President George W. Bush, It has come to my attention that the media has been cluttered with seemingly endless coverage of your administration’s idea to enter into a war with Iraq, from the images of Saddam Hussein as a tyrannical dictator to the stories of angered citizens burning American flags and protesting, happy with Hussein’s reign over the country. With this confusing mixture of propaganda, it is increasingly difficult to determine whether or not you and your administration’s idea to invade Iraq was just. Considering a variety of different analytical views and coverage of the time before the invasion, I can conclude that America was unjust in its decision to enter into the war in Iraq. By examining the reasons for going to war, I
There has been much debate in the past about the effectiveness of President George W. Bush’s presidency in regards to his involvement in the Iraq war. The negativity surrounding his presidency began during his January 29, 2002 State of the Union address, President Bush steered public focus on Iraq, which he labeled as part of the "axis of evil" aligned with terrorists and posing "a grave and growing danger" to U.S. interests through its possession of "weapons of mass destruction". In the latter half of 2002, the Central Intelligence Agency reports requested by the Administration contained reports that Saddam Hussein was intent on reconstituting Iraq’s nuclear weapons programs, had not properly accounted for Iraqi biological
Years before 9/11, we exploited Latin American countries and left their people impoverished. Prior to that, we started a war with Vietnam, one which the CIA grew extremley rich off of, and destroyed the country. Today, whether 9/11 was conspiricy or not, we destroyed a country which poised no threat to the United States what so ever in Iraq; and it's going to
Al-Qaeda, the terrorist group that he founded in the early 1980’s, has been encouraging other minor terrorists to take action, making the world an over-all more dangerous place to live. Among his fellow terrorists, he is a revered hero, but all over the world, he is seen as a villain, a power-hungry monster greedy for power and attention. Because of bin Laden’s treacherous deeds, the United States has lost over 100 billion dollars in revenue, billions more by invading
One obstacle that today’s president Barack Obama had to deal with was the capture or death of the notorious terrorist Osama Bin Laden. Ever since the attack of 9/11 Bin Laden had been on hiding no here to be found. When President Barack Obama became president there was pressure on him to capture this terrorist, since the Bush administration failed to do so Obama wanted to close this chapter of the war on terror. The only way to end this Obama had to be successful on capturing or killing the most wanted man in the United States. After years of searching for Bin Laden the CIA had gotten a break in late 2010.
When Ronald Reagan, a staunch opponent of communism, was elected president, he increased defense spending and the U.S. military saw successful action and places like Grenada and Panama. In the 1990’s the communist Soviet Union, or the “Evil Empire,” as Reagan jokingly called them, collapsed. America’s long standing advisory for half a century was now gone. Even though there was no longer a need to fight communism at the time the U.S. relished its position as the lone economic and military superpower so much that America once again that the nation was sometimes referred to as “word police.” Events that transpired during the Reagan administration, as well as the dissolution of the Soviet Union were especially significant events prior to the Gulf War because they reinstated the belief in Americans that they are obligated to police the world for the sake of democracy and promoting their national
By 1986 the Soviet economy suffered from both hidden inflation and pervasive supply shortages which were aggravated by an increasingly open black market that undermined the official economy. In addition, the USSR spent a lot on the military, they lost over 15,000 soldiers in the war against Afghanistan which had cost them $8 billion per annum. They also overspent in the Reagan years, the defence spending increased by $32.6 billion as they tried to compete with the USA STAR WARS programme but could not compete. Also, the USSR spent $40 billion propping up Communist Governments throughout the world. The USSR was left behind by the new wave of industrialisation as it was based on information technology, they were left desperate for Western technology.
President Obama is trying to be re-elected, so he is using the accomplishment of killing Osama Bin Laden, and having all of the soldiers taken out of Iraq. If only a couple thousand soldiers are leaving Iraq at a time then they can quickly get the last 3-5 thousand soldiers that are left there back home soon. Another thing to consider would be, what if the next president wants soldiers back in Iraq or in other countries like Kuwait? There is a lot of controversy on how many soldiers are still soldiers in Iraq. A solution to this problem would be, take out all of the soldiers that are left in Iraq and let the Iraqi government solve their own problems.
More than 300,000 American troops had been killed or wounded in the overseas battle ("the claim"). The country had plummeted into debt to cover its own military costs and then, post-war, was forced to forgive other countries their debts to the United States. This unloaded a tremendous burden of debt onto America and thus sent the country into the Great
Counterargument: While it is true that Service member will likely die in conflicts protecting the United States, they should only be placed in a dangerous situation when it is absolutely essential to the safety of America. Iraq’s threat to the United States was very low compared to other countries at the time of the invasion. 4,316 American deaths and 31,342 Americans wounded in Iraq as of June 18, 2009. Because the war has cost billions of taxpayer dollars. (UA: Wasting money is bad) The Iraq war has cost $679,593,000,000 dollars as of June