Iraq Veterans Against the War

Numerous veterans of the Vietnam War through Operation Enduring Freedom are faced with the disillusionment created by their enormous sacrifices and the slow removal of the U.S. military from the campaign. In turn, veterans and their families often lament the loss of friends, daughters, sons, lovers, spouses, parents, extended family members, sanity, and body parts in countries which are over-run after an American drawdown. This raises the question, do U.S. leaders have prior knowledge that a…

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…

United States launched a full-scale invasion on Iraq, only two years after the attack on 9/11. This lead to war almost immediately between Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan against both the United States and the United Kingdom. For eight years, the American government tried to subdue Iraq, ruled by Saddam Hussein at the time, because of an assumption that the Iraqi government was in possession of nuclear weapons and to stop Saddam Hussein’s aggression against his own people, thus attempting to spread…

The Iraq War, which is known as the Second Gulf War, is a military action led by the United States against the regime of Saddam Hussein, the authoritarian leader of Iraq. American president George W. Bush, who announced the commencement of the war in March 2003, explained that the goals were to free the Iraqi people and claimed that the Iraq government had weapons of mass destruction.(Beirut, 2011)Many factors went into the decision of United States leaders to engage in war with Iraq in 2003.…

For many veterans, war is not a heroic story or a means to achieve political ends instead it is a palpable reality in which they cannot escape. Kurt Vonnegut created his novel Slaughterhouse-Five not merely as a fiction narrative; it studies the profound and extensive influence on the historical and contemporary nature of human interaction situated in times of war: its moral, mental, and physical components and demands. Since the novel’s publication in 1969, Slaughterhouse-Five continued its…

national conflicts since it was first founded on July 4, 1776. These conflicts and wars have been happening from the 1800s all the way to present day. In all of these wars, millions and millions of soldiers have been sent overseas to fight for the United States along with billions of dollars used to pay for war materials and for help from other countries. One war, however, stands out the most. This war would be the Iraq War that started in 2003 after President George W. Bush claimed that they…

Soldiers and war veterans recognize when they return home that they must protect the idea of war in the civilian’s mind; therefore, they can never be honest and expose the truth of their experiences. The truths of war, then remain decorated causing difficulty for civilians to perceive the war in the same context as soldiers. This idea also inhibits civilians from learning the lessons war offers, permitting civilians the opportunity to revert back to children because they are naïve and…

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) in the Military Craigen, L. M., Cole, R., Paiva, I., & Levingston, K. (2014). Secondary traumatic stress and the role of the human service practitioner: Working effectively with veterans ' families. Journal of Human Services, 34(1), 38-51. This article looks at secondary traumatic stress (STS), one potential side effect of PTSD experienced by service members ' families. The authors first define and describe PTSD to include the stigma surrounding the mental…

right to go to war with Iraq to take down Saddam Hussein, but it came with unintended consequences. The long war with Iraq was a war which had many reasons. The United States did not want for Saddam Hussein to give these weapons of mass destruction to al-Qaeda or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Saddam Hussein was not directly supporting al-Qaeda or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, but he did have training camps and other support for…

the film, and the Iraq war itself. Some critics and viewers seem to believe that the film carries a political message surrounding an unjust war. This accusation is false, this blood-pumping movie was meant to serve one purpose, to present a portrayal of Chris’s life and the effect the grueling Iraq war had on him and his family. “American Sniper” isn’t the first artistic work that has been criticized by viewers on cultural and…