Blog 7

The war in Iraq has been going for over 6 years and it looks to be going longer then wanted. Why did former President Bush go to war? We like to think because Osama bin Laden attached our twin towers in New York City. However, I feel like the government might have already known that an attach to our nation was coming. Former President Bush used that attack as a way to put our troops in a foreign county to try to control. It is known that Iraq has the biggest oil industry and I feel that former President Bush was going after that. We have lost so many lives and we continue to lose many more. What have we accomplished, we have yet to catch Osama bin Laden and we have no idea as to where he might be. The only one who is suffering is our troops. They have to deal with the deployment to a country where we are not wanted. They have to deal with the fact that they are coming home without a limb. Or they are coming home with post traumatic stress and depression. And our government is now moving our troops to Afghanistan after 6 years in Iraq. How many years are our men and women going to be there? How many more lives is our government willing to lose? When will the families of those troops be able to hold their loved ones? In my opinion, I don’t feel that moving into Afghanistan is going to change the outcome. Osama bin Laden is still out there and he is in hiding. He will come out when it is time to attach us again. Having thousands of our men and women out there risking their lives is not the solution to finding Osama bin Laden.