Iraq War

actions the United States. One of the biggest regretted wars was the Iraq War (2003-11) during the Bush Administration. Why was there a war in Iraq one might ask? The Bush Administration based its rationale for war principally on the assertion that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and that Saddam's government posed an immediate threat to the United States and its coalition allies. Of course some might mistake this war for the War in Afghanistan which began in 2001 after the…

speech, even threatened to wage war with Iraq alone at one point, showing his commitment to a war. If Bush was indeed signaling that the US planned to attack one of the “Axis” countries, then it is clear in looking back that Iraq was the intended target. The US had implemented an aggressive foreign policy towards Iraq since the first Gulf War in 1991, claiming that it had a right to “attack Baghdad at will.” America has been hailed as a “guardian” of global peace, and Iraq, which had in 1998…

Many speak of these two wars, Vietnam War and Afghan-Iraq War, to be the same war just fought in different times. They have a few differences but also many similarities when it comes to the forefront. To me the article “Taliban: US Role in Afghanistan Similar to Vietnam War” printed by Arabia 2000 presents appalling use of history and how these wars are connected. These two wars are connected in so many ways but the author only chooses one to talk about. We did withdraw our troops in…

withdrew from Iraq, signaling the end of an exhausting 8-year war. 36 years before that, the last U.S. troops abandoned Vietnam, marking the end of grueling 20-year war. Despite different beginnings, the causes for both wars’ failure have remarkable similarities. The U.S.’s overconfidence in their military superiority illustrated one important reason for the failures of the Iraq and Vietnam conflict. The American military had enormous advantage over its adversaries in Vietnam and Iraq in terms…

Iraq War We were in the middle of a dogfight, Miles a first sergeant and I were stuck on the second floor of a building taking heavy fire. The rest of the platoon had been hit with a mortar and we didn’t see any survivors besides Derek. I was an American journalist from ABC News who was covering the start of the war and had little experience being a war correspondent. They called out into the empty blast hole in which Derek walked over and could only find things left from the blast. We…

Ares, the Greek God of War, was born from his father Zeus and his mother Hera who was disliked by both of them. Ares was opposite of his sister Athena, the Goddess of Wisdom, because he was in love with the blood shed and violence while Athena fought her battles very tactically and with strategy. In the stories Ares was involved in he always faced humiliation and was on the losing side of the Trojans because Aphrodite, his lover and sister, favored that side as well. Even though Aphrodite, the…

Liberalism is “no longer enough to keep populations in check and keep economic growth rising, so a more extreme form has emerged” (Fisher). In this case, the Iraq War is one example. Iraq is a country that has been ‘shocked’ into submission so many times, which makes the companies behind it really unpopular and not being able to make a powerful change in Iraq. This shows “as proof that neoliberalism is being pushed to its limits—forces to reveal itself as a force that creates the disasters…

In the book War Heroes, Voices From Iraq by Allan Zullo, soldiers talk about their memories of fighting in Iraq, and they tell you how they felt like there sadness, and remorse during fighting in a terrible war. They also show you that war is something you don't joke about. This man named Staff Sergeant Daniel Bogart talks about IEDs (Improvised Explosive Device).In the beginning he had remembered seeing men, trucks, supplies, and etc. Now here is a sentence from the book “He had seen first hand…

High rates of PTSD in Iraq War veterans are being seen, as well as a number of other difficulties, including alcohol and drug use, and depression. This may not be too surprising to read as the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are in the news everyday, as are reports of their effect on the mental health of the men and women serving there. A majority of service members in Iraq and Afghanistan have encountered traumatic experiences and high rates of PTSD and other difficulties have been found.…

Following WWII, African and Asian nations were granted their independence, which brought on an era of political instability, and the Middle East was no exception. In this region, political, ethnic, and religious identity issues created civil wars, regional wars, and fluctuating relationships with the great powers, leading to hostile political relationships and political instability among Middle Eastern countries. Disagreements on how to govern newly-formed Middle Eastern countries led to…