So one has to ask was it worth it? Almost near years since we entered Iraq we are leaving with little results and a bill that doubles our debt and could continue to hold down our economy. There were over 4,400 lives lost, and that is just on the Americans side. We have not even began to scratch the surface of the effects on the native Iraqis and how many thousands of civilians have been killed and the millions that have been displaced by our war efforts. To go along with the 4,400 Americans that wont be coming home to their families, there were over 32,000 Americans wounded in this war.
Mr. Cogan also states that in 2008 an estimated 30 percent of soldiers took their own lives while on deployment and that another 35 percent committed suicide after returning home. Mr. Cogan will also go on to say that the Veterans Affairs (VA) has only treated around 400,000 of the 1.7 million men and women who have served and that the numbers might be far worse than the VA actually knows about.
Putting aside all my appreciation, today I am here to put in my point of view on whether Australia should withdraw from Afghanistan. It all started back in 2001, when the twin tower attack in America agitated the world. On October 2007, the United States and the Great Britain launched air assaults against Taliban followed by ground invasion. The war was led to degrade and destroy Al Qaeda organization. This initiated Afghanistan’s third major war in the last 32 years.
He plans to send an additional 30,000 troops. In July 2011, it is expected the troops will begin to pull out of Afghanistan. Even though we have a date to start withdrawal, Obama has made it known that this date is only conditional, depending on the how things look on the ground. In conclusion, we went to war because of the devastating and deadly terrorist attacks to our nation on September 11, 2001. We sent troops to Afghanistan to bring down Osama bin Laden and the other al-Qaeda members, as well as helping the nation build a democratic leadership.
The top US Democrat in the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Representative Eliot Engel, is set to introduce legislation to train, arm, and support the Syrian opposition Monday — which would constitute a major escalation in US involvement in the civil war. The brutal two-year conflict has taken the lives of approximately 70,000 Syrians and displaced over 1 million refugees, according to UN estimates. A different report this week claimed that the US had trained between 200 and 300 Syrian rebels at a camp in Jordan. The US declined to comment on the ostensible training. The US had previously refused to provide the rebels with arms.
There was talk that there were not going to be enough troops to fight this war. They were running out of supplies faster than they could be replenished. “January of 2005, it was confirmed that there were no weapons of mass destruction found“ (Rowen, Iraq Timeline). In February, a suicide bomber killed about 115 people by blowing up his car. Later on in November of the same year, Bush states that “pulling troops before they have complete their purpose would not be a plan for success“( Rowen, Iraq Timeline).
Bush was informed and in turn sat there for several minutes. Emergency technicians said there could be as many as 20,000 people working that day. Is this not considered a mass murder? Why did the government fly 143 Saudi’s out of this country, 24 of them being a member of the Bin Laden family (Moore, 2004). The government knew that Al Qaeda was hiding Bin Laden, yet it still took those two months to get troops into Afghanistan and still they only sent 14,000.
The United States led a coalition of over 30 different Nations into a battle with Iraq in order to liberate Kuwait from the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. The conflict between Iraq and Kuwait began because Iraq was accusing Kuwait of drilling oil across the Iraqi border without permission. The United Nations made the decision to get allied forces together and begin the Gulf War (VFW Post 6298. n.d.). The war in the Persian Gulf had less than 100 hours of actual land and air actions before Kuwait received their oil rights back and Iraq was defeated. Many military veterans who served in the Gulf War have been said to have obtained unexplainable health problems which are now known as Gulf War Syndrome.
The peace talks were held between American officials and North Vietnamese officials. Over the length of the war, three million American soldiers served in the Vietnam War(www.vietnamewarfacts.net). Not too many people were sure of the reason why the U.S. got involved in the War and most argued the U.S. should have stayed out of it. As a result of the war continuing on, many Baby Boomers protested to end the
Look at it from this point, before the invasion of the coalition. There was electricity, jobs, clean water, food and are now on the brink of civil war between Sunni and Shiat Muslims. There does not go a day in Iraq with out civilian casualties and American troops dying. On average 6.2 Americans die a day. Since the collapse of SH regime more Americans have died after the war .77% of Iraqis would rather the coalition never come because before they came to the “rescue” there was stability in the region.