When the TROOPS! When the Troops Come Marching HOME!

               
              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.

  The author’s audience in this article(Huffington Post) is adults but mainly parents who have children and are going to school.   Mark Kennedy Shriver(the author) is a U.S. Democratic Party politician who served as a member of Maryland House of Delegates for two terms from 1995 to 2003.  Mr. Striver wants to draft a bill that would modernize the no child left behind in rural areas.  Claims it will increase economic growth, keep kids off the streets and them becoming criminals and increase testing standards.

                I actually agree with his policy; there isn’t a policy established so they might as well do something and this sounds like a good investment.   Mr. Striver’s logic sounds spot on why just educate the urban and neglect the rural; when the rural people could be just as beneficial to our economy.  If not more beneficial.   He gives statistics saying, “That the Literacy Instruction and Achievement would incentivize on states and improve on early childhood education the key to elementary school success and, reduced crime and as much as $2trillion dollars.”  He says Striver says experts have tested this but he does not list any and doesn’t explain their credibility he just calls them “experts.”

                Overall I would say Mr. Striver has merit in his case and I would agree that we should balance the scales and invest in educating the rural economy.  But he doesn’t give sufficient evidence into why this would be great plan.  Mr. Striver makes a good argument and we should invest in the rural economy.