Iraq War

PTSD Epidemic The government sends the military off to fight wars. The cost of these wars are growing due to the medical treatment cost of taking care of the people that were sent off to fight for our country. Five percent of soldiers are diagnosed with PTSD, but since the Iraq and Afghanistan war that number has increased to eight percent. The number of people with PTSD went from 190,000 to about a half million. To add to the number of military and veterans that are being diagnosed PTSD. The government

The war on Afghanistan and Iraq was a learning experience for the United States foreign policy. On September 11th, 2001 nineteen Al Qaeda members hijacked four planes, two of which crashed into the world trade center, another into the pentagon and the last into Shanksville, Pennsylvania (Scholastic). The man who was behind this attack was Osama bin Laden and with refusal to hand him over, the United States quickly prompted an attack on Afghanistan. The second war which began in 2003 was due to the

Paper December 16, 2014 Is America Winning the War in Iraq? “What a cruel thing is war: to separate and destroy families and friends, and mar the purest joys and happiness God has granted us in this world; to fill our hearts with hatred instead of love for our neighbors, and to devastate the fair face of this beautiful world.” Said Robert E. Lee. Who actually wins in war? In a sense, war is the killing of our own brothers & sisters. The fact that war is used to resolve political issues is sickening

Nuremberg tribunal described one country initiating a war of aggression against another country as,“not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole" (The economist). (1)The Bush administration committed this supreme crime on March 19th, 2003, when the US led an international coalition and invaded sovereign country of Iraq. An invasion based on questionable intelligence and

The Iraq war also known as the Second Persian Gulf War begin in March 19, 2003. In 2007 violence in Iraq declined and the Unites States increasingly decreased its military presence. The Unites States formally ended their involvement in December 2011. The 2003 invasion of Iraq coined Operation Iraqi Freedom signaled the beginning of the war in Iraq. The United States led a coalition with the purpose of capturing Saddam Hussein president of Iraq. In May 2003 Saddam Hussein was captured by the United

For Iraq, also failing to begin that endeavor with a clear endstate and what the international community or the United States should do with Iraq after we broke it has proven costly not just to Iraqis and Americans, but now to the stability of the entire region. Unilateral action is always risky and, in this instance, despite our partners in the conflict, it has proven unwise not only for the outcome but for the damage to our strategic influence. Just as Truman and Marshall were concerned about

More Than 1000 soldiers have died in The middle east. In a nation of more than 306 million people, only the tiniest percentage of Americans have sacrificed to fight the long war in Iraq. As of last week, that war's sixth anniversary, at least 4,260 service members had died in Iraq, and more than 31,000 wounded soldiers. “The Army has been stretched so thin, in fact, that more than 140,000 troops have been ordered to serve on combat duty after their enlistments ended. That practice is known officially

Pro War in Iraq 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

Looking at the Iraq War and Applying it to the Ideas and Principles of the Just War Theory and Sun-Tzu’s The Art of War The war in Iraq, which started in March 2003 and lasted 8 years and 9 months, is the third longest war in American history. The invasion and the war itself faced tremendous criticism from in and outside the United States in which many called the venture a total disaster. The Brown University Institute for International studies estimates that the war caused around 189,000 civilian

The Gulf war and the Iraq war were two wars in which the primary antagonist was Saddam Hussein. These two are current wars that coercied the establishment of the Middle East, as well as global security, it has been contemplated that the real direction leading toward the intervention of the west in both wars, was not what the alliance wanted that was, led by the United States. This brought about justifying their intervention, instead of targeting the retaliation from the West, which was protected