War in Iraq! By: James Brown IV
Fallen Soldiers and the Wounded in Battle: Since March 19 th, 2003 when the US first entered Iraq, 4,257 soldiers have died. The number for American wounded soldiers has skyrocketed to up over 31 thousand but estimates show that it could be as high as 100 thousand.
Iraqi Civilian Casualties Since the US invaded Iraq in 2003, there have been between thousand Iraqi Civilian deaths. Most of these civilian deaths are not caused by US military but by insurgents in Iraq and their car bombings. Although this outbreak of insurgency was caused by our involvement with the Iraqi Government.
The failings of Bush’s administration in Iraq are the cause of the strengthening of Iran’s strategic position. Iran is very capable of acquiring nuclear weapons that could cause great danger to many countries.
The Washington Post stated that the bill for the Iraq War will likely top $3 Million, and that’s a conservative estimate. The actual cost might be much larger than that!!
No Provisional Iraqi Government! In Iraq, the United States planned to remove Saddam Hussein from power and quickly organize a replacement regime, while holding the existing bureaucracy in place to administer the country. This plan became untenable when looters destroyed government ministries and their staffs scattered. As a consequence, several independent and uncoordinated streams of activity to create governance in Iraq got under way.
deBa’athification of the Iraqi Culture, government and economy. The deBa’athification of Iraq does not mean punishing all members of the Baath party. In a totalitarian state like Iraq, individuals had to join the ruling party in order to survive and to get a job. Instead, deBa’athification involves identifying the members of the inner circle and their connections to former secret police, Republican Guards and paramilitary troops. The most effective way to do this is to circulate a broad questionnaire among a portion of the Iraqi population. This is the exact method that was used by the U.S. Army in Germany after World War II to de-Nazify that country.
The disbanding of the Iraqi Military was not the best choice entering Iraq in Over 100,000 soldiers in the Iraqi Military were most likely just ordinary people who got forced into the army, therefore there was no good reason to disbanding the entire army. We ended up just recruiting from the same group of people afterwards, while the insurgents were becoming stronger and stronger everyday.
Troop Withdrawal Date!!!! President Obama announced that the troops would be withdrawn by the end of August of He also said that 35,000 to 50,000 troops will stay up until 2011 to advise Iraqi forces, target terrors and protect US interests.
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