The Consequences Of The Iraq War

Improved Essays
March 20 2003 was the day everything changed, this was the day American troops stepped foot onto the foreign desert land that.US now know of as Iraq. Many people have their own opinion about if the United States made the right decision deciding to go to war with this country. So, although the US gained much intel, helped locals and executed Saddam….. Was it the right decision considering all the consequences (good and bad) of the invading and picking apart of Iraq. There are both positive and negative consequences that have come from the US invading and picking apart Iraq.You can find an opinion anywhere from anyone in this country but which one is the right or more correct opinion? Is there a right opinion?
The United States should not have gone to war becuase: most of the alleged mass destruction were lies and misperception of Iraq, the amount of money that has been spent on the war, the amount of lives taken (american, taliban, children, men, women, it doesn 't matter), the chaos caused by iraq 's government being picked apart and shut down, all the looting, rape, etc. and foremost the illegal actions that were taken to start the war with Iraq. With all this
…show more content…
the United Nations attempted to ensure that Iraq had fully disposed of all its weapons of mass destruction and the capabilities to make those weapons. Weapons of Mass Destruction included chemical weapons, such as poison gas and biological weapons that would carry diseases such as anthrax, Nuclear weapons such as the atomic bombs the United States used against Japan at the end of World War II were also a type of WMD, as were radiological weapons, or “dirty bombs.” that consisted of a high-explosive weapon that dispersed radioactive material over a wide area. All such weapons could cause “mass destruction” because a single weapon could kill thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, with one detonation. (Print source war in

Related Documents

  • Great Essays

    The Product of Fear War is one of the inevitable consequences of the fall of man. Fear is a major factor in beginning this mass conflict, called war. Elie Wiesel the author of the autobiography, Night includes a statement in his book of the fear he experienced when he was surviving the Holocaust, “I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man” (68). This quote or statement from his book discusses fear as controlling his belief in God and doubting his survival.…

    • 1683 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    What would you do, if you woke up from an after war or gun battle and your team that are more like family that teammates, are around you dead. The article “On WWII: The Horrible waste of war” by author Ernie Pyle, explains how a veteran that just have woken up from an after war on France Normandy on June 16 and 17, how he saw the major destruction the war had made, and see’s dead men everywhere from his team and the opponents, equipment scattered along the shore and on the beach. He notices how the dogs are along the shore waiting for their owner that are floating in the water, not knowing that they will never come back. When he got up on a small hill just enough high that he could see everything that he walked by and still missed some…

    • 1212 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Terrorism Dbq

    • 1162 Words
    • 5 Pages

    This lead to the wars becoming controversial in American and the American foreign policy being questioned as a few thousand were killed in the 9/11 attacks, but many, many more were killed in countries we fought in…

    • 1162 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The consequences from the Iraq War resulted with 2,500 American deaths, tens of thousands of death of Iraqis many being civilians, humanitarian crisis, political and economic negative consequences, etc. President Bush’s reason to invade Iraq was to spread liberty around the world and to make world peace. After researching, many people do not truly do not think we had a legitimate enough reason to invade Iraq. I believe this goes back to the mentality America has of overthrowing foreign governments for ideological, political, and economic reasons. In my opinion, the Iraq War was the most compelling case for his argument of long term failure.…

    • 784 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    There is not sufficient democracy in Iraq, the middle east really isn 't anymore evolved now than it was when we first sent troops in, and our relationship with Iraq is still in shambles. In conclusion, going to war with Iraq was done with the intentions to help make this increasingly oppressive state, free from the chains and whips that it is founded from. We as Americans wanted to help spread democracy, so that the Iraq could finally have civil liberties, and even a thriving economy. That goal sadly was not accomplished, because of the lack of cultural understanding, violence, and the sheer number of people that we were up against.…

    • 909 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Cause Of War Dbq Essay

    • 991 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Many americans, for example, were proud of the US intervention in the Gulf War(source G). They could easily forget the death toll of the war because they couldn't see it. This is a horrible state for our nation to be in. War is cruel and bloody and should be avoided at all costs. It has even come to the point where our nation is involved in conflicts that the public doesn't even care to know about.…

    • 991 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The invasion of Iraq in 2001 at the order of president Bush as a response to the attack of the twin towers in New York city was a display of the power of the American military; for within weeks the American army had overrun the Iraqi military and toppled Saddam Hussein who was accused of participating in the attacks on American soil and also accused of harboring weapons of mass destruction. This military display of power by America and its western allies despite insufficient evidence could be said to have created respect for America in the Middle Eastern countries. However, the argument can be made that this caused mistrust and disrespect for America. Without any evidence of weapons of mass destruction captured, the united states had become a bully. It had fulfilled the saying “ absolute power corrupts absolutely.…

    • 363 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The U.S thought that dropping off medicine and food after invading Afghanistan was a good way for Afghanistan citizens to trust us but I believe that it only made them hate the United States even more . Then there was also the patriot act that allowed government agencies to seize control over communication devices that i believe violate U.S citizens privacy . The response was unnecessary causing the death of soldiers and the anger of anti-war activist. According to http://thinkexist.com/quotes/cindy_sheehan cindy says “I was told my son was killed in the war on terror.…

    • 434 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    9/11 Social Changes

    • 1595 Words
    • 7 Pages

    The Iraq War of 2003, a war that could have been completed avoided, changed the face of the Middle East and the U.S.A After the 9/11 attacks, the idea of using military force to punish attackers seemed righteous. The thought of going to get the bad guys was the first item on the American agenda after…

    • 1595 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    During World War II the world was advancing quickly in the realms of science specifically, science that had to do with weapons, the largest of these advancements was the creation of atomic bomb, this is undeniably the deadliest weapon in human history, the splitting of the atom, the smallest substance of matter, can cause an unimaginable amount of destruction. Since the bombs creation the world has generally come to the consensus that it is unethical, and immoral for a country to use it against someone else. However, there always has to be an exception, and that exception is of course the United States when they dropped the bomb on Japan at the end of World War 2. President Truman justified his decision to drop the bomb by claiming that it…

    • 1417 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    World War II, along with many others, are looked at as total wars, basically meaning that the use of certain weapons or strategies were unrestricted. On account of this, the United States did not break any laws while using the bomb. Some may argue that if the purpose of the atomic weapons were for Japanese surrender, the United States should have waited longer to release more. On the other hand, effects of the bomb were immediate, “the vast majority of [victims dying instantly] or within a few days” (Faragher 5). With the high cost of Japanese lives and the mass destruction, it would take less than three days to surrender, unless they did not intend on surrendering after the bomb.…

    • 733 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The United States should have never gone into Iraq back in 2003 and we would not have all the issues we do have in the world today. The United States should have not gone into Iraq because then we would not have the rise of ISIS in the Middle East and the worldwide refugee crisis that is going on today. In 2003, the United States invaded Iraq because they believed they had weapons of mass destruction and Saddam was committing war crimes against his own people. The US ended up learning that Iraq did never have any types of weapons of mass destruction and they still fueled the civil war that caused the fall of Saddam, which caused for an extremely weak government.…

    • 849 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Benefits Of The Iraq War

    • 1603 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Iraq War: Have the benefits of the war outweighed the costs? The Iraq war is a touchy subject not a lot of people to talk about it, saying it has been eleven years and we are still over there fighting. Some people think it is necessary for us to be over there and some think otherwise, but the main contributing factor to that decision of us going over there and fighting is U.S. Congress and The President, and they decided for us to go off to war. Since 2003 we have been over there, and we are still over there many lives have been lost in this war, and many lives are still continuing to be lost.…

    • 1603 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Gulf War Vs Us-Iraq War

    • 1620 Words
    • 6 Pages

    Many people thought that it is not right to interfere with the politics of the other countries. Some thought that there is no other way. There was a large difference between the Gulf War and the US - Iraq war. In the first case, there was a common consent of the world leaders; everyone wanted to help Kuwait and condemned Iraq 's actions.…

    • 1620 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In my opinion, United States were right on dropping the bombs. Although hundreds of innocent Japanese lives were lost, millions of American and Japanese lives could have been killed. An article on www.militarythistorynow.com before the decision to drop the bombs, there was Operation Downfall. Operation Downfall was the mission where US soldier would storm onto Japanese homeland but never happened. The article states, “Had the invasion not been preempted by the dropping of the atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, almost all agree that the campaign would have stood as the bloodiest chapter of the Second World War, adding as much as an additional 10 million dead”.…

    • 798 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays