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Is the war in Iraq justified?
What do you think of when you here the phrase " Weapons of Mass Destruction"? Is it a justification of a four year war with no end insight, or is it just a bunch of right-wing rhetoric? Personally I think it may be a little of both. On march 20, 2003 American troops invaded Iraq and began the war with Iraq. The Bush administration argued that Saddam Hussein was an evil dictator who possessed deadly weapons . He was a man who didn't care about his people. He was a man who didn't believe in freedom or democracy. All of these things are more than true, but are they a justification of war?
The war in Iraq is synonymous with the war on Terrorism, but should it be? I think that answering that question is key in deciding whether or not the war with Iraq is justified. On the surface, Iraq posed no serious threat to American National Security. If September 11th didn't occur, we wouldn't even be in Iraq. The Bush Administration definitely took advantage of this tragedy in order to further their own agenda. The war in Iraq has been seamlessly blended together with the war on Terrorism, and that shouldn't be the case. There are several terrorists in Iraq, who have killed thousands of people, but they were not the ones who were a direct threat to the United States.
I think sometimes people forget that Osama Bin Laden was the one responsible for 9/11; along with the rest of Al-Qaeda. This is the aspect of the war that bothers me the most. The fact that so much focus has been placed on Iraq and not nearly enough on capturing Osama in Laden. One could certainly argue that capturing Bin Laden wouldn't make America any more safer, however I think that it would be a symbolic victory. And it would bring the morale of the terrorists down. I don't want it to sound like I support the terrorist groups in Iraq, I just think that this war could have at least been postponed . There are so many other things that the American public could have benefited from is their tax dollars were spent more responsibly. The justification of the war is far beyond just terrorism. We all know that terrorism is wrong, and we shouldn't just stand back and let it happen, but is it what is best for right now? What have been the benefits of the war? Yes we haven't been attacked again, but I think that has more to do with security be increased in airports and other public places.

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