We won! 20 Jan 09 (Erudite) asked:


Three years ago most Americans said YES to the war in Iraq. Why has it changed? Why do most Americans want the war to end? How come we thought there was WMD?

LEON

11 Responses to “According to CNN news and my Newspaper most American no longer believe in the war in Iraq. Why?”

1. myemail on December 16th, 2009 5:04 pm

   Sadly most people dont believe in wrong or right. They beleive in their own interest. With cheap oil not happening, the world hating America and lives being lost Americans are thinking it all over again.

   Maybe those pinko commie liberal bla bla blas were right and CNN and Fox were wrong after all???

2. vmv1970 on December 17th, 2009 3:30 pm

   because the truth is emerging slowly but surely…. and people are finally seeing things as they are!!!!!

3. de_evilpenguin on December 20th, 2009 4:35 am

   bush said we would not like the war after a while. we no longer believe in the war because of the newspeople/vultures. they only tell the bad, and are great at leaving out all our accomplishments in the war. we have made great strides, and the insurgents are getting desperate. i heard there were WMD in iraq, but that was only circulating the news for about half a day. we thought/knew there was because we have things like the CIA and NSA.

4. Whodaman? on December 20th, 2009 8:31 am

   Americans are dying there nearly everyday. Sucess is coming very very very very slowly. the Americans are impatient.

5. cwhite1 on December 21st, 2009 8:12 am

   The public finally understands we have no purpose for being in this country as we spend billions of dollars and lose countless life. In the meantime, Iraq has become a spawning ground for terrorism. We have in no way benefited from this horrific course of action we took. The American public is beginning to see that we were duped by Mr. Bush and his administration into a war which he had never justified a cause for. 9/11 was used as the justification for the war in Iraq. The American public at the time was still grieving, felt violated, and less secure. We needed someone to point the finger at and take to war to relieve those feelings. Al-qaeda has no borders, no leaders, no military, and therefore, no one to launch a full scale military campaign against to prove our might. Iraq happened to be in the region, raise suspicion, and be weak enough to overpower quickly. The restoration of the country was the element the Bush administration failed to evaluate thoroughly. They don’t understand the Middle East. It’s a complicated place.. Hence, here we are two years later with no progress and the American public is beginning to ask questions… I say we were duped by Mr. George W. Bush.

6. ceaserkenobi on December 22nd, 2009 8:36 pm

   me being in the military most of us believe in it. for the rest of the civilians they dont like anything that takes to long. if we were fighting WWII now the same thing would of been reported

7. scoopie_04 on December 24th, 2009 12:48 pm

   The bottom line is that the American public were brainwashed to believe that there were WMD in Iraq and if we don’t act now, they could retaliate against us. The main reason that we are over there is for the oil…and the oil only. Why now, do you think that the US is trying to threaten Russia?? Its all about the oil. Americans, I believe, want the war to end because too many people are getting killed and over what? The end of the war was supposed to result in lower prices of oil and the overall betterment of the economy. Yeah, right. Also, a lot of Republicans believed that Bush was cleaning up Clinton’s mess. That’s a joke. Bush just wanted to go to war because his daddy did and also to protect his family’s investments. He’s not concerned about the middle to lower class…he’s only concerned with making the rich richer and the poor poorer…You can definitely see a separation of the classes…enough said.

8. bradsgranny on December 27th, 2009 5:07 am

   The people in favor of the war made the mistake of believing what they were spoon fed about WMD’s. They were told it would only last a few months. It’s called disillusionment. I was never in favor of that war. Why didn’t we concentrate all our energies toward capturing Bin Laden? HE’S the one who attacked us, not Saddam. Don’t get me wrong. I believe Saddam is evil, but we needed to keep our priorities straight.

9. m1a1mikegolf on December 27th, 2009 11:15 am

   Because of the misleading reporting put out by CNN and your newspaper.

   A rather famous quote made by an officer in Iraq:
   If all I knew about the war came from the news media - I would think we were losing too.

   Below is a link that is a ‘dark humor’ joke that illustrates what people in the military think about how the news media is reporting the war:

10. tweety on December 28th, 2009 11:03 pm

    LOL, I love these people…

    Before:
    Bush is an idiot
    Bush is a dunce
    Bush couldn’t spell cat if you spotted him the c and the a

    Now:
    Whaaahhh! Bush tricked us
    Whaaahhh! Bush duped us
    He made us believe a lie…whaaaahhhh!
    Waaahhh he lied to us and we fell for it!

    Idiots!

11. jhowell04 on December 31st, 2009 7:58 pm

    Because we were lied to. After 9/11 everyone including myself was all.. KILL EM NOW!!!, INVADE!! I for one however did NOT want our country to invade a sovergn land! Bin Laden was in Afghanistan we invade Iraq as well as Afghanistan. I think the majority of Americans realize now why we went over there in the first place. The white house is full of oilmen. Get it? …A Military Wife