I agree with President Obama’s decision by bringing home approximately 40,000 troops from Iraq to come home in early 2011; in this (L.A. Times) article. It’s about time we pull our troops out of Iraq; they should’ve never been there in Iraq. We didn’t achieve our mission in Iraq in finding weapons of mass destruction(aka WMD's). We failed finding WMD's so why were we still there? How many casualties has there been? How many wounded soldiers have there been? How many WMD’s have we found? Was it even worth it? Now all of these soldiers aren't going to see their families anymore.
Well according to globalsecurity website there are about 4,000 casualties and 30,000 wounded soldiers. For what purpose; according to MSNBC there weren’t any WMD’s found and it was published in 2003 and the article has been updated. There obviously were not any weapons of mass destruction. So basically the mission in Iraq was complete failure and catastrophe. All of those lives that were lost in Iraq were for nothing; because they didn't find what they were looking for and had a lot of casualties to pay for their failure.
In conclusion I’m supportive of Barack Obama’s choice of bringing our troops home 40,000 troops will come home to be with their families and celebrate the holidays with their families. Which means 40,000 troops will not be casualties of Iraq. This Iraq fiasco should’ve ended a long time ago. I mean we were there for nine years and we were searching WMD's and found nothing.
I think that this article speaks the truth, and hits some key issues. I understand what he was saying and completely agree. When something as big as a war is at a go, we need to have a goal. If that goal is not reached, we need to make a new goal or stop! The way he covers this side of the war by taking a negative stance against staying in Iraq is productive to its readers. In general though everything thing he says is easy to relate to and understand. This makes reading this article effective.
ReplyDeleteI wanted to hear a little more about the weapons they were searching for though. I am an uneducated reader to the Iraq War and know little about it. It would have been nice to get an understanding of what exactly they were looking for.