This year, most midterm election canidates are focusing on the issue of the Iraq war. Should we stay? Split up the country into thirds for less conflict? Take the troops out? Take only half of them out? Or even take all of the troops out, but only bring them halfway home? (Stranded in the atlantic…) With the president’s 32% approval rating, many people are leaning towards the side saying “out with the troops!” They believe that this “peace-keeping” mission is ineffective and bad for the american military and public. I agree with what they are saying.
It is my opinion that the president should remove the troops from the country. Inour involvement so far, we have ousted a dictator from power, yet not much else. Yet since this coup only claimed 50 American lives, what is the Army doing that can claim over 3000? Nothing, that’s what. For all our efforts thus far, we have little (if anything) to show for it. The country is still divided, and the democracy we should have made is constantly attacked by more and more insuregents. They use IED to undo all of our work, costing the American people more and more money, all thanks to those angry insurgents. Speaking of which, the more we staty and interefere with the country, the angrier they get, and the more they attack us. If we should stay in Iraq and it’s environs, then I would guess the number of deaths would increase expodentially. Oh wait, it already has.
There have been 3,078 coalition deaths, 2,839 Americans, two Australians, 120 Britons, 13 Bulgarians, six Danes, two Dutch, two Estonians, one Fijian, one Hungarian, 32 Italians, one Kazakh, one Latvian, 17 Poles, two Romanians, five Salvadoran, three Slovaks, 11 Spaniards, two Thai and 18 Ukrainians in the war in Iraq as of November 8, 2006, according to a CNN count. CNN
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1 Joe // Nov 22, 2006 at 10:38 am
I dig the creative title. I agree with you that the longer we stay, the angrier the Iraqis will get
2 juan // Nov 22, 2006 at 10:44 am
David I agree with you. Form an American point of view it is better to bring the troops back home. In Iraq the troops haven’t accomplished much. They only manged ti create more chaos within Iraq, therefore making America send even more troops. It the troops leave, America will stop loosing soldiers. I was especially surprised about the quote that you have. There are so many American deaths. I hope the president realizes that he is only sending more Americans to their death.