The U.S. in Iraq

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This paper analyzes the thesis that because of the immense humanitarian, economic, and political repercussions for both sides, the United States should cease trying to control the sovereign nation of Iraq. It examines how the humanitarian costs are great on both sides, since U.S. soldiers die daily, and also takes into account how the Iraqi people are suffering. It looks at the political damage to the United States and especially Iraq. It shows how the occupation of Iraq by American forces is economically costly and how too much money is being spent on heavy military presence, rather than on social services, both in Iraq and in the United States. It concludes that the American presence in Iraq benefits no one and should be terminated so as to not cause any more damage.

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"In an article in the June 4 edition of USA Today, Dave Moniz recounts a series of American troop deaths from ambush: at the time his article was printed, nineteen troops had been killed since the war ended, nine of which occurred in the first week of June. The exponential growth in ambush and attacks on American soldiers shows that a sizable resistance movement is burgeoning in Iraq. Although US officials claim that these "pockets of resistance" are not organized, the vacuum created by the absence of Saddam Hussein becomes more salient. In fact, even if the resistance movement is unorganized and decentralized now, there is no reason to believe that it will not become more systematic as the US presence becomes less tolerable for the Iraqi people."

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