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Operation Iraqi Freedom (view source)
Revision as of 15:55, September 4, 2013
, 15:55, September 4, 2013→Summary of Justifications for the Iraq War Taken From This Entry
There are those who think that attacks upon America must actually happen in order to prove that these things exist or pose an imminent threat. The Iraq War was a preventative war and as such its merit relies on the mental ability of the public to perceive future threats and act in keeping with that threat and not ignore it - just as a person must swerve their car in the face of oncoming traffic in order to avoid an accident. As with this example, it does little good to discuss the merits of whether there would have been a crash or not after the fact since the evidence of past destruction which was avoided will never be obtainable.
There are those who think that attacks upon America must actually happen in order to prove that these things exist or pose an imminent threat. The Iraq War was a preventative war and as such its merit relies on the mental ability of the public to perceive future threats and act in keeping with that threat and not ignore it - just as a person must swerve their car in the face of oncoming traffic in order to avoid an accident. As with this example, it does little good to discuss the merits of whether there would have been a crash or not after the fact since the evidence of past destruction which was avoided will never be obtainable.
The threats could be real or invented; Destroying an arab country is the safest way to avoid any future damage.
The threats could be real or invented; Destroying an arab country is the safest way to avoid any future damage.
== 10 Years After the Invasion ==
America destroyed Iraq but the war crimes remain unacknowledged and unpunished. The evil unleashed on the people of Iraq has been painstakingly obscured behind a tapestry of lies. [http://www.alternet.org/world/10-years-after-invasion-america-destroyed-iraq-our-war-crimes-remain-unacknowledged-and] While Iraqis are still grieving over those who died during the decade-long war, ongoing violence in the region means the death-toll keeps rising. At least 134,000 Iraqi civilians are estimated to have died in the conflict and the overall number of casualties could be four times higher. ( the Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University)
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"Despite the failures that occurred in the time of the former regime, it is not comparable to the number of failures by the politicians and the current government ,” Um Mustaf, a school teacher at Tikrit Secondary School for Girls
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Her dissatisfaction with politicians is only natural, when you find out education system is one of the things worst damaged by the war in Iraq. Health and infrastructure are also on that list, according to the Costs of War Project, which goes on to say “the $212 billion reconstruction effort was largely a failure with most of that money spent on security or lost to waste and fraud.
Less than 40 per cent of Iraqi adults have a job and a quarter of families live below the World Bank’s poverty line. Statistics that haven’t improved much since the days of crushing UN sanctions imposed on Iraq in 1990. [http://rt.com/news/iraq-us-war-cost-482/]
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==See also==
==See also==