Likewise, according to Anderson (2004), "War, if good for anything, is great for business. It means more than just the production of weapons and equipment -- sometimes faulty and overpriced. It promises billions in government revenues for increasingly privatized military training, recruiting, laundry and even KP services" (p. 155). These privatized military services all provided courtesy of the friendly folks at Kellogg, Brown & Root - and all at a hefty profit, of course. To be fair, though, the vice president is not the only one involved in this unholy conspiracy to bilk the American taxpayer while bleeding the armed forces dry. In this regard, Achcar (2004) emphasizes that the president is also implicated by virtue of his close ties with the oil and gas industry and the enormous political contributions they have provided to support his administration's prosecution of the war in Iraq. "Besides his own personal and family ties to the industry, Bush appointed people with equally close or closer ties to it to key posts in his administration, including Vice President Dick Cheney (Halliburton) and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice (Chevron)" (Achcar, 2004, p. 23). While the pundits continue to debate the fine points of "withdrawal strategies" (something that was clearly not taken into account before the war was launched), thousands of Americans have died and countless Iraqi citizens have been slaughtered. According to Schor (2004), "The brutal destruction of Falluja in order to 'save' it and a recently published report that hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children are suffering from acute malnutrition -- an affliction that has doubled since the U.S. invasion -- are just two of the many compelling reasons that stopping the Bush Administration's war in Iraq is a moral imperative" (p. 11). This moral imperative is reinforced as well by the fact that the United States has implemented an all-but-in-name draft once again by virtue of extended tours of service for those already in-country, and the troops in Iraq can be reasonably expected to experience the same types of horrific post-traumatic experiences as their Vietnam veteran counterparts in the future, perhaps even more so (Cobe, 2004). This author emphasizes, as well, that, "When you ask a...
Alas, there have been no weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq, just billions of dollars in profits for Bush-Cheney et al. who were calling for a preemptive war in Iraq long before September 11, 2001 provided the right fuel for their fire (Smith, 2005).
Iraq's New Government And Social Outcome Of War On April 29, 2005, officials from Iraq's six neighbors, Jordan, Syria, Kuwait, Iran, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and regional Egypt, met in Istanbul to welcome the formation of a Iraq's new government and give the emerging democratic process a boost despite regional fears of instability in the country. After nearly three months of haggling over key government posts, Iraq's National Assembly finally approved the country's
attacks of September 11, 2001, we, as Americans learned that our country is not as invincible as we thought it to be. The United States can and has been hurt within this past year. Therefore, President George W. Bush's plan to attack Iraq seems to be justifiable so that America has a lesser change of getting bombed again. And, subsequently, being weakened further. By attacking Iraq, Bush's intends to
Military Draft In arguing against reinstating the military draft in the United States, several things come immediately to mind. First among those, for anyone who has learned anything at all about the Vietnam War, is that the draft can be devastating to society, causing upheaval at home as well as the return of bright, strong young men in body bags. David Halberstam, a journalist of considerable experience, wrote a book, The
Military Intervention Is Military Intervention in Other Countries Justifiable? The Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms defines military in tervention as "The deliberate act of a nation or a group of nations to introduce its military forces into the course of an existing controversy." The United States military has been intervening in other countries for a long time. In 1898, it seized the Philippines, Cuba, and Puerto Rico from
That is why I became Treasurer of the Wives Club, out of gratefulness for this extended family. I know many people of my generation struggle to find 'who they are' but the structure of the military offers a potent and compelling answer to that question. To serve means always to be at home amongst people who understand exactly what you are going through: "Home is the place where, when
His treatment of civilian casualties is caustically glib, and his support of the war is spurious and irresponsible. His insensitivity is most apparent when he claims of the war, "the people who ought to have been most affected by it, the population of Iraq itself, seemed scarcely to give it their attention," (p. 4). Keegan takes enormous liberties to make such a ludicrous assertion and without any proof. The
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