Annotative Bib On The Iraq War
...Abrams, Irwin and Gungwu. The Iraq War and its Consequences. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., 2003.
This author gives many examples of why we are in Iraq fighting for their freedom. They say that is was right and proper to overthrow the Taliban regime which was the main operational base for the terrorist attacks against America. They also say it was right to put extreme pressure on any country providing a safe haven for Al-Qaeda, and hunt them down where ever thy might be hiding. They exclaim that Iraq and the Middle East are all better and safer places without Saddam’s regime. They also explain why the Middle East is too important to the key interests of whole international community to be left solely to the Israelis and the Palestinians.
There are many important facts throughout this book that discuss key ideas in the war. They will greatly help my ideas and thoughts in creating a strong thesis for my viewpoint and opposing. It shows why it was important that we went into the war, and also why we are still fighting in it. At the same time it shows why opposition on why we went into Iraq in the first place.
Bergen, Peter, and Paul Cruickshank. "The Iraq Effect:War Has Increased Terrorism Sevenfold Worldwide." Mother Jones 1 Mar 2007 14 Oct 2008 .
This article states the question that the war on Iraq has caused an increase in terrorism. Although President Bush said that if we weren’t in Iraq fighting they would killing Americans across the world and within our own borders. The administration officials have continued to suggest that there is no evidence that greater jihadist threat exists as a result of the Iraq War. There study shows that the war has caused a sevenfold increase in the yearly rate of fatal jihadist attacks. They don’t argue that without the war the terrorism wouldn’t exist but that the...
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