The war in Iraq is a travesty. I don’t even think it can be classified as an actual “war”. It is more of an act of mindless and barbaric violence that holds no purpose. We have already proved victorious in the real war in Iraq, but now the Military is being attacked by citizens; not trained army personal. The longer we stay in Iraq and the Middle East, the higher the death toll will reach. The longer we stay in Iraq, the worse reputation we’re going to get from the rest of the world. The longer we stay in Iraq, the farther into debt we will become.

            America is not economically strengthened enough to withstand much more of this fighting. This campaign has cost the American tax-payers hundreds of billions of dollars. Our children’s children will still be paying off this debt for their entire life. If our economy remains in this crippled and battered stage, we will not pay off that debt and be able to start focusing on more important issues for decades. This war needs to come to an end.

            If we can get our troops home, we can stop financing the war and start putting money into homeland security and the national education system and the small, family owned companies that keep this country alive by employing more than 75% of the American population. We can start building more hospitals and schools and get more people off the streets if we can get our troops home. We can start focusing on getting more on fixing the economy if we can get our troops home.

            Not only does this fighting hurt the economy, it hurts the people, physically and emotionally. This war is destroying families in both the U.S. and the Middle East. Men and women, fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters are all being cheated out of their lives by the ignorant and foolish mistakes of the Bush Administration. The Bush Administration has made a huge impact on the people of these countries. They made America look like a blood thirsty animal, going into Iraq and killing citizens under the suspicion that they were housing weapons of mass destruction.  The Bush Administration will be remembered for the hundreds of thousands, even millions, of children that now live on the streets in the Middle East because their parents were killed in a car bombing that was meant to attack American soldiers. These bombings could have been avoided if we had never decided to meddle in what did not concern us.

            I am not against the war entirely. At the beginning, I did see a logical reason for us to go into the Middle East after 9/11. We were also there because they were attacking our oil refineries and our oil companies’ trucks and plants. It was a sensible idea to go in and defend our personnel working for American companies, but what we’re in now is unnecessary. From what I understand, we are there because troops keep getting killed by suicide bombers and car bombings, which probably wouldn’t occur if we weren’t there in the first place.

We can help get our troops home, but we cannot do it alone. We can help repair the economy, but we cannot do it alone. We can help bring peace in the Middle East, but we cannot do it alone. We need to stand together if we are to convince our government that we need to get the troops home and start preparing for a better future. A better future that consists of a thriving economy and a good national budget and a suitable foreign policy is what we all want and need. We the people represent America, and right now a lot of other countries don’t like the people that much. We can fix that by ending this senseless violence and instead of seeking weapons of mass destruction, we can seek peace with the world.