Essays: War in Iraq

by Joel Morse

How terrible I feel when I think of a government that has controlled the minds of the masses, and has convinced them to engage themselves in a war that really is not a war at all. They said it would not be a another Vietna...read more

by Robert Randle

Diary of a Fallen Soldier They started this insipid war by crashing two commercial aircraft into the Twin Towers, killing nearly three thousand American citizens, a third plane into the Pentagon and a fourth one, Flig...read more

by Madlando Aver

The Dying War in our Minds... ...is the War of our Subconscious It seems like it is uniquely American to categorize any type of problem that needs surmounting as a "War." We are a very War minded people. We are condu...read more

by Robert Williscroft

A small group of men labored to jack up a large platform in the middle of the cavern, watched over intently by Dr. Khalid Ibrahim Sayeed, Dr. Jafaar Dhia Jafaar, and Hussein Kamel al-Majid, son-in-law to Saddam Hussein. Ne...read more

by Andrew Kriz

If I was given the ability to change any outcome in any event in history, it would be the Iraq war. When the war began in 2001, I agreed that the United States should invade Iraq because of the September 11th terrorist att...read more

by Jim Bradley

We should not be in Iraq. We should never have been in Iraq in the first place and, now that we are there, we have a tiger by the tail. The only question that remains is whether we can get out fast enough before we find ou...read more

by Samantha Wilcox

There is more behind the scenes of the news and anything you read in the paper. I cannot tell you what it is that lays burried beneath the media but we all should know that there are people above the president. If they wer...read more

by Ruth Beltrante

It is popular opinion that the Iraq War is the cause of political and economic motives, a fight between Eastern and Western cultures or, at the most fundamental level, radical social and religious origins. In fact, the rea...read more

by Levi Bradley

I've read the commentaries about the evil U.S. government, the incompetent U.S. president, the U.S. occupation of Iraq, the lies that got the U.S. into the war, how the U.S. bungled the war, the thousands of innocent Iraqi...read more

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by Andrew Post

The underlying conflict pursuant to the struggle in Iraq in which we are engaged is the most elemental in the history of the human race: wrong versus right. There is no other way to look at it. It could be argued that we w...read more

by Stephen Atkinson

There is war in Iraq, of that be not mistaken. The Iraq "war", is but a battlefield in the broader war waged against America, and the democratic West, by people whose sole aim is to kill us all. This point, salient as i...read more

by Hammoudi Abdelwahab

THE VIRTUAL WORLD There can never be a "civilizations clash", for the simple fact that Civilization is only the natural tendency of humanity towards its evolution to perfection. Civilization has no other goal than...read more

by Joe Bomb

Iraq war is really more about the huge expansion of America's divided powers. America is really made up of two super powers. A Republican side and Democrat side. Each side is powerful enough to control the world. Each sid...read more

by Zulmarie Gonzalez

The war in Iraq: should we be there, should we not? I truly have no opinion on the matter though I think that I should being as how I am extremely opinionated about everything. But, when I think about coming up with a side...read more

by James Boyd

In the build-up to justifying starting a war in Iraq and the subsequent shift in rationales as the original "compelling" reasons evaporated like the ghosts they always were, support for the decision to go to war remained h...read more

by John Calhoon

Is it worth fighting for: The war in Iraq, there are many questions: Why did it start? Should we still be there? Are we making a difference? What is the fighting for? Is there a right answer for any of these or coun...read more

by Ian Loft

The debate over war in Iraq rages on with endless recriminations within what popular press dub coalition of the willing' yet questions remain unanswered as to why it became necessary for the US led invasion that removed Sa...read more

by Debra Clark

No doubt the world knows what happened on September 11,2001 and the great tragedy of events that unfolded that day. Horror and shock could not begin to explain the unbelievable images seen across television screens everywh...read more

by Darren Trim

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? P...read more

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by G. L. Hammontree

The Great Escape 9/11/01 was undeniably the worst attack on American soil in 60 years. However, this was an attack by Osama Bin Laden and the Al Qaeda, not Saddam Hussein. The underlying reason for America's entry int...read more