Iraq Veterans Against the War

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…

Tell or Not to Tell a War Story Phil Klay and Tim O’Brien are two very distinct war authors. Klay was a marine during the Iraq war, and O’Brien was an infantryman in the Vietnam War. Although the wars they were in are vastly different, they each have a story that focuses on the act of telling war stories. O’Brien’s story is “How to Tell a True War Story” from The Things They Carried, and Klay’s story is “War Stories” from Redeployment. However, the significance of telling war stories for each…

producer in the Middle East. Iraq accused Kuwait of breaking agreements that limit oil production within the region, which led to oil prices being brought down and Iraq losing billions of dollars. By invading Kuwait and burning the oil fields Saddam made the biggest mistake of his presidency by creating environmental disaster for both countries and the degradation of Iraq as a whole. President Bush goal in entering the war was to recover the stolen oil from the Iraq and ensure…

a more diverse military than today. During the Vietnam War, only 25% of service members were draftees (compared with 66% of WWII service members), but almost one in ten members of that generation were veterans. This leads to a group of civilians who is much more likely to interact with veterans on a day-to-day basis. There are two generations between those who have served in the Vietnam War and those who are joining the military during the War on Terrorism. The end of the draft might be…

Herbert Hoover once said, “Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die” (War Quotes). Erich Remarque, the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, wrote the novel to show parts of war that one can only understand with a similar struggle, including the cowardice of the older generation, the horrors of war, and the effects war has on the soldiers. War is hard to understand by those who have not experienced it. “Yet paradoxically, we are greater removed from the fighting now…

half and half. Some people are with Kaepernick and some are against. The people that are with Kaepernick believe he is doing the right by standing up for what he thinks, but others feel as if he is disgracing America and the soldiers that fought for freedom. When soldiers and veterans got asked their thoughts on Kaepernick’s movement most of them took Kaepernick’s side for his act of action. When Tom Baker, a navy veteran who served in Iraq was asked his thoughts on Kaepernick’s actions and if…

Having an African American become the President of the United States was unthinkable for many decades. For a while in American history, African Americans were slaves and it was the law, until the ratification of the thirteenth amendment. For centuries African Americans have fought to be treated equal as whites in all areas of living. They were not treated like people and were treated like property. They were not even aloud to vote for a while and were only counted as three-fifths of a person.…

consequently, an impending war. Of course, public chaos was inevitable, and propaganda was necessary to unite us as "Americans" and support the national cause. But how did a presidential administration justify entering a war without any concrete evidence that weapons of mass destruction existed or any precisely articulated objective? What made the…

Over the past fifteen years Americas finest warriors have been sent all over the world battling the war on terror. According to the President, the wars and battles are now over. Due to the President’s lack of combat experience, he fails to realise that the battles still continue. These battles are not in Afghanistan, Iraq, or any other country, the battles are now here in the United States. Veterans with and without PTSD are and will continue to relive those battles in their minds for the rest…

Amazingly, since 1776 The United States of America has been in a war about 93% of the time since its separation from Britain. That is astounding, 222 out of 239 years, this country has been involved in some kind of conflict.5 During an interview with a CIA veteran, who used the alias “anonymous.”6 He spoke out against the war in Iraq, which has controversy as to whether or not America should have been involved. Anonymous stated that he believes America…