why has bush declared war on the american people?
541805
You do realize that it is Congress who has to pass the right to go to war right? I mean all the president is, is the congresses scape goat you should really do some studing before pointing fingers.
312059
False- Only Congress can declare war, not the president, and Congress has not officially done so. So, we are not technically "at war," even though that is what most people (including the president) are calling it.
482837
Bush is to blame. I'm sure when these people joined the military they did it with the assumption that they would not be sent into harms way unless it was NECESSARY to defend the country. This war was not necassary. (What weapons of mass destruction?) The blood of every dead or injured American soldier and every innocent Iraqi civilian is on his hands.
620928
Because of everything the President is doing.  Someone has to pay for the war, and believe me, it is not comming from the Bushs' pockets
952470
Bush was the one wanting to give them amnesty, and he's the reason for the Iraq war, so by your reasoning, Bush is the downfall of the USA.
1087149
keeping the republicans is way to expensive and as far as it seems pretty dangerous too , not wonder all countries around the world do not like America . \n\nbush and his people have done nothing but to impose their one way policies and have made sure to get as much money as possible in their way out we just have to see at the bicepresident to see what I'm talking about .\n\nglobal warning is also a huge problem which has been addressed by all countries and ignored by bush and and his team . we as Americans must make sure to elect a new good president and not another nature killer .\n\nthere is also the enormous problem which this administration has created whit their searching for nonexistent WMDs problem which not only has stuck America in an endless war but it has killed thousands of innocent people and has bring more hate and anger towards America .\n\nso i really hope the next  president and the new leaders are responsible people who will not take personal issues and make them into huge problems .
44028
No, war is part of human nature. War by rock, by blade, by spear, by bullet, by bombs. The end will come at the end of the world.\n\nAnd Bush is a big part of the problem. Lies about iraq having connections to alquaida, lies about Weapons of mass destruction. Plus 9/11 happened while Bush was in office being incompetent as usual. Watch what the Republicans and Abramoff have been up to. And watch how theylie and blame things on others.
903715
Nothing to do with 9-11. The Bushies wanted to add power to the presidency. The easiest way to do that is to go to war somewhere. The whole thing was decided even before Bush was elected. Drum up a war with Iraq so he could be a "War President," and thus get the extra juice in constitutional powers...and get an extra bump as an incumbent pres, since most all wartime presidents are reelected.
969927
Never in American history has the Commander in Chief had to be subjected to the will of the American people in terms of military planning and organization, and the same still applies here today.  This is based solely on the fact that the citizens do not know about the full situation over there, the secrets, the confidential war plans and discussions with the generals.  \n\nAnd yet the American people do have a voice, and it was expressed last week during the elections, which will place limits upon Bush's presidency.  This is the American voice, and it has been heard in Washington, I'm sure.
192336
The Bush family is entirely off their rocker. Do you know how many civilians have died in Iraq? How many parents, spouses and children will not get to see the one they love because of this war? This war was started because Bush wanted the oil that was in Iraq. Now he's tearing up Alaska in search of oil there. The Bushes are a loney family, and if we had a Bush for President come 2008, this country would fall apart.
589342
2 reasons  - war and tax cuts. Bush is the first president in history to simultaneously go to war AND cut taxes. \n Let me quote the Republican oath, because our conservative republican government seems to have forgotten it:\n\nI BELIEVE government must practice fiscal responsibility.\n\nYes, it says that. What other oaths has Bush lied on?
616082
I really wish you guys would stop crying over Bush.  He has nothing to even do with this question.  \n\nThe person asking the question is asking why Americans (YOU! if you live here) are not fighting for what "WE" complain about.\n\nTo answer this question I would have to say we are fighting for what we complain about.  Remember "War on terrorist"?  War in Iraq?  Better borders? and many other things.
268567
Yes. There was no war going on before George W. Bush and since he's been president, a pointless war is costing millions of dollars and thousands of lives. The middle eastern people (Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan) do not believe in Democracy, so why should the U.S. persuade them? They believe that man should be executed because he converted to christianity. People are harsh over there and they have a lot of hatred for anyone "different" than them. We're not even fighting to destroy Al-Quaida... we've lost our focus and all we do is try to change the people that canNOT be changed.
1172200
the "war on terror" is not a real war.\nit is like the "war on crime" you CAN'T BEAT THEM!\n\nas for bush, he should have been impeached after his first day in office. Al Gore won the 200 presidential election.\n\nBush is a war criminal. \n\nhis administration has openly totured people without giving them a fair trial, or even lawers. \n\nhe lead a pre-emptive war on false information, which he KNEW was flase before he made the announcement.\n\nhe has repeatively stepped over his heighth of power, over ruling other branches of the government.\n\nhe profits of the racist, bullsh*t war both politically and finacialy.
1076279
Actually this BUSH and his Monkey friends want to keep the war alive and make money. So they create unneccessary problems and make all live in fear.\n\nTherefore all will support the war saying there are home grown terrorist.
796523
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.
901769
The entire "purpose" of the Iraq "war" -- actually invasion -- was to  make a lying, borderline moron draft dodger appear to be a "War President" for the 2004 election cycle. Iraq was a thriving nation for 6,000 years, known as the Jewel of the Middle East, had nothing to do with 9/11 and was no threat whatsoever to us, facts which even Bush now admits. Today, $350 billion and hundreds of thousands of American and Iraqi casualties later, a once great nation, Iraq, lies in ruins and the United States has lost its standing as leader of the free world. So to answer your questions, no. And of course, no.