Essay | Operation Iraqi Freedom

Remember the old joke about the U.S. giving an aircraft carrier to a third world country that is now beating it into millions of spearheads? Something like that is going on now in Iraq - only it's no joke. To date nearly 700 American soldiers have lost their lives, over 3000 have been wounded, and the war has cost us well over 110-billion dollars and still rising.

Because we live in a country that is governed by the rule of law, as a nation, we were ill prepared to deal with such a primitive society. Our efforts to engage the Iraqi's in a postwar healing process have failed. We were ill prepared to deal with a society that has been dominated by fear; a society that has been tormented and intimidated under the brutal dictatorship of...
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