Lostplanet22 said:
Joelcool7 said:
Well as a Canadian I can't vote.
However I was against the war when it was started but changed my mind since.
Why?
Simple at the beginning of the war, Goerge Bush said that their were weapons of mass destruction and that these weapons could be used on American's. Now I would have supported the war , however the CIA gave the report. The US came to the Canadian Government asking my country to support the invasion. But CSIS (Canadian Security intelligence Service) reported to the Government that their were no weapons of mass destruction and that Iraq was not a threat to Canada.
I believed my Government that their were no weapons of mass destruction. So as such I thought Bush was just lying to go and finish what his father failed to do (Invade Iraq). I was severly anti-War especially when the CBC reported that the US faked the toppling of the Suddam statue. I saw footage that showed only a small crowd around the statue and US soldiers helping the civilians topple the statue. CBC said the footage was taken without authorization of the US and it showed a small group backed by US troops tearing down the statue. More footage was accused of being falsified by the US according to CBC.
So of course I was anti-Iraq war the whole beginning of the war was nothing but lies. However after Saddam finally got hung. The US claimed it had entered to topple Saddam and changed its tune entirely to the horrible things Saddam had done to his people.
Today Iraq is almost won, I didn't think the US could win and that was another reason I didn't support the war. Iraq now has democracy something I support whole heartedly, Saddam is dead something I think should have happened along time ago.The Iraqi army and Government are close with the US pretty much allies and I think the US needed more middle eastern allies.
So today I think if Bush had said to begin with, were going in to topple Saddam and bring democracy to Iraq, and then not faked video footage and lied to the masses. I would have supported the war from the beginning. But its the lies that kept me from supporting it to begin with.
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Did Bush Lie? I was under the impression that he really believed their were mass Destruction weapons;.and what has been won exactly? Is life now thx to democracy better than it was before? I know media doesn't mention Iraq anymore...but the situation in Iraq is not that good....For everyone who lives in Iraq;.. Mass killing, bomb attacks, rocket attacks are daily situations;..For example yesterday =
Attackers kill 53 in organized raid in Iraq
Uniformed attackers driving military trucks and armed with a car bomb, guns, grenades and suicide belts blasted their way Tuesday into a provincial government headquarters in this northern city, killing at least 53 people in a highly organized raid, according to witnesses and local officials.
53 deads but the 'Western Media' barely mentioned it..because we are used to the idea that their are bomb attacks, mass killing everday in Iraq...
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I wouldn't say Bush outright lied. The information before him said WMDs were in Iraq, but it turned out to be faulty intelligence from questionable sources. Now, I would still criticize him for setting up his administration is such a way that made it more likely that such misinformation would happen. As other users have also mentioned, Bush hardly went into the Iraq situation with an open-mind. He gave Iraq an inordinate amount of attention and considered it a bigger threat than it actually was, even prior to 9/11. To sum up, no, he did not flat-out lie. He did not know the truth and then lie to the public. He was misinformed about the issue, but a lot of this misinformation was a result of his own actions and decisions.
