Opposition to the Iraq War

On July 19th 1979 Saddam Hussein began his dictatorship in Iraq and from that day on history was changed. Iraq was in the middle of a religious war between the Sunni’s and the Shi’ites. Sunni’s and Shi’ites continue to have the disagreement about something that happened 1400 years ago after the death of prophet Muhammad. Shi’ites believe that in order to rule you have to be a descendent of Muhammad. Mean while the Sunnis believe otherwise. When Saddam took control of the country their economy…

In march of 2011, the civil war that is changing millions of Syrian Lives had begun. What initiated with several anti-government protests has now become into a brutal war for democracy. More than 250,000 have died, 1.2 million have fled the country, and more than 6.5 million people are trapped inside war bound Syria (‘’Syria: The story of the conflict’’) . Although many of the refugees have fled to neighboring countries like Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey; the UN has safely relocated many others…

Militant/terrorist organization that primarily operates in areas of Western Iraq and Syria. Many members are found throughout all countries and even in our very own backyard. They attempt to target many young people for recruiting through various mediums such as social media. Isis came to power after forcing themselves into western Iraq, they overtook many major cities and declared themselves a caliphate ("Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL)." n.p.) With their growing reach, power and…

reunification process can be just as stressful. The proposed documentaries will give a brief overview of military families and will follow the conflicts and struggle these families faced when their service members returned home from deployments to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These deployments varied in length depending on which branch of the military the service member is enlisted in. The average length of a deployment is between 9 and 15 months. This is a long time period for families…

There is a widespread belief that NASA is struggling to maintain funding to accomplish its mission, but there might be hope through the political process within Washington that NASA will gain what is needed to press forward (Leahy, B., 2006). Consequently, what would it take to continue our planetary exploration agenda? The values behind the space exploration program in the United States is undermined due to the funding required to maintain the program with the public sector. The cause of this…

ISIS Do we legitimately have to go to war? Do we even have a chance to win this war? The latest news on current events in our world would be that new terrorist group known as ISIL (ISIS) or as they call themselves “Islamic State”. They have become notorious in that last year or so. The United States believe we must go to war and “Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL, through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy” (Whitehouse). I believe we should not deploy our troops, or our…

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…

more combatants to the area (maybe better rather than them trying to come to U.S. to conduct their terror operations). Lets say Iraq does welcome us back with a large force, once ISIS is beaten, would Iraq agree to signing the "Forces of Agreement," an agreement where any U.S. forces left behind would be immune to Iraqi…

time for the first deployment, this is when everything started to change slowly. About nine months after he returned from the first deployment came another eight to ten month deployment. Then this same pattern went on until he did four convoy tours to Iraq and Kuwait with in a 5 year period. Things went from great to it all just faded away. Living with an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, I developed my own stereotype of veterans. Before, it all began he was a nice caring individual who loved…

“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. —Charles Swindoll” Entrepreneur https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/247213 Due to the war, Ishmael needs to react in a certain way for him to stay alive. During all of chapter eight, it is just Ishmael reacting to what the war has come down to for him. He is all by himself in a forest and has to find ways to survive. In order to stay alive, Ishmael needs to find food, water, and somewhere to sleep fast. So to conquer his hunger…