The Forgotten War
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The recent talk about the surge strategy in Afghanistan has got me wondering:
What happened to Iraq? Did people just forget? Over the last couple months I have not heard anything pertaining to Iraq in the news. No pressure on President Obama to pull the troops out. No reports of conditions over there. No reports of our soldiers dying?
I would hate to be fighting over there right now and feel like people in our country don’t even remember or care that I’m there.
This is the consequence of perpetual war. Sooner or later people just become complacent to the fact that the wars are happening. They don’t really see an impact of the war so they forget and move on.
It’s a shame.
Although I don’t agree with anything about the Iraq war, I’m taking the time to say that I still care about those soldiers over there, and wish we had a policy that would allow them all to be home with their families where they belong.
4,369 American military service members have died since the war began in 2003, according to the US Department of Defense. A total of 13,877 have suffered injuries serious enough to keep them from returning to duty.
So far, the total cost of the Iraq war is around 700 Billion
Less than 3,000 people died on 9/11.
Is anyone thinking to do a cost benefit analysis here?
…UDoTheDishes
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Footnote: I am aware that this war has been “Declared Over” by the president and that our forces are supposed to be under a phased withdraw over the next few years, but why is our media not even mentioning anything about this place. Update on positive conditions? Recent deaths? Stable solutions?
The only thing we hear about is the guy who threw a shoe a President Bush.
The shoe…lol. I saw Michael Moore do an interview about two months ago with someone while I was sitting in a hotel lobby and he said “we’re America, why are we not just getting the bad guys?” In my opinion, you don’t hear about Iraq because Iraq was Bush’s war, not Americas. I’m not saying I think the media is all to the left or anything like that, I just believe we politicize war. Bush politicized Iraq when he should have been really chasing bad guys in Afghanistan, like we were at first. Obama is pushing his agenda in Afghan because he campaigned on it. In 2020, when we have occupied and left both countries, there will be even more hate towards America because we came and didn’t have the nuts to do what it takes to have real success. And by nuts I am strictly talking about politicians not having the gumption to make tough decisions.
Maybe the media doesn’t report on Iraq because we aren’t “winning” there. Not that we’re winning in Afghanistan but as SeigleSeigle said, Afghanistan is now Obama’s war, Iraq was Bush’s. If we’re going to continue to be the Military version of Interpol when it comes to CT then it’s about time we take the gloves off.