The Iraq War?

On March 20, 2003 the United States of America began an unprovoked attack on the country of Iraq.   The stated purpose of this attack was to prevent the usage of stored nuclear weapons by the Iraqi government.  No nuclear weapons were present in Iraq, nor were there any means of producing them, but this did not deter the United States from occupying Iraq for nearly nine years, removing the U S presence to some degree, but not totally, on December 18, 2011.  With the announced end of troop maintenance there, 17,000 U S yet citizens remain in some capacity.

During that period nearly 4,500 Americans died, but that paled in comparison to the Iraqis that suffered the same fate.  There is no accurate count, but estimates of Iraqi deaths vary from 100,000 to over a 1,000,000 of the 31,000,000 citizens of that country.  If the higher estimate is used, that means 1 of every 31 Iraqis died because of the United States government intervention in their affairs.

Although the United States may not agree with the governments of other countries, we are not the world police force and therefore we should stay out of their affairs.

Why is the United States yet in Afghanistan?  Our stated goal of intervention in that country was to force them to give the U S access to Osama bin Laden.  That man (found in Pakistan) has been dead now for several months, but we are still sending our soldiers to a possible death sentence in Afghanistan.  Why?  When did the United States become such a warmongering nation of people?  The fact is, it didn’t.  The average person on the street is not hell-bent on forcing Afghanistan to do anything.  It is the politicians who desire this.

I think it’s high time we brought our troops home for good.  Not at some point in the future.  Now!  I didn’t even start on the economic factors dealing with these two fiascos.  Billions of United States citizen’s hard earned tax dollars have been wasted along with the blood spilled in the sands of these desert wastelands.