Opposition to the Iraq 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…

nonchalance might not be appropriate, but such reservations are an utter insult in light of what is being discussed. Take for instance the numerous anecdotes on the subject of people dying. A terminal issue here and one that predicates the eventual Iraq war was the endless bombing campaign and occupation of the Middle East. Osama Bin Laden, in his fatwah (a legal opinion or ruling issued by an Islamic scholar), described those exact actions and used them to motivate terror. Beyond the huge…

invasion of Iraq and end Saddam Hussein’s regime. Saturday by Ian McEwan is based in the time period after the 9/11 attacks and midst the talks of war against Iraq. The narrative is constructed around a mid-age neurosurgeon, Henry Perowne, who is based in London. His narration is about one particular day in his life, a Saturday. The same day on which United Kingdom saw its largest protest march. February 15 2003, marks the day when millions came out on the streets of London to express opposition…

invested in portraying the Middle East as important in itself, rather than important because of the resources, chiefly oil, it supplies to the rest of the world…The expanding U.S. military intervention in the Middle East, the rising American casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan, the terrorist acts against U.S. targets, the continuing violence in the Holy Land, and the speculations about new U.S. military campaigns against Iran and Syria are all demonstrating the costs of American policies in the…

Since the beginning of the war in Syria in March 2011, over 400,000 men, women, and children have lost their lives, and millions more have been displaced (Straightforward Answers to Basic Questions About Syria’s War). For many years, Syrians have been begging for a turn from authoritarianism to democracy. In 2011, a group of teenage boys became the spark of a revolution. On February 15, 2011, four boys from the biggest families of Daraa spray painted “Your turn doctor” on their school wall,…

Organizational Structure The war in Iraq has definitely been a major topic of discussion among the America people for a very long time. It is important to understand that this issue had a lot of people divided when it came to answering the question of whether or not America should invade Iraq. Although the war has ended, when discussed today, there is still a level of division after the fact. When dealing with matters that affect a wide range of people and their well-being, especially in…

Japan dropped bombs on the United States’ naval base at Pearl Harbor, and the United States joined the war. In 1943, American scientists worked to develop the atomic bomb in hopes of ending the war. When Truman became President, he had to make the world changing decision of whether or not to drop the atom bomb on Japan. Although Truman’s decision killed many Japanese civilians, continuing the war would have resulted in more American deaths and economic distress; therefore, Truman’s decision to…

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…

Iraqi forces from Kuwait; the restoration of Kuwait’s legitimate government; restoration of the security and stability of the Gulf region, and finally the protection of the lives of American citizens abroad.” This document came out eighteen days after Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait. National Security Directive 45 was the forerunner to the January 15, 1991 National Security Directive 54, which spelled out to the stake-holding agencies the strategic objectives in a manner in which they could…

to be all over the news. With each air attack and taped execution, one question keeps popping up into the minds of our citizens, who is ISIS? ISIS is an acronym which stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, a terrorist group that first came into view around 2003 after the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The current leader of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, plans to take control of all Muslims worldwide, and will kill any “infidels” who stand in their way. This grave act of abuse towards anyone who…