The United States is still involved in a war. This has become a detail that many in America have inadvertently forgotten

Now don’t get me wrong, the fact that our troops are still fighting 5,000 miles away is remembered by some, but only by families that it directly affects.

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The average American, the American that does not have a father, mother, uncle, cousin or friends fighting for our freedom is the one that has forgotten.

The Iraq war has been going on for six and a half years, and as the years have progressed the media coverage, funding, and most importantly the support has greatly diminished.

In wars past, American citizens demonstrated their outrage through protest. People picketing their way through the streets of Washington was the best way to get the governments attention.

But recently, Americans have abandoned the want to protest, and because of this the government, and the government alone continues to decide what is best for this country.

If the United States ever wants to withdraw any of its troops from Iraq, the American people need to begin sticking up for what they believe in.

The Iraqis are not better off now that we have invaded their country, a recent poll says that 67 percent of Iraqis feel less secure because of the occupation of American troops.

We need to ask ourselves, who is this war really helping? Our late president answered this question, by justifying the Iraq incursion as a resolve to “every threat…that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America” according to a White House press announcement.

When the war started, this sudden terror was the threat of weapons of mass destruction, but we all know how that conspiracy blew up in the governments face.

This war should have never started, but history cannot be rewritten, so to correct this mistake that is costing the United States an estimated $100 billion a year, the American people need to protest.

Send a letter to your representative, start a petition, go march in Washington, just do something to show the government that what they are allowing to happen, is stupid.

The United States government is designed for the people, if they can not guarantee that what they are doing is in the best interest of its citizens, and then the United States government does not need to be governing at all. Remember, as Americans we have the right to fight for what we believe in.