Never welcomed in the first place

Asking people why we were even at war in the first place is like asking why Bush served a second term. Maybe it has something to do with money being secretly thrown around outside of the public's vision. Maybe it's because we trust our representatives are making the best informed the decisions. Maybe it's because we choose to see only what we want to see.

One go to reason for declaring war is because it was suspected that there were weapons of mass destruction. The plain and simple reason is because Bush said so and according to a law provision added in the Nixon time, there's not much we could of done about it (except start a Revolution, of course!)

I'm not quite sure why we stayed in Iraq for so long. There turned out to be no WMD, Hussein was not exactly tied to al Qaeda, and even if so, he was executed in 2006. To add to the list, Al Qaeda was not even in Iraq. Not that we need to be in Afghanistan either, but I'm just saying, it doesn't add up. Despite the deteriorated excuses, perhaps we stayed around to lessen the combative dynamic between the Sunni and Shia groups but civil war is not for us. We have too many fights in our own country to fix with the economy being one of them. So much money has been and is still being injected into the war as we struggle to stay afloat and pay off our debt.

The first war in 1991 has done it's damage with all the sanctions slapped on Iraq, it's no wonder why people want us out. We are part of the reason why the country can't pick itself up. The target may have been its government but the arrow fell on its people. As long as the U.S. is still around, more and more innocent Iraqi citizens are being caught up in the crossfire and land is being further destroyed. It started with the U.S. and the U.K. before other nations joined in. We are now the only ones left after the others were privy enough to move out of an issue we were never welcomed to in the first place. In cases of serious threat, intervening should be a joint effort from all. The U.S. sticking around makes it look like the whole thing is truly about our self-interests.

Nonetheless, there is a time-line of pulling out of the war hopefully in a year or so. I understand we have some very heavy equipment along with the reconstructing we should worry about. With this in mind, it doesn't seem like it was worth all the effort for the many hazy excuses for sending over our men and women.

Wars are never really won. I hope that we learn to deal with the issues we already have here before dipping into another country. We are currently in more than 150. Meanwhile, our own land is suffering. Unless we have the support of other countries to unite for a serious threat, or unless we are welcomed, let's keep our eye on what's in front of us.