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Iraq War Woes Article - Political Yard

Iraq War Woes

Posted Oct 19, 2006 - 11:57 pm by shvotz 898 views
This is an editorial I wrote for my college school paper. It was written on 10/17/06.In the first two weeks of October that we have lived in relative comfort watching the leaves change as we slowly approach shorter days and colder nights 58 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq. If continued at this pace, it would make October 2006 the bloodiest month for coalition troops since January of 2005.

As for the Iraqis themselves, 708 have died in those two weeks. Since April of 2005 the average death toll for Iraqis had been 27 per day. In October, it is 44. On Monday, October 16, Iraqis saw 91 of their own die in a single day.

However, Vice President Dick Cheney doesn't believe the hype. According to him, the overall situation in Iraq is going remarkably well.

Contrary to Mr. Cheney's wishes, support for the war in Iraq has gone down. A new CNN poll reports an all-time low for support of the war among Americans: only 34% support the war, and nearly two out of every three oppose it.

However, that number changes drastically when you enter the building located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C. You will find full support for American and Iraqi bloodshed in that building. We are told, after all, that we are fighting a new kind of war.

But was the War on Terror ever meant to be fought on Iraqi soil? My gut tells me no. No Iraqis were aboard those planes on September 11. Al Qaeda was virtually non-existent within Iraqi borders prior to March of 2003. Saddam Hussein was controlled; if he were to launch an attack, with the weapons he DID have, we would have known about it. The mushroom cloud we feared was never in Iraq; it was in Korea.

Iraq has become a new breeding ground for terrorism; and now, we are told that we are fighting them there so we don't have to here. Just ask Republican Senator Rick Santorum. His comparison of why we stay in Iraq to the Lord of the Rings films, although comical, sums up the White House's rhetoric quite well:

As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else, says Santorum. It's being drawn to Iraq and it's not being drawn to the U.S. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the United States.

No one does. But does fighting a war in Iraq a war that has created more terrorists than we had before the invasion keep terrorists from coming to America? No it doesn't. The two are not exclusive: there can be terrorists in Iraq as well as in America. Staying in Iraq will not prevent them from coming to our country.

If we intend to win this war on terror, we must be competent as well as consistent. We cannot go into the business of nation-building. Instead, we must go after the true enemies, the terrorists who attacked us, and the nations that truly do pose a threat. North Korea, as we have learned, was one of those nations. They now have nuclear bomb capabilities.

George W. Bush gambled and lost when selecting which country he should first hold accountable within the Axis of Evil. The price was our security. We cannot afford to gamble any longer. We must hold this man accountable, and make sure that in the future he and whoever holds his office will make the appropriate decisions regarding our security.

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