Narrative Essay On The Iraq War

Justification of the War in Iraq Despite contrary belief, the Iraq War can certainly be justified. This war began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by U.S troops under the command of former president, George W. Bush. This invasion can be vindicated for several reasons. The greatest is that Iraq was a severe menace to its own people due to a corrupt and distorted government, spearheaded by the dictator, Saddam Hussein. Furthermore, Iraq was a substantial threat to other nations in the world, including the United States of America because of its previous possession of weapons of mass destruction and ties with terrorist groups. It would be misleading to not mention the economic gains that motivated the American government to occupy Iraq.

     According to the author Tim O’Brien, people tend to readily accept the ‘facts’ presented of what happened during a war. People do not consider the existence of fallacies regarding the actual stories of what happens in wars, few consider that the ‘facts’ of an incident often change through people’s words. The film ‘Saving the Private Ryan’ by Steven Spielberg features both facts and seemingness part of the war story. Since it is so difficult to fully describe a war using human language, Spielberg ended up revising his stories to make sense out of it. Spielberg included parts that did not occur or exclude parts that did occur in order to make their stories seem more credible. According

Since the war on Iraq began on March 20, 2003, at least 1,402 coalition troops have died and 9,326 U.S. troops have been wounded in action. This is no small number and the count grows daily. One would hope, then, that these men and women were sent to war with just cause and as a last resort. However, as the cloud of apprehension and rhetoric surrounding the war has begun to settle, it has become clear that the Bush administration relied on deeply flawed analyses to make its case for war to the United Nations and to the American people, rushing this country, and its soldiers, into war. This is not to say that this war was waged against a blameless regime or that our soldiers have died

On August 2nd, 1990 Iraqi military forces invaded and occupied the small Arab state of Kuwait. The order was given by Iraqi dictatorial president Saddam Hussein. His aim was apparently to take control Kuwait's oil reserves (despite its small size Kuwait is a huge oil producer; it has about 10 per cent of the world's oil reserves ). Iraq accused Kuwait, and also the United Arab Emirates, of breaking agreements that limit oil production in the Middle East. According to Saddam Hussein, this brought down world oil prices severely and caused financial loss of billions of dollars in Iraq's annual revenue.

     There are many views, theories, perspectives, and ideas pertaining to the War in Iraq. Throughout the last three years, as more and more information becomes available, the reasons for going to war with Iraq has changed. The War in Iraq would be considered a social movement. Therefore, it has many collective action frames, which legitimize a set of beliefs about a certain action or movement.

The Iraqi War This is a discursive essay for the argument against America going to war with Iraq. In this essay, I will briefly include a summary about Iraq and go on to give evidence about previous incidents and other significant points that finally led to the war. Iraq is a dictatorship that was under the rule of the tyrant Saddam Hussein until the coalition forces invaded and toppled the Iraqi regime. Saddam Hussein officially became a dictator in the year 1979.

I do not subscribe to the fashionable notion of moral equivalence between all deeply-held beliefs. I believe in the rights of the individual over the collective. I believe democracy is better than dictatorship, both morally and practically. Not necessarily democracy as we or the Americans or the French practice it, but the idea that in every possible practical way, you should let people make their own decisions, and if these decisions need to be circumscribed in any way, then you should only do it with the explicit approval of a majority of the people in question. And above all that a people must be able to change governments and leaders without resorting to force.

Storm clouds covered the Vietnamese sky, turning it a dark, angry gray. Lightning tore its long, bony fingers through the black fabric of the sky, stretching the tips for the earth. The light threw eerie shadows of the trees onto the ground throughout the jungle. Thunder rolled across the war-torn earth like a lion’s roar on the open African savannah. Rain relentlessly pounded every square inch of the earth.

I think because of this event, I’ve started to force myself to go to school no matter how awful I feel because I was always told school comes first before anything. My goal was to just survive through the pain. This patterned continued of sleepless nights, complaining of headaches, and a constant dull pain in the side of my head. My teachers and my parents were fed up with my whining about it and my constant crying that just finally, I believe it was 3 days later, but it felt like a week before they took me to the hospital. However, none of the hospitals my father took me to have the equipment to treat me or didn’t take our insurance this was at least 4 different hospitals in the Detroit

     This I’ll admit was a very interesting book that looked at what could have really caused the Iraq war and whether we really had to go to war. The book talks about the flaws with the reasons that Bush proposed for going to war with Iraq and why we haven’t had a fuller victory yet. The book basically goes into details about the four observations that arise from examining certain aspects of the war and afterwards. In the next few pages I’ll be summarizing the book then stating my analysis and opinions about ideas presented in the book.

In 2003, President George W. Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell launched an invasion of the nation of Iraq. United States Secretary of State Colin Powell outlined the reasons Iraq posed a threat to international security in a speech he gave at the United Nations. Iraq’s nuclear weapons program concerned the Bush administration. Fearing Iraq might use this program to act aggressively in the region, and wanting to secure oil supplies and a friendly regime, the administration pursued a plan of action to remove Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from power (FLS 2016, 43). A constant secure supply of oil stood as a cornerstone of the military-industrial complex thriving in the United States and a friendly regime in such an oil rich country remained an important objective of President Bush. This directly conflicted with the desire of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq to remain in power.

In the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon of the United States of America on September 11, 2001, the American people banded together with a shared sense of patriotism and a willingness to punish those responsible. There was no divide between retaliation against the terrorist organizations that performed the strike and the countries of origin that retained them and millions of innocent civilians in the eyes of the United States government. As war ensued throughout Afghanistan, to extinguish al-Qaeda and remove the Taliban from governmental power, and Yemen, which was believe to be harboring al-Qaeda members, about 36 million people worldwide took part in protest against commencing war in Iraq, which was believe to be bearing weapons of mass destruction and Saddam Husseins’ dictatorship in Iraq having ties with al-Qaeda.

Before the invasion to Iraq and during the war, many Americans were misinformed about the Iraq issue. They played a significant role in building and maintaining the support for this military operation. A study called Misperceptions, the Media and the Iraq War by The Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) showed that many people held misperception about three main topics: involvement of the Iraqi government in 9/11 and Al Qaeda, evidence of the weapons of mass destruction, and favorable views of world public opinion. According to their polls, 57% of people thought that Iraq was directly involved in the 9/11 attacks or gave substantial support to Al Qaeda. Moreover, 22% of respondents believed that weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq after the war and that Iraq actually used weapons of mass destruction during the war, and one-third thought that world public opinion has approved of the US going to war with Iraq.

Sergeant Nathan Harris served two tours in the Echo Company 2nd Battalion 8th Regiment of the US Marine Corp. In the summer of 2009, when the fighting was at its highest ever since the first initial attack, he was severely wounded and relieved of his duties. Once he is sent home he is left to deal with the physical pain and hardship of rehabbing his broken hip. Along with the physical pain, he fights to keep his mental health stable as well. Struggling with the effects of war on his brain alongside the struggle of taking handfuls of narcotics each day without becoming dependent on them. His story is just a glimpse of what thousands of men and women deal with after returning home from the battlefield.

United Kingdom has voted in favor of all the resolutions in which resolution 1-1 is based on; 1189 (1998), 1269 (1999), 1368 (2001), and 1373 (2001). Thus, demonstrating a strong commitment to condemn terrorist attacks over the years. Once again, United Kingdom will vote in favor of a resolution that is believed to maintain worldwide peace and security, to condemn terrorist acts, and to foster cooperation between nations in order to solve the conflict.