War in Iraq

War in Iraq

Picture this, you, in a 3rd world country, no friends no family for thousands of miles, hungry, not feeling so well, tired, exhausted and being forced to fight thousands of people who want you out of there country? Fun? I wouldn’t think so… This is a reality for thousands of American Soldiers stationed in Iraq and maybe your reality if the draft is reinstated. Now, picture this. You’re watching the news, they are calling out birthdays, oh they choose yours, but uh oh this is for a draft. You are now being shipped over to Iraq to fight with out choice. Easy as that. But what are you fighting for? Freedom, safety, your country? Maybe… But the war is costing your home country 140 billion dollars so far and so far killed 1101 American Soldiers and we found no weapons of mass destruction or anything else that brought us to war in the 1st place. So good luck…

Yes the war in Iraq is costing our country over 140 billion, so far… Our state almost 5 billion dollars and our city 58.5 million dollars! This is unfair. We could have fully funded global anti-hunger efforts for 5 years, fully funded world wide AIDS programs for 14 years, built 1,300,000 homes for the homeless, put 19,000,000 kids into preschool, gave 85,000,000 kids health insurance for a whole year or even gave out 7,000,000 4-year scholarships to students at public universities! Instead we are at war. With all that money we could of made this country so safe no one would fear terrorism. The American deficit reached below 400 billion dollars which as low as its been since the 40’s while Bush was in office attacking Iraq. Too much money on something so pointless.

Pointless? Yes pointless. Do you remember why we originally went to war with Iraq? Bush told us they had weapons of mass destruction. Do they? No. Why are we still there? I don’t know… do you? After searching Iraq for weapons and coming up empty handed George Bush decided he did not like Sadam Hussein and the world would be much safer with out him so he attacks. He did not even have the support of the European Union. Opposing countries included France, Germany, Russia, Greece, Belgium and Belarus. He is now trying to make Iraq a democracy, like the American government, which is not a bad idea at all. There is just way too much opposition from Iraq, they obviously do not want it, let them have there dictatorship, it is not our problem. This is a useless war now. We do have to give credit to the many countries that helped us by sending in there own troops to Iraq. Mainly England, Italy and Poland who sent a combined total of almost 15,000 troops