EssayClub.com - Free College Essays and Term Papers

Iraq War

War with Iraq
Bush Administration’s Greatest Mistake

On March 20th next year, US will celebrate its five-year anniversary of invading Iraq! But the question that bothers me most is:   Can invading Iraq be the greatest mistake that the Bush Administration has made? We are endangering American lives in a nation, who never was a literal threat to us.
Iraq for the past several years has violated numerous U.N. resolutions calling for the destruction of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and allowance of weapons inspectors to monitor the disposal of such weapons. Ever since the end of the Gulf War, Iraq has disregarded these policies by removing weapons inspectors, which in turn has allowed Iraq to further research weapons of mass destruction. In 1998 the U.S. launched Operation Desert Fox with the objective of allowing weapons inspectors back into the country. After the operation succeeded and inspectors were allowed back in, all seemed well and little attention was paid to Iraq. Since political powers did not deem it worthy to check on Iraq and put their main focus on Wall Street, Iraq renewed their weapons program and everyone just ignored it.
After the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001, the focus has shifted back on Iraq. Iraq has been known to help finance terrorist groups, which have anti-American feelings. With Iraq’s weapons program going unchecked for several years, there was no telling what they may have in their arsenal. The U.S. intended to stop Iraq from developing any more weapons of mass destruction before they are used against the world. Iraq can easily give these weapons to a terrorist group who will then try and use those weapons against the U.S. Stopping Iraq’s research of weapons of mass destruction decreases the chance that such weapons fall into the hands of a terrorist organization.
Critics had argued that a war with Iraq would prove too costly for the expected results.   Some critics said Iraq poses no real threat...