Should The U.S. Have Gone To War In Iraq? (Essay Sample)

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Should the U.S have gone to war in Iraq?
The rivalry between the U.S and Iraq started with the First Gulf War. The U.S action was because of the need for the replacement of the guarantees of the British to the sovereignty of Kuwait. The U.S employed the force of the military to obstruct the attempt of the Iraqi to settle a territorial claim and to forcefully solve the direct economic problem the Iraqi’s encountered after the war of the Iraq and Iran because of the debt of $100 billion to Kuwait (Webster, 11). The violence started declining in 2007, and the U.S gradually restrained its military availability in Iraq. The argument on whether the United States should not or should have attacked Iraq still goes on to date. In my opinion, The United States should not have gone to war in Iraq because of the substantial proof of the adverse impacts of the war that overpowers the positive effects of the war.
Some of the reasons as to why the U.S should not have attacked Iraqi include the fact that there was no justification for pursuing the war (Webster, 15). There was no evidence of The Iraqi’s aggressive act against the United States that justified the war. There had neither been any attacks on the United States, nor threats by The Iraqi’s threats of war with the United States. War ought to be the last option of self-defense which should be pursued on condition that other alternatives or options have been depleted. War by the U.S is considered an aggressive act other than self-defense.
Another reason is that Iraqi did not pose any present and clear danger to the U.S (De Castro, Maria, Ulysses, 141). The White House claimed that they ought to invade Iraqi as a way of preventing Saddam Hussein from utilizing weapons that could cause massive destruction. In the 1990’s the weapon inspectors of the United Nations destroyed all of the major weapons of the Iraqi’s biological and chemical weapons and the missiles (long-range). Scott Ritter, a former inspector of the U.N weapons and an Ex-marine, stated that the Iraqis presented no military threat against the United States (Recchiaxs and Stefano, 634).
Invasion of the Iraq by the U.S diverted the U.S’s resources from other important priorities at home (De Castro, Maria and Ulysses, 150). The estimated cost for an invasion that is fully scaled added up to approximately $200 billion. The increased cost of the expense of the war would have otherwise been invested in the U.S health care system and the country’s overcrowded schools. The U.S should not have engaged in a war with the Iraq due to the great death that was caused by the war. The assault on the city of Baghdad resulted in many American casualties than the Afghanistan war. The toll in Iraq was terrible, and it led to the increased deaths of innocent civilians.
The attack on Iraq was not necessary since there was no need to begin a war due to the need for oil (Bonds, 293). The administration of George Bush claimed that the invasion of Iraq was necessary since Saddam Hussein was assaulting his people and also installing weapons that would cause massive destruction. The U.S, at that time, was supporting the Pakistan’s nuclear-armed dictator leading to the conclusion that the war was basically about oil. People should not at any cost attack one another with the aim of claiming one another’s resources. There was also an increased opposition to the war by the Americans. The Americans knew dee...