Iraq War is Unneccessary!!!!!

The Iraq War has cost us everything for a little of nothing. Some people may be profiting from this war, but the citizens of America are the ones that will have to pay for its faults. The war has cost us three trillion dollars, 4,000 lives, and five years of wasted time, and what have we to show for this war? High gas, more hatred towards America, and one of the largest, high-interested credit bills ever that we have to pay back to China. The Bush Administration mislead Americans in so many ways; he used the 9/11 attacks, fear of WMDS, and other false information to coerce us into supporting the war. Then once he had our support, Bush did not give us correct information on how long the war would last and the cost of it all. Now that it has been established that there are no WMDs, the connection between 9/11 and Iraq war is very twisted and misconstrued, why are we still there? Then we use the excuse of spreading democracy, that Saddam Hussein was a an evil dictator, and that we are freeing there country of the terrorist groups. How can we spread democracy when our country top leaders are lying to the people and our election votes don't even get us the president we want. To make matters worse the Iraq War has also became the last link in the cause of our faltering economy.


While we are saving the world, we have digged ourselves into a deep hole. We have a little over nine trillion dollars in debt. We owe about half of that to foreign countries and the other half to the federal reserve, private institutions and banks. The Iraq War is going to cost us around three trillion dollars and that's going to push us over the edge. Now as a result of our debt, we are in bad recession and future generations will have to figure out a way to pay back this debt owed. Right now we can see the affects of the debt in the average American life. The government has had to cutback on many programs that have had people seeking out refuge in this country for decades now. In February 2007, according to the article "“Bush budget puts pinch on domestic spending - Boosts warfund, hits healthcare," which is in the Boston Globe, Bush proposed a 2.9 trillion budget that wanted to make cutbacks on already money-strained benefit programs for the low-income American families. For example, he wanted to take 100 billion from Medicaid and Medicare and also limit the eligibility for Children's Health Insurance program. Others that face these kinds of budget cuts are pre-kindergarten schools, heating and air-conditioning for low-income families, and scholarships funds for college students. Also in this article, the Bush Administration believes that because of these cutbacks the economy would be better by the year 2012. The hasn't been any reported information on how they are backing this statement up. How can we take care of the people in Iraq when our citizens are left without health care, food, and an education?
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2007/02/06/bush_budget_puts_pinch_on_domestic_spending/?page=2

In 2005, two economists, noble-prized winning, Stiglitz and Linda Blimes came up with the real calculation of three trillion dollars being used by the end of this war. According to their research these two listed that one of these three trillion could have done the following: built 8 million housing units, paid 15 million public school teachers, paid health insurance for 530 million children for a year, and a paid 43 million college students scholarships. They also listed that three trillion could have fixed the social security problem for about half a century. Using the money in this way would have been more productive for the country then fighting a war on country that pose no real threat on us.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/28/iraq.afghanistan/print
There are some citizens and some experts alike, who are convinced that the spending on the Iraq War is a sacrifice worth making. People that are pro-war would say that the cuts on the low-income families’ programs are necessary in order to defend our country. Many would argue that Iraq posed a threat to America and our allies, having weapons of mass destruction and a ruthless dictator, who was associated with 9/11. In the summer of 2007, President Bush silenced the Democratic party in a debate about the Al Qaeda and Iraq connection using information from the National Intelligence. One of the facts stated by Bush was that “Al Qaeda in Iraq was founded by foreign terrorists linked to senior al Qaeda leadership. The founder of the Iraqi branch was Abu Musab Zarqawi, a Jordanian terrorist who had pledged his allegiance to bin Laden." This small connection to Al Qaeda would certainly make people feel as if the war is justified and worth the expenses to keep us safe.
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The 9/11 attacks opened up a window of opportunity for the Bush Administration to deceive and use the grieving of the America people to their advantage. We know that Bush and his advisers can not always be trusted to give full-proof, un-biased information regarding the Iraq war. According to the article “Lying like its 2003,” President Bush retracted his statements on there being weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He also went on to say that everybody was wrong on these accusations before the war began. But according to journalist Frank Rich of the New York Times, “Everybody, of course, was not wrong on W.M.D., starting with the United Nations weapons inspection team in Iraq.” The UN, after several inspections in Iraq, concluded that there were no threatening weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Their conclusions were made before the war began and were expressed to the Bush Administration. The Administration did not take heed to these inspections and manipulated the information to declare war. So how can America trust someone who has been known to rearrange researched information in order to fit his own agenda.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D04E1D81E30F932A15752C0A9619C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=2

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It is unnecessary for the war to continue any further. Our future economy and well-being depends on how we recover from this war and the sooner we pull out, the bigger the chance of our recovering. America has a history of upholding democracy, helping out other countries, and being the most powerful country. As time goes by our standards are rapidly changing and our country is going to be unrecognizable. The Iraq war is already one of the major causes of our country's defacement.