Reflections: War in Iraq 19 Articles

by Ted Sherman

An Arizona boy with a Hispanic last name was killed in Iraq this week. He was nineteen, a fun-loving teenager just a year out of high school. Unlike my GI generation of World War II, Korea and Vietnam, he wasn't drafted. H...read more

by Dale Hoskin

Hidden deep within the fog of war, obscured by the accusations and counter accusations about "weapons of mass destruction, the nuclear threat, bringing democracy to the region, and we're fighting them over there so that we...read more

by Ian W.

After one of the bloodiest weekends ever in Iraq, in which over 220 people were killed as the result of car bombings, suicide bombings, and shootings, Iraqi civilians have decided that they've had enough. They have lost co...read more

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by Olivia Bredbenner

I would never pretend to know enough about the war in Iraq or the answers to the questions regarding our presence there. But I can respond to what I read, see and hear in the media. It is striking to me that if their e...read more

by tlcoriginals

The upcoming election has made the war in Iraq a political tennis ball for the candidates it seems; back and forth; back and forth; with the media refereeing, and scoring the points, passed on to uninformed, uneducated, ...read more

by T. M. Beeker

War? What war? There is no war in Iraq. There are sons and daughters of this great nation being trained as grunts who are then told to be peace officers in a nation that is swamped in violence. That is not a war but a 'pol...read more

by Rex Coker

I was watching the movie " Saving Private Ryan" the other night . I was by myself and I was trying to get some time away from writing my book . I watched with admiration as the young men of that time stormed the beaches of...read more

by Robert C. Sage

The Bush neo-cons very effectively beat the drums of war by demonizing Saddam Hussein in the build-up to the pre-emptive invasion of Iraq. With insufficient numbers of solders, American troops have been running in circles...read more

by Laura Sugden

Three months ago, I married my husband, a soldier serving in the British Army, posted to Germany. As I write, the regiment are preparing to deploy to Iraq for the second time in three years. Before I met my husband, I will...read more

by Carolyn Tytler

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent." Isaac Asimov In 2003, George W. Bush ordered the United States military to invade Iraq. He justified the attack to the American people by telling them that Saddam Hussein ...read more

by penspeakz

As i was saying i really prefer to stand on the fence over this issue because i don't know which of the sides to take. One school of thought asserts boldly and for good reason that the problem in Iraq is the acute shortage...read more

by Kevin J. Putnam

Shock and Awe. Remember that little ditty. President Bush was riding high in his popularity. America was attacked by terrorists and Bush was the president. Everybody tried to get behind him and win the war on terrorism. Ir...read more

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by Valerie Kelly

As two more boy soldiers die in the never ending fiasco that is Iraq I get so incensed at the attitude of our leaders. Who do they think they are? What amazes me is how thy can sleep at night. Do they think that we are all...read more

by B. Thomas Cooper

As the Iraq conflict drags on, the controversial situation with Blackwater is rising to a boil. Many have been critical of their contribution to the war effort from day one. Since when does the US military rely on overpric...read more

by Dale Wittler

I found a tattered flag today discarded like an old rag. It lay hidden in a cabinet all crumpled up like it was of no good use anymore. At first I felt shocked to see it there all torn and faded as if neglected for a long ...read more

by Ahmed Maher Saleh

after few years sooner or later all the foreign troops will leave Iraq according to the history of the world but we will find in Iraq two or three countries like west and east Germany after the second world war and like no...read more

by Gary Betts

The United States owes all Iraqi citizens a huge public apology over the invasion of their country. The U.S. turned a stable country inside-out over an invasion based on falsehoods and flawed information. Prior to 2003, th...read more

by Lou Argo

And my point is in the last wrong categorized article is that it would be akin to us dropping Paratroopers in Paris in World War two and bombing Paris buildings at random telling the Germans to get out. And just doing noth...read more

by Baqir Shameem

Ever since I can remember, barring a very few occasions, I have always participated as a silent but remorseful momin in majalises, mathams, and julus associated with Moharram, mourning the martyrdom of the second Grandson ...read more