Iraq Was Worth Our Time Corruption and terror have spewed from the middle eastern country of Iraq. Arrests without cause and an unstable economy have been the least of this country’s problems. Ranging from public executions to the repeated raping of those who spoke out against the government, the Iraqi people truly lived in utter terror. Saddam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, ruled with an iron fist, crushing all of opposition to his regime and forcing the Iraqi people to remain loyal out of fear for their lives. Iraq, under the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, was in complete chaos; however, with the support of the United States, this middle eastern country was soon able to regain its former glory and establish a thriving democracy.
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Carlisle, General Hussein Kamal, the former director of Iraq’s Military Industrialization Corporation, and Saddam’s son in law fled from Iraq with his family. They carried with them crates full of documents providing explicit details for plans of the future construction of Weapons of Mass Destruction, or WMD’s. Kamal was captured after crossing the Iraqi border, and the intelligence he carried was brought to the attention of the United States (Carlisle 36). In light of these events, further documents were eventually recovered revealing programs for the construction of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Iraqi officials admitted that they had a biological weapons program. However, they denied that the materials were being weaponized. They soon reversed their statement admitting that they were in possession of biological weapons of mass destruction. This proved that Iraq was not only in the direct possession of weapons of mass destruction, but that they could not be trusted as well. The United Nations, having been informed of the current events, sent inspectors to Iraq to look for its potential WMD facilities. Upon their arrival, the weapons of mass destruction construction sites had been cleared out, allowing the UN to come to the conclusion that Iraq was never in direct possession of weapons of mass destruction. However this was a direct contradiction to what the Iraqi officials had previously stated. Therefore, where did those biological weapons go? Jeffrey Richelson’s article, “Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction” describes how it had appeared that the United States had been given faulty information. After two Iraqi mobile laboratories had been seized, and a thorough investigation led by the CIA, those facilities were indeed found to be the alleged weapons of mass destruction’s storage containers. Proving that the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were in existence at one point in time. Unfortunately, the Iraqi weapons of
Carlisle, General Hussein Kamal, the former director of Iraq’s Military Industrialization Corporation, and Saddam’s son in law fled from Iraq with his family. They carried with them crates full of documents providing explicit details for plans of the future construction of Weapons of Mass Destruction, or WMD’s. Kamal was captured after crossing the Iraqi border, and the intelligence he carried was brought to the attention of the United States (Carlisle 36). In light of these events, further documents were eventually recovered revealing programs for the construction of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Iraqi officials admitted that they had a biological weapons program. However, they denied that the materials were being weaponized. They soon reversed their statement admitting that they were in possession of biological weapons of mass destruction. This proved that Iraq was not only in the direct possession of weapons of mass destruction, but that they could not be trusted as well. The United Nations, having been informed of the current events, sent inspectors to Iraq to look for its potential WMD facilities. Upon their arrival, the weapons of mass destruction construction sites had been cleared out, allowing the UN to come to the conclusion that Iraq was never in direct possession of weapons of mass destruction. However this was a direct contradiction to what the Iraqi officials had previously stated. Therefore, where did those biological weapons go? Jeffrey Richelson’s article, “Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction” describes how it had appeared that the United States had been given faulty information. After two Iraqi mobile laboratories had been seized, and a thorough investigation led by the CIA, those facilities were indeed found to be the alleged weapons of mass destruction’s storage containers. Proving that the Iraqi weapons of mass destruction were in existence at one point in time. Unfortunately, the Iraqi weapons of