Why does everyone blame Bush for the war?

it was Dem's and Rep's alike who voted for it base on info from the intelligence community (CIA,FBI etc) that was gathered during Clinton's admin. Bush was only in office 8 months when 9/11 happened, he had to make a quick decision based on the info he was given. Also if you remember 9/11 was planned at least 3 yrs before it was actually carried out not to mention the bombing of the world trade center was on clinton's watch....you can point the finger of blame at bush for some things but there is a lot of others that should share the burden. at least tell the truth ppl don't just regurgitate what you hear from cnn.

anyone out there really listening....how about a little research here.....iraq didn't have anything to do with 9/11, about its funding and support of al qaida & bin laden...when they found saddam hiding in the spider hole they also found documents...the content of some which were just release over the last couple of months..mtgs between bin laden & hussein's 'generals'. not to mention, one of hussein's right hand men release a book in it he says he sat in on mtgs discussing wmd's & hiding them in syria & iraq support of al qaida....i guess that really doesn't matter though the dem's/libs had a hand in this it more about how to get bush...typical moronic blindness

bush will die because of his power he is weak nad never should of been elected i am mados ruler of the world i am strong and will make this world a better place by far

Well said. People forget that it was voted on and the intel was faulty from the CIA. The pres can only go on info he is given. Iraq was trying to make it look as tho they had WMD's so Iran would be scared. So damn insane forgot we were watching too. Report It

Because the Buck Stops There-- at the President's Desk, so he has the appropriate blame. Especially since he and his people deliberately cherrypicked evidence for war with Iraq, since that's what they were eager to do BEFORE 9/11. Read "Worse than Watergate" by John Dean to learn more about how they manipulated and used intelligence and deceived the American people.

hell it is his war

Some people are ignorant and mis-informed. A lot of liberals are just filled with anger and hate so they blame Bush which is irrational. People need to analyze the situation before making ignorant claims.
Mostly because he is the top person, the final decision, and responsible for the outcomes.

Everyone wants to blame him because he's the idiot they voted for. Honestly it may not be his fault but he is the one on office right now. People always shoot the messenger.

Bush lied to the world and used a time of sorrow to enter into an un called for and un winnable war.I fully support our military ,I do not support this war.

I would answer your question but I don't like being called a liar or a biggot! On what grounds can you call me this? Do you hate blue collar people?

Typical spoon fed, neoconservative!

Bush is the figurehead for all those who are responsible for the war.

I think that most of the blame that falls on President Bush involves the invasion of Iraq. There was little evidence of their involvement in 9/11 and a sound reason for using American troops for a war of aggression in Iraq has never been given.

Fair enough - the reason is because he makes a good fall guy - possibly something to do with the fact he is an idiot.

it is not his war.... it is HIS DADY's war

Um, I don't blame Bush for the war. I blame him for narrow-minded policies that keep us where we're obviously not wanted anymore. But I blame the terrorists that sparked the war with 9/11 for the actual war. If they'd just bombed some other country, Bush wouldn't have had to use faulty intelligence (gathered during Bush Sr. , Clinton, and Bush's 8 month term). Plus, Americans rallied for war, so saying now that we don't want it is a little silly. We all had the same info. We all wanted war. Now we all want it to end. I blame Bush for not putting an end to it.

He started ita ll thats why by sending US troops over there,dont you know anything little girl!

Basically he is the one who decide to go to war....now hes playing toy soldiers with real lives.......

Who cares move to Canada :)

He is just the one everyone sees, so it is easy to blame him. This is one thing I have heard. I have had several friends who have been in Iraq and they tell me, most people thank thank them getting rid of Saddam. We only hear about the insurgents, not the every day people. Saddam was evil. Period. What gets me is people talk about everything they have heard or books they have read. Everything we know is based on someone point of view and opinions. The people who see agree with bush are stuck to the things that support that point of view and the people who hate him only see things that support that point of view. People need to look at the whole picture and not just the things they want to hear or see. There are things that go on in our upper level government that influence the decisions that go on and I am sure the average american person doesn't even know half of it. Some of it is bush's fault and some of the blame lies elsewhere. People just need to look at everyside and not just their own simple minded point of view. People naturally only see what they want and only hear what they want.

"It's about oil," Robert Ebel told me. Who is Ebel? Formerly the CIA's top oil analyst, he was sent by the Pentagon, about a month before the invasion, to a secret confab in London with Saddam's former oil minister to finalize the plans for "liberating" Iraq's oil industry. In London, Bush's emissary Ebel also instructed Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum, the man the Pentagon would choose as post-OIF oil minister for Iraq, on the correct method of disposing Iraq's crude.

And what did the USA want Iraq to do with Iraq's oil? The answer will surprise many of you: and it is uglier, more twisted, devilish and devious than anything imagined by the most conspiracy-addicted blogger. The answer can be found in a 323-page plan for Iraq's oil secretly drafted by the State Department. Our team got a hold of a copy; how, doesn't matter. The key thing is what's inside this thick Bush diktat: a directive to Iraqis to maintain a state oil company that will "enhance its relationship with OPEC."

Enhance its relationship with OPEC??? How strange: the government of the United States ordering Iraq to support the very OPEC oil cartel which is strangling our nation with outrageously high prices for crude.

Specifically, the system ordered up by the Bush cabal would keep a lid on Iraq's oil production -- limiting Iraq's oil pumping to the tight quota set by Saudi Arabia and the OPEC cartel.You must keep in mind who paid for George's ranch and Dick's bunker: Big Oil. And Big Oil -- and their buck-buddies, the Saudis -- don't make money from pumping more oil, but from pumping less of it. The lower the supply, the higher the price. Three bucks a gallon in the States (and a quid a litre in Britain) means colossal profits for Big Oil, and that makes Dick's ticker go pitty-pat with joy. The top oily-gopolists, the five largest oil companies, pulled in $113 billion in profit in 2005 -- compared to a piddly $34 billion in 2002 before Operation Iraqi Liberation. In other words, it's been a good war for Big Oil.

As per Plan Bush, Bahr Al-Ulum became Iraq's occupation oil minister; the conquered nation "enhanced its relationship with OPEC;" and the price of oil, from Clinton peace-time to Bush war-time, shot up 317%.

In other words, on the third anniversary of invasion, we can say the attack and occupation is, indeed, a Mission Accomplished. However, it wasn't America's mission, nor the Iraqis'. It was a Mission Accomplished for OPEC and Big Oil.

Actually, he is the president and he is the one most accountable to the people. The people have a right to blame/ask him why. The Democratic and Republican parties have no right to blame anyone. They voted for this war and President Bush could not take the country to war without their approval. The same is true of the War powers act. The bottom line is; he is where "the buck stops" but if you disagree with the war vote all of those in congress out regardless of party affiliation. Congress took us to war.

The fact is BUSH LIED about INTELLIGENCE to the People, the Senate and the Congress. PERIOD. He said he had proof of WMD, of other items and none of it was true, items like Yellow Cake Uranium that Ambassador Wilson went to check out and Valerie Plame was "exposed" because that Cheney didn't like. These were all "personal reasons" for Cheney and the President and had NOTHING to do with actual "facts about real weapons" they were simply "setting up a Wag the Dog" scenario that got us into a war that once we were into, they could they say, "well, WE CAN'T NOW "CUT AND RUN. . . " ROFLMAO and "you" people still buy it!

I am so tired of expaining this so I put a link below where you can download the BBC documentary "Why We Fight". Just take an honest look at the other side before you dismiss it as BS.

Saddam was killing his own people by the thousands what would he have done if he had a chance to get terrorist in the United States do you not think it is time to WAKE UP!!!! i personally think he has done the right thing Bush that is.


just one person opinion

You have a point to an extent... Bush is an idiot through and through He is incapable of making or enforcing decisions good or bad one way or the other.

Bush is the greatest real life example of the horrors of a king completely dependent on his advisers. His cabinet and administrative assistants are a collection of corrupt geniuses who are fully aware that Bush is the president and that he is a moron. So they can create and dictate policies that benefit their own agendas and essentially be in the clear when it comes to answering for their crimes once they've pushed it by their puppet who happens to be the president

Hey tower of T: of Course we knew that he had WMOD's and Chemical Arms we were the ones that supplied them and developed them. They were the big guns that would defend Iraq in case anyone got any bright in the way of Taking out Saddam after we hired him to be in charge of what we viewed as possible business prospects in Iraq twenty some-odd years ago. Yes he has them and many have not been found, because once we handed them to him he had the home field advantage he knew what was there how to use it against us and exactly the right way to conceal it should we ever decide to revoke the privilege!

Also: People do need to stop blaming Bush not just because he is too incompetent to carry out or enforce these plans and policies but also because they are the ones that sit around to this very day and wait their education and views to be fed to them by the paid media venues of America...

Until we can go forth and seek knowledge, people in America on all sides of all arguments need to shut up and take the crap they're fed the same way they have been for years. Just because people know how to recycle general concepts for their own self-righteous agendas doesn't make them intelligent or worth listening to.

It only means that they have the ability to retain absorb and reiterate one moron's opinions in an official tone...

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YOU ARE MORON SUPPORTER OF EVIL

G.W.Bush is lier his plan is to create imperialism over middle east and all over the world again

he planed 9/11 attack,s on USA because 5000 Jews,s was absent on there job,s on the day 9/11 what does it mean,s not 1 not 10 not 100 not even 1000 more then 5000 worker,s absent on the same day ?

why he did it ? to help Israel and capture middle east step by step but you American,s don,t understand his policy,s i m so sorry nothing to say about you

I've never understood how people can say he lied, that its about the oil or that it's his "fault". Senate members had access to the same information, the UN nuclear watchdog was supporting many of the claims our own government was making. Even our NATO allies believed the intelligence that was out there and their own intelligence communities believed the same thing. People tend to forget that we were dealing with a brutal, vicious, closed society. We expect everyone to be transparent as we western countries try to be but the sad truth of the matter is that most countries are not. You had a 30+ year old regime that had built its power on force, manipulation, intimidation and secrecy. We KNEW he'd used chemical weapons against Iran and his own people. We KNEW he'd tried to develop nuclear power which the Israelis could not allow so they (Israel) destroyed it. We KNEW he'd been trying for years to aquire nuclear technology and HAD acquired chemical weapons. So why should anyone wonder that we didn't believe him or his regime when they said they didn't have them but continued to play a cat and mouse game.

Personally it never mattered to me whether he had WMD's or not. He was a brutal dictator and the man needed to GO! Period!

How do you defeat an idealogy? You change the world they live in. IF and I know that is a big IF, but IF Iraq can become a true, free democracy then it will spread to neighboring countries as the people in those other countries see what the Iraqi's have and want it for themselves. Arab nations will never accept Western Democracy just because we say its a better way. They will only accept it if they see it working in another Arab country.

We Americans too often want to turn a blind eye to what goes on in the rest of the world. We want to pretend that what happens "over there" is not our problem until it rises up and bites on the butt. Is freedom worth fighting for ONLY if it means fighting for our OWN freedom? Or is it an idea worth fighting for to hopefully one day free all people? I think Bush has done the right thing in each of his decisions to go to war in Afghanistan and Iraq. They haven't always been the most popular decisions but they have been what HE thought were the right decisions. Like him or not you should at least respect his character to stand behind what he believes to be the right thing to do rather than the most popular thing to do. At least he doesn't base his decision on opinion polls from the New York Times. The difference between a statesman and a politician are that a politician thinks about the next election while a statesman thinks about the next generation.

It's easy when you're the one on the outside and change your mind about something to start throwing stones.

Because he is the President.

And not everyone blames President Bush for this war. Some of us blame the Islamic fanatics.