Letter: Why we attacked IraqCharles Wheeler
he attacked the US Embassy and Trump proved he was not Jimmy Carter or Barak Obama. So Soleimani paid the price, but it was too little too late if you were a Syrian, because when America had a chance to step in
What does that Green Beret mission mean? Green Berets are elite Army soldiers who are highly skilled and trained to operate on their own with few resources in remote areas. One of their primary missions is to train foreign militaries in fighting skills; that’s a worldwide mission. Iraq and...
He also reminded that "during the last months of the Iran-Iraq conflict, United States repeatedly attacked Iran's ships, destroying several motor boats and damaging a military frigate". "They [US] deliberately took that step. They wanted to demonstrate to Iran that they would shoot ...
because if you go back to the early 90s, when NATO began to talk about expanding and going out of area, the US wanted to go invade Iraq in the early 90s, this, at this point, there was a huge resistance among the Europeans, but then, and also for years, ...
attacked Iraq: “It’s frightening to stand up there. Nobody wanted to get into an argument with the president at this very serious time.” The Washington Post blocked or buried pre-war articles exposing the holes in the Bush team’s assertions on Iraq. Post Pentagon correspondent Thomas ...
"We did it in Iraq, where we killed a quarter of a million civilians in a failed attempt to topple Saddam Hussein, and where we have killed a million since then with our sanctions. About half of these innocent victims have been children under the age of five." ...
(Kant, 1795, pp. 12–13). Yet the events of early 2003 are pointing in another direction: a number of democracies argued for war and attacked Iraq while the majority of their citizens had spoken out against military action (Gallup, 2003). Such blatant discrepancy between government and ...
Why was the Patriot Act controversial? Why was the Iraq War controversial? Why was the Fugitive Slave Act controversial? Why were the Pentagon Papers so controversial? Why was Averroes so controversial? Why was the Fugitive Slave Clause controversial?
The simplest explanation of the US goal in Afghanistan is to keep it from again becoming a hotbed for terror groups like al Qaeda. When the US left Iraq, for instance, the power vaccum helped lead to the rise of ISIS there. Five presidents, five strategies: The US' wars in Afghanistan ...