE THE REASONS PEOPLE HATE USA. The government is not fear to its own people and the outside world.
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I am pro-American all the way but in my time in the Marines I learned that the rest of the world does not think like the US.  One of the biggest faults I see in the US is that most Americans honestly believe the rest of the world thinks like us. This is not true.  Another big problem is a lot in the US believe that the rest of the world wants to be like us as well.  That is also not true.\n\nThis is a problem I have given a lot of thought to and honestly I do not know of a solution to this.  You can look through here at the partisan answers and tell that there are some people that plan out you will not change their minds.