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Friday, September 12, 2008

Seventh Anniversary

This past week marks the seventh anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Center. Are we any closer to winning the War on Terrorism? I really don't believe so. Let me explain.


The war in Iraq is costing us resources, in both money and manpower, that could be better used in defeating Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan. That was a war that we were already winning before the beginning of the Iraq war. So far, thousands of American servicemen have died and thousands more wounded occupying a country that had nothing with the 9/11 attacks. Saddam Hussein was a United Nations problem, not a United States problem. It is not our responsibility to be the world's policeman. Al-Qaeda is only there because there are now American soldiers there for them to kill. We have lost focus.


If the Iraqi government wants us to stay there, they can use the money they are making off their oil fields to pay us back for what we have spent on securing and trying to rebuild their country. The war in Iraq is costing us the war in Afghanistan. That is where the real war on terror is.
The Iraqi war is costing us roughly 12 billion dollars a month. We are spending money we don't have to rebuild their infrastructure while our own is falling apartment. Our education system has become a joke due to lack of funds, but we seem to have the money to educate the Iraqi people. Yet, because of their oil exports, they seem to have a surplus of money. I say make them use that money on their own people. We would be able to shift our focus to the real people who attacked us. That would be Al-Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden who, after all these years is still at large.

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Thursday, March 27, 2008

Five years of war in Iraq

It has been five years since the invasion and ongoing occupation of Iraq and contrary to what some people say, the average American is feeling the effects of this war. We, as a country, are billions of dollars in debt. We have seen the erosion of the American dollar on the world stage. This war has done nothing but cause us trouble on the world stage.
Roughly, 3 trillion dollars has been spent on this war. Meanwhile, our infrastructure is crumbling all around us. Our roads and bridges are not being repaired, or if they are, it is on borrowed money. Our educational is a mess. All wasted on a war against a country that had nothing to do with the attacks on 9/11. All so that President Bush and his friends can get even richer.
Yes, Al-Qaeda is now in Iraq. The only reason that they are there is that there are Americans to kill there. Meanwhile, Afghanistan, where the real threat to our country has been all along is falling back into the hands of the Taliban. The war in Iraq is costing the war in Afghanistan.

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