Fahrenheit 9/11

The Fahrenheit 9/11 was made before Bush’s term was over so that the American people didn’t vote for him a second time. In this film the claim that I do agree with Moore is about the attack in Iraq. Moore states, “On March 19th, 2003, George W. Bush and the United States Military invaded Iraq, which had never attacked or threatened to attack the United States. A nation that had never murdered a single American citizen.” President Bush used scare tactics on the American by saying that Iraq was hiding weapons of mass destruction that were going to be used to attack the U.S. once again. The decision for the Iraq war had nothing to do with 9/11, the war on terrorism, the weapons of mass destruction, or Iraqi human rights; oil was the main purpose of the war. If Iraq really had weapons of mass destruction I think Bush would not have invaded Iraq because of the risk of another attack. Bush knew the entire time that Iraq didn’t have anything to do with the terrorist attack of 9/11 and that there was no weapons because on August 6, 2001 Bush was notified that Osama bin Laden was planning on hijacking airplanes to attack America. But, he ignored the fact and went fishing that same day instead of calling a meeting to discuss terrorism in the U.S. By attacking Iraq Bush benefited because of his personal investments in oil drilling companies and the wealthy oil men who finance his election campaigns. I read an article that states that Bush had already decided to invade Iraq six months before September 11th, and the reason was to improve Western access to Iraqi oil. The war in Iraq was unnecessary and caused a lot of innocent people to die and lose their family and homes, and it all happened for the love of money.