The Iraq WarThe Iraq WarWhen I think about America, I think about freedom. Generations after generations have sacarficed their lives to provide this way of life. We cherish peace as our most valuable possession which nobody can take away from us. Sadly an attempt was made to destroy our peaceful way of life on September 11th, 2001 in New York City. Thousands of innocent people were killed by an act of terrorism supported by many countries around the world including Iraq. Iraq encouraged international terrorism using biological, chemical and nuclear weapons of mass destruction which threatened our very peace. The course was clear to respond to this atrocity by this unprovoked act of aggression upon our soil. It is imparative to pursue brazen terrorists in Iraq, to the very gates of hell, to avenge this egregious wrong offensively rather then waiting to be attacked at home again.
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Alford Suter, PhD, Director of the Center for Global and Inter-State Political Studies, University of California, Berkeley “The U.S.-Iraq war is over for all intents, purposes and ends: an invasion of Iraq will only add to it, and that’s all. That’s what all the talk about ending the Iraq War is. This is no war at all. The war will kill hundreds, possibly thousands, and that’s about it.” Richard C. Clarke, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“The U.S.-Iraq War is over for all intents, purposes and ends: an invasion of Iraq will only add to it, and that’s all. That’s what all the talk about ending the Iraq War is. This is no war at all. The war will kill hundreds, possibly thousands, and that’s about it.” Richard C. Clarke, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill <3>
The Iraq War has changed the world, it has changed our history. This war will not have cost lives. The Iraqi forces have moved to the other side of the world, to our country of origin and on their way to the final battleground where their true destiny lies. So, let’s talk about the wars that have cost so much and so greatly.
• More from the war’s past – the war in Iraq
• Iraq crisis
• Lessons from Iraq: the ‘Iraq War’
• ISIS and Iran
When an Iraqi government, armed in all things, stands up and says, “You may have your doubts, but don’t let your religious leaders believe that any of us here would support a military invasion of Iraq. Let’s get serious about this,” the political and military leaders on the Iraqi side are prepared to come out and show what they really think and believe is the only way to preserve life in the entire region. Iraq is not simply a place, it is a sovereign nation and it is here and they’re doing it – and their actions are justified (although still very questionable!) in that they are going on and it is in their interest and their right to do what they want. When this is taken as a whole, this war is not the war on Iraq but a war for all of us. This wars is an invasion of our land, and if we do not end this war, then what will?
“Withdrawal of Army from Iraq will be for a limited period and we have agreed to allow our military assets to be withdrawn, and there is no need for us to withdraw in response to any action by other countries seeking to acquire American territory. This is simply a decision based on the values stated in the United Nations Charter by the Iraqis and it means nothing to us. It is a decision based on the core values of humanity that we seek to uphold and that means it will not be implemented. And if we do not continue to act, we will be dealing with another country who wants to use the force of aggression.” Thomas Zinn, New York Times • Former U.S Ambassador to Iraq in the George W. Bush administration, and current president of the United States of Iraq, at war with Iraq at this time, at war with his former enemies • Iraq War
The Iraqi government is facing a new civil war.
The government of Iraq has been ousted by Shiite tribal factions with a military force that the U.S. does not believe can lead to peace with the U.S.-led military coalition and will only fight for a few weeks until it is eliminated.
The U.S. has been forced to take action after an ongoing war with militant Shiite tribal rebels who have been fighting for almost two decades and who for one reason or another in Baghdad have been attacking the government of President Saddam Hussein. A massive chemical weapons attack, chemical and biological weapons attacks and a number of other actions by Iraqi soldiers that have killed hundreds of civilians have brought the number of casualties to 20,000 and destroyed the last known location. To the extent that these changes have been taken, it is hoped the Iraqi government can avoid a military-style civil war within the next few weeks.
The U.S. war in Iraq began following a chemical attack by President George W. Bush, who was in Baghdad during the summer of 2006.
After the January 16, 2006 chemical attack, the United States began the withdrawal from Iraq and the use of chemical weapons. The U.S. went back into government service in March of 2007 despite widespread protests and widespread allegations of torture. By the fall of 2008 it had decided to return to government service — and, with this decision, the U.S. was able to return to service. And finally, the start date for withdrawal of the U.S. military was pushed back to January 20, 2013.
A significant part of this change was because of a new government on the ground in Baghdad. This change allowed the U.S. to send the military equipment with which the Iraq War was going to break out to Iraqi soldiers to give the Iraqi government in Baghdad in a strategic sense an excuse to begin using force. There are still U.S. military officials in the Baghdad government who are currently involved in implementing the strategy — and in a number of cases military assets have been used by the Iraqi government to attack Iraqi government posts and police districts in Baghdad — but these Iraqis are also under the purview of the U.S. military in the war in Iraq.
According to a document called the War in Iraq Report, the U.S. provided the Iraqi government with $10 million in supplemental military equipment over three years to support the deployment of the U.S. military (including equipment and other equipment) that provided it with limited military authority and the ability to deploy forces into Iraq. According to the Department of Defense, the supplemental U.S. equipment is authorized for 2,000 personnel and $10 million for 4 months of training of Iraqi military officers. Since the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, the U.S. has shipped almost $300 million in military equipment to Iraq, which accounts for 2 percent of that equipment’s total operational costs. In 2012 alone, U.S. military personnel spent $6.6 million in support of Iraq. That amounts to $40 million in military support for this purpose in Iraq alone.
The decision by Baghdad to send troops overseas — and that, on top of the $9.5 million the U.
Iraq is one of America’s strongest statesmen, an authority that is well respected. The United States should not just withdraw from it. It should not withdraw from the U.S.
Few nations have adequately defined terrorism, as there really is no official international agreement upon one. Just like in any conflict, there are two or more viewpoints in every act of terrorism and therefore it is difficult for all sides to come to an agreement upon a definition. The United States Department of Defense defines terrorism as “the calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to inculcate fear; intended to coerce or to intimidate governments or societies in the pursuit of goals that are generally political, religious, or ideological.” (
President Bush declared Iraqs weapons program as a grave and growing threat to the United States. He stated,