Reason For War

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Many soldiers went to war and lost their lives for this country, and they have never been told the exact reason for this war; they should be rightfully informed by the government the actual reason for being sent to another country to risk their lives. It would be the right thing to do because someone is not going to give their life and find out that it is meaningless. The difficult part is trying to get the government to reveal their true intentions to the public. The government is smart, so they hide the facts from its citizens and make them believe that what they are doing is the best choice to make. This is their way of manipulating the country and doing whatever they want whilst having the American people on their side when they make decisions.
War should not be the solution unless there is no other possible way of resolving conflict or differences. It is safe to assume that when Congress declared war on Iraq, they were not using proper reasoning because they did not think about what they were risking and how much of a cost it would be overall. Since the beginning of time, people have been fighting each other and going to war, and the primary reason usually is greed, money, and power. Still to this day, these are reasons for the start
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This tragic is 9/11, which was when the World Trade Center towers were attacked by two airplanes. Shortly after both crashes, the towers collapsed, causing horrifying terror within our people. This event can be said to be a cause of the war because the U.S. government wanted to eliminate a group referred to as Al-Qaeda, which is said to be responsible for hijacking the planes and crashing them into the towers. After this happened, everyone in the country looked at terrorism in a very serious manner because they saw what happened and were afraid of anything like that happening

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