The Unites States of America officially declared an end to its mission in Iraq on Thursday. During a formal closing ceremony at Baghdad airport, in a fortified compound, they called an end to the war that resulted in 4,500 American and more than 100,000 Iraqi deaths. It began before dawn on March 20th, 2003 in an airstrike aimed at the location where Saddam Hussein was believed to be in hiding. The war cost more than $800 Billion US from America's treasury in what some believed was a fight against terrorism after the 9/11 attacks.
It is about time this war, George Bush's so called "War on Terror," came to an end. The term war on terror is quite ridiculous. Why would you fight a war on terror? Terror is the use of fear to intimidate people and that is precisely what the U.S. military is doing; producing mass amounts of arms to create intimidation. The money the country has used to create terror has been draining funds that could be used to produce jobs or go towards charities. Priorities and opinions vary vastly from person to person but you wouldn't think that national Government priorities would intentionally ruin the lives of so many of its own population.
U.S. marks end of Iraq War
December 15th, 2011
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/12/15/iraq-war-last-day.html
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