Should Our Soldiers Stay in Iraq?
Essay title: Should Our Soldiers Stay in Iraq?
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Should Our Soldiers Stay in Iraq?
What is a Soldier? Definition of a Soldier: one engaged in military service and especially in the army; an enlisted man or woman; a skilled warrior Merriam-Webster (n.d.) Retrieved September 19, 2007 from
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likely for all who deploy until at least June, 2008. Stars and Stripes, pp.1. America when will we take a stand and free our soldiers from a war that should not have been started? Let our soldiers leave Iraq!
The Iraq invasion started March of two thousand and three was conducted by the United States and several other countries such as, United Kingdom, Poland, Australia and Denmark. President Bush had told the United States that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, assisted Al Qaeda in terrorism and we needed to free the Iraqi people. Many of the United States allies disagreed with the invasion of Iraq. Wikipedia (n.d.) Retrieved September 30, 2007 from
President Bush was aboard the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003 above his head read a sign “Mission Accomplished”. The president also states the United States Navy placed the banner on the boat he had nothing to do with the banner. Actually the White House made the banner. Bash, D. (2003, May) White House pressed on “mission accomplished” sign. Retrieved August 30, 2007, from www.cnn.com. Regardless who made the sign the fact remains on May 1, 2003 the administration announced “mission accomplished” and with said, four years later we are still in Iraq with additional casualties.
The men and women of the Armed Forces joined voluntarily for various reasons
such as, education perks, serving their country (not necessarily in war) or a steady pay
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check. Soldiers are proud of doing their job but the administration is selling them out. How is the President going to say that the mission was accomplished and still have the soldiers in Iraq? Since the invasion of Iraq the military has spent at least one million tours in Iraq.
The deaths in Iraq has left many families without love ones, reshaping communities and dividing a nation. The Human Cost of War. Newsweek, Vol. 149, Issue 14. Retrieved September 30, 2007, from EBSCOhost database. As of September twenty ninth two thousand and seven the death toll in Iraq has reached a high of 4,103; included in this number is one hundred and seventy from United Kingdom. The amount of wounded soldiers in Iraq total is 36,943 as of August 31, 2007. Iraq Coalition Casualty Count. Retrieved September 30, 2007, from
The War in Iraq has affected our Soldiers in ways that we may never know or understand. One out of eight soldiers is diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder; most of the time is