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Operation Iraqi Freedom
Summary: Essay provides a discussion of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Remember the old joke about the U.S. giving an aircraft carrier to a third world country that is now beating it into millions of spearheads? Something like that is going on now in Iraq - only it's no joke. To date nearly 700 American soldiers have lost their lives, over 3000 have been wounded, and the war has cost us well over 110-billion dollars and still rising.
Because we live in a country that is governed by the rule of law, as a nation, we were ill prepared to deal with such a primitive society. Our efforts to engage the Iraqi's in a postwar healing process have failed. We were ill prepared to deal with a society that has been dominated by fear; a society that has been tormented and intimidated under the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein for nearly two decades. The after effects of living in such...
This section contains 637 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) |
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