War and Bush

War and Bush

War has taken place all over the world. It is brutal at times even necessary, and the United States of America has seen its own share of wars. Since September 11, 2001, the President of the United States has launched a war on terrorism, and currently we are still at war. The War on Terrorism has been one of the most important battles our country has ever had and overall it has been the best for the U.S. as well as Iraq. The United States does have its motives for the war, and those purposes are what make this country as safe as it is today.

Before September 11, 2001 many individuals assumed they were living in a safe country. The news showed bombings and war in different countries, but people in the U.S. were too ignorant to know such things can occur in the land of the free. When the brutal 9/11 attack occurred President George W. Bush made the proper decision of fighting back by launching a war on terrorism. This was a logical decision because most of the country felt vulnerable after the attack. Furthermore if our country did not fight back, other countries would take it into consideration that we are weak and they can take advantage of us. About 90% of polls conducted by various news stations before and the beginning of war stated the people overall supported it. (http://www.pollingreport.com/iraq.htm)

People argue now that we have been at war for a while some people are changing their minds, but not as many as the media makes it seem out to be. All the media has done for the war is damage it. The media’s main desire is to make ton of money and in doing so they will try to make the Iraq war seem as pointless as Vietnam. Polls that are conducted may be rigged. One fact that can easily display that is that conservative news sources will have more people supporting the war than media that is non-conservative; this is too close to be a coincidence (www.chronwatch.com). Furthermore, many times on the news a group of kids from school will be interviewed and say how terrible of a job Bush is doing with the war. It does not make sense to interview these kids who probably do not even know why there is a war, much less looked up information from a reliable source and know what they are talking about. People who pose as experts never are experts, the only people who can give a clear aspect of the war are someone who has fought in the war. One soldier says “nobody speaks about any of the positive things the troops are doing, like rebuilding houses and helping with other manual labor, you only hear about the ambushes and killings.” (http://boards.youthnoise.com). The perspectives of people in war and people viewing the war are very different and many people fail to realize the news can be a very one-sided source. California itself is very liberal and that can affect the way the news is run, but the fact is California is not the only location in the U.S. The same news sources that criticized the war are also the same individuals who show negativity on television every single day about such things as the Peterson trial, kidnappings, homicides, car accident fatalities. They show such atrocities of people getting beheaded to get people talking and the more they talk the more people that will watch the news. In the black eyes of the media the more death in war and any other part of the world the better. What the news fails to carry out is to show other sides of their argument.

The war in Iraq has drawn a very rough line that the U.S. will not stand for terrorism and will fight to destroy these threats of the world. Destroying terrorism will make many individuals feel safer than they have felt since 9/11. Many people say Saddam was never a threat and the U.S. should have never stuck their nose in Iraq, but those people are ignorant because Saddam was always a big threat. The leadership under Saddam Hussein used weapons of mass destruction and hurt Iraq immensely, causing people to lose their lives. A case displaying this brutality towards his own people occurred in 1988 during Desert Storm when Saddam gassed and killed five-thousand Kurds who were fighting on Saddam’s side. Saddam has been accused before of mistreating the Kurds, but killing them is unjustifiable. Because of Desert storm the United Nations knew that Iraq had chemical weapons and ordered Saddam to dispose of them. The U.N. had permission to inspect Iraq and over a thirteen year span they did, but Saddam would not let the U.N. search in certain areas. This led them to believe that Iraq still had weapons of mass destruction. The