War in Iraq: It’s Time to End This

It’s time to end this.

“Fuck Saddam, we’re taking him out.” —President George W. Bush, March 2002

“My answer is bring ‘em on.” —President George W. Bush, July 2, 2003

People lying in the middle of streets, under bloody white sheets. Dripping with blood they screamed murder as their children, friends and family falls down in the dirt and writhe in agony before the comforting blankets of death wraps around them. The sound of blood dripping and splattering on the pavement continues. Then an eerie silence fall over the street and the sound of blood still continues while the wounded life ebbs away…

Children and teens are being brought up living in violence. Not only are they being surrounded by the fighting among their peers, but also by the wars among our countries. Why are we taught that violence isn’t the answer, yet everything in society contradicts this? How will we ever gain complete peace if we keep producing more weapons? Why is it that our most powerful resources and government officials always turn to violence as the answer? To me it seems like war is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. Youth adults and army officials are all being killed to solve an issue of peace. If we are trying to make peace in Iraq then why are we doing it in violence? It’s not fair that every American and everyone in any country have to live in fear of war or violence, due to a couple peoples irresponsible decision.

In a time of war, we are wasting billions and billions of dollars on a war. In relation to the war in Iraq we America are spending over 400 billion dollars on the war while our State is cutting back on school budgets. But in general war is never good for the economy. War alone is very expensive, when you think about paying to destroy the country and the having to rebuild it afterward, it can be quite expansive. In addition, people in Iraq, both the Americans and the Iraq are dying from this war. It has gotten so expensive to bury the body, which most people just leave it there to decompose. War is a truly horrible thing.

My position on this issue is that I am against War, and anything related to war and the aftermath of it. Why? Thousands of young men and women are sent overseas to be killed or injured only to return crippled for life or in a coffin. By attacking Iraq, the United States has shown that they are no better than the villain Saddam Hussein. The assaults on Iraq were criminal and wicked acts while they were also unjust and unnecessary.

In an attempt to overthrow Hussein and end his cruel reign of terror, the US sent in an armed military force. Since the beginning of the war, there have been over 3334 military fatalities for the US alone. The US has caused as many, if not more, civilian deaths in Iraq than Hussein did, and in the process we have lost many of our soldiers, in addition to the twenty-six thousand wounded. As England and many other countries try to help us with our fruitless quest, they also lose their soldiers. Not only may soldiers be hurt physically, the images they see in Iraq haunt them forever mentally.