After being entrenched in Iraq for the for the last eight years, it may finally be drawing to a close this year. This conflict was born from the desire to confront a dictator we once had allied with in his fight against Iran.
Picking the wrong side has always been a sore spot in our foreign relations. My question is why do we insist on taking sides when we are not the world police. Isn't that the duty of the UN?
Why should we put our nation in danger? We did that and the end result was the 911 attack on our soil that cost the lives of 3000 citizens, as well as the ensuing war that cost us 5,554 service men and women and left thousands wounded ..... not to mention the trillions in debt our nation has endured because of it.
In Iraq alone 31,882 were seriously injured and 4,482 died. This doesn't include the loss of Iraqi and Afghan civilians and the damage to those countries' infrastructures which we poured money into to repair. This is money that the tax payers will never recover, but that padded the bank accounts of the construction and security firms that were hired.
This is a high cost in life alone for an unnecessary war in Iraq ....... one based on faulty intelligence ...... or was it staged intelligence?
We have become a nation of aggression, based on the military complex and the nation building for profit. The military businesses revels in the opportunity to establish a foothold in the oil rich middle east where, before this, they had no chance of influencing and taking control of the region. Now, with the backing and support of the military, they have taken power.
For those families devastated by this war ..... those who have lost fathers and mothers and children ....... the cost is even much greater than the money this nation has lost to the corporate instigators of an unjust war.
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