The overall count for deaths in Iraq has reached 4000 after a roadside bombing in Baghdad, 4 soldiers were killed. This being the 6th year since the troops were deployed out, when is this going to come to an end and a call for a withdrawl of our American forces?
As much as everyone on here may disagree with me it seems to be that we are winning the war. As much as i hate to say it 4,000 troops is nothing compared to most battles from most wars on this earth and this is 4,000 over a 5 year span. Hopefully when we leave the middle east (if we do) people will recognize the fact that it is safer when the time comes.
ReplyDeleteI'm worried that this war may last about twenty years i don't understand why we are there how is this benefitting America
ReplyDeleteWhy does everything have to do with benefiting us? We took an evil man out of power and are slowly and maybe surly making Iraq a safe place with a working democracy(soon hopefully). And the hope is that supposedly we will have influence on their trade and profit in the long run.
ReplyDeleteI am not saying it isn't benefiting us. When is the last time America has gone to war without thinking about themselves ;). Its sadly mostly if not all about money and power. I am just glad that Hussein is no longer controlling that country, he is a very evil person
ReplyDeleteHow many died in the Vietnam war? World War II? World War I? How long did those wars last? And how often were they displayed on television for other people to dictate?
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ReplyDeleteit's obvious that pulling are troops out of Iraq will include a lot of preparation and cleaning up to do. A situation of this magnitude doesn't just clean itself up. Many of the soldiers fighting right now still believe that they are making progress overseas, and who are we to say that they aren't?
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4000 troops over a span of 6 years is a meaning of well equiped and trained troops. Our soilders made a commitment for our country but the president control the troops. The war will still go on because the loophole is created to steal oil for some high society people. Anyway, this war is not like WW1 or a major war, it's just between US, Great Britain (that pulled out when they stoled enough oil), some special forces (friends of US), and Middle East. If I was president I would pull the troops out and find a new way to fuel cars. The problem, how are you to drive a mustang on corn fuel, this would hinder the idea of a muscle car!
ReplyDeleteI feel that the U.S. should bring our soldiers home. These people are being killed for what? Parents are losing son/daughter, children losing a father/mother.
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ReplyDeleteWe're not just their for fuel. When I hear people complain about us being in Iraq, I think of September 11 and I don't question for one second why we are there. Sure it's hard, but who ever said war was easy? When I spoke to a friend of mine, I will just call her J, who just got back from Iraq, she said she was glad to have been there, and she wants nothing more in the world but to go back, she wants to go back. And who are we to say otherwise? Civilians who haven't seen what J has seen? She believes we're making progress there, she knows why we are there, and she wants us to finish what we have started. All of her friends went with her, even her husband. She felt a sense of pride knowing that she was contributing to something there, even if it was something small. And for that, hearing her words, and her friends, and her husbands, I no longer doubt.
ReplyDeleteSome people don't get the luxury of going off to war with their loved ones. And maybe you should listen objectively to some other people's accounts of Iraq.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand the relationship between the Iraq War and 9/11/01. I can't just think of the World Trade Center collapsing and feel justified about invading Iraq.
We invaded Afghanistan looking for terrorist because of 9/11/01, not Iraq. We invaded Iraq because of Saddam Hussein was suppose to have weapons of mass destruction.
ReplyDeleteI do not have a black753 in my gradebook, so I can't give you credit for this unless you put your name on it.
ReplyDeleteJones is right. We went to Afghanistan after 9/11, not Iraq. Iraq was a completely separate mission, one that was supposed to look for weapons of mass destruction. My husband went in 2003, and the troops' morale was crushed after they got there only find out that that was not the reason they went. No trained soldier wants to think he is going to war for a good cause (weapons of mass destruction/Sadam Hussein), only to find out they are now there for reasons that they are not trained for (giving democracy to a people). Many soldiers feel they have been lied to. It is really hard for soldiers to keep their motivation and focus if they don't really know why they are in a war. Giving democracy to a people, is a political agenda, NOT one that should be the task of a military.
ReplyDeleteAfter reading this post, it has given me a totally different perspective toward the war. At first I had always thought that the war was for nothing; that Bush had troops over there just to secure the fact that nothing concerning terrorism were to happen again. Now that I realize how some and most of the troops feel about the war, I do kinda support it a lot more than I used to. Knowing that the troops are over there willingly, fighting for something they believe in, whether it be freedom or saftey, we should now know that they are not over there against their willing fighting a force that is for nothing.
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