Iraq Veterans Against the War

The Cold War and the War on Terror, two American wars fought in the name of Democracy. These two wars seem to be different, the United States entered them for different reasons and our enemies in these wars were completely different. Yet underlying this there are numerous similarities in these wars. These similarities can analyzed through events and documents from both wars. One of these examples is the massacre at My Lai, Vietnam, which happened on March 16, 1968. Soldiers entered this area…

attacks on 9/11, policymakers were presented with, what was considered at the time to be, “solid intelligence” about Iraq and their ability to obtain nuclear weapons. History has now proven the intelligence was factually incorrect and the invasion of Iraq was an intelligence failure of epic proportions.…

The Hurt Locker is a movie that follows an elite explosive ordinance disposal team (EOD) in Iraq. Sergeant James arrives as the new team leader of the EOD after Sergeant Thompson was killed on a mission by an IED. The other members of the team include Sergeant Sanborn and Specialist Eldridge. There are several traumatic events throughout their time in Iraq. To begin, Sergeant James becomes acquainted with an Iraqi child throughout the film. On one mission the team needed to search a building…

George W. Bush’s 2004 presidential campaign ad “Tested” employed ethos with his message “Steady Leadership in Times of Change” implying that he was stable and trustworthy during the disastrous events that took place under his administration ,such as September 11th an event that would go on to change how voters viewed foreign and domestic affairs for years to come; meanwhile, John Kerry’s campaign ad “Optimists” would have successfully captured the vote of American voters because of his pathos…

The United States of America has been at war since 2001. The two campaigns are known as Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraq Freedom. Since the beginning, there has been over 1.5 million troops deployed to the region (Savitsky, Illingsworth, & Dulaney, 2009). It does not matter what the job is, the chances that a soldier will experience a form of trauma is almost guaranteed. It was no different for Lieutenant Commander Heidi Kraft. In her book, Rule Number Two: Lessons I Learned in…

War can be defined as a conflict between different nations or states but the truth behind it all is what is it really doing to our nation that many of us fail to see? World war two was a time of devastation and global economic destruction that caused a domino effect and ruined many investors within the U.S. On October 29, 1929 the New York stock market crashed and was predicted to set off a worldwide depression and have profound effects on the economic, social, and political structure of every…

was elected the U.S had a notoriously bad president, George W. Bush. President Bush left Obama with a ton of problems. High unemployment rate, low amount of jobs, and a completely destroyed of the American middle-class. According to aattp(Americans against the tea party).org 's article, The Top 20 Ways President George W. Bush Destroyed America,”Median household incomes declined by 4.2%, social economic inequality reached epidemic proportions, and the middle-class took on more debt than at any…

Multiple countries such as Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, and Jordan are currently housing Syrian refugees. Other countries such as the United States or members of the United Nations are planning to get involved due to the impact of the civil war in Syria. About 3 million citizens in Syria have fled and 200,000 have died. Syria has a refugee camps inside the county which holds 6.5 million people who lost their family, homes, and jobs due to the war. The war continues with rumors of chemicals agents…

“All wars have unintended consequences. No matter how cautious generals and political leaders are, war sets in motion waves of change that can alter the currents of history” (Tirman 45). The United States involved itself in an ongoing conflict that has spanned from Crusades to the colonization by the European powers. When the United States pulled out of Iraq in December 2011, a splinter group of Al qaeda headed by Abu Musab al Zarqawi attacked major Shia communities to ignite a sectarian war.…

time of the war. While reading Homer’s Illiad this epic piece connected with life issue in many ways, and was a piece that was very diverse. Of course, with war comes death, but let not death be in vain. In today’s world soldiers have risk their lives’ and many have died due to the battle of the war. The war that changed this nation’s view is the war in Iraq, which was so popular it caused great debate over the world. It was a big war that claimed countless life’s just as the Trojan War did.…