Community Service

Their are three issues in this world that bother me considerably. The first would be a military problem dealing with the way soldiers are treated, the way recruiters go about recruiting, and how badly organized the army really is. The second would be all the business and people trying to make a buck dishonestly by taking advantage of people and ripping them off (this includes high interest rates). The final would be about George Bush, the war, and its effect on this countries economy.

Out of those three issues I will talk to you about the last one, since it is the most major and impersonal issue. George Bush is a moron and a master of sugar-coat speaking. I apologize for slandering the good President of the U.S. but this President I supported in the beginning has proven to be a very bull-headed and stubborn. I'm sure the government pulled some stunts in getting the public pro-war in the beginning, but things like 9/11 aren't even on anyones minds anymore. That was more than 5 years ago and what one man and his followers did to our country led to us invading a country having little to do with Osama Bin Laden, who didn't even run to Iraq in the first place mind you. What I find funny is that most of the rumors going around claimed Bin Laden to be in Pakistan. Do you find it funny that we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, but left Pakistan alone? It sounds like the Iraq war should be renamed the Bush Family Crusade. After all was it not George Bush's father who started the Gulf War? Could George Bush be looking to finish what his father started?

Now people are begging Bush to withdraw the troops, but he says if we do all our progress will be lost. The Iraqi people would be better off without us there anyways. First of all the majority of them don't even want us their in the first place. Second, we have a pretty good foothold on the country right now, but the only way the country will ever hold together is if we spend the rest of forever there, because the Iraqi people do not have the structure or man-power to keep themselves from falling into the hands of the Taliban. Isn't it ironic how we go into a country looking for one man and end up in the middle of a country's civil war? The Iraqi religion, government, and fate is not up to us and it's ridiculous that we put ourselves in the middle of their conflict. It is my belief that the people of the United States are considered mindless puppets of the government and that they are keeping some very large dark secrets from us. For instance, if terrorists were so concerned with the downfall of the U.S. then why have their been very few attacks on the U.S. in our own country? Sure their have been attacks in Iraq on a terrorist level, but aren't there supposed to be attacks in a civil war? You could say that the reason we haven't had attacks is because of our high security level and alertness, but that has absolutely no factor on terrorists attacking the U.S. If a terrorist wanted to blow up a bunch of people in the U.S. he would move here like any foreigner, find a packed place like a mall or any gathering, and blow himself and everyone else to smithereens. And another thing, what ever happened to all the nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that Iraq supposedly had? Why did we never find them? Could it be that they possibly don't exist? A final example of one of the reasons we shouldn't be in Iraq is how much our country has spent on the war. 2 trillion dollars will have been spent on the war by the time it is over. Bush says that we have put to much into the war to turn back now, but that's his own fault. If the war drags on a lot longer costs will just keep climbing, and that is killing our economy back here in the United States. Oil prices have doubled since the start of the war. The war is the obvious cause for this price gouging, which is another thing I find funny considering we have been stealing Iraq's oil. Did you know that George Bush also owns a very large majority of oil facilities and product in Texas? Interestingly a quick way for Mr. President to get rich quick. I supported the war for a very long time, even when the majority of the U.S. did not, but even a war-monger like myself is sick of this pointless war and see through all the sugar-coated talking of George Bush.

Al Jazeera English News Report:
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D035485E-40E4-47CD-A758-D26784FD782A.htm

Internet Magazine Report: The $2-Trillion War
http://harvardmagazine.com/2006/05/the-2-trillion-war.html