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Three hundred and fifty billion dollars and thousands of lives later we are still fighting a meaningless war. The U.S. invaded Iraq to get rid of their weapons of mass destruction, to help fight the war on terrorism, and to get rid of Saddam to set up a democracy. We have clearly failed in our attempt to achieve any of these so there is no reason that we should still be in Iraq. The War in Iraq is wrong and we should pull out our troops in immediately.
The main reason that we went into Iraq was to take out Saddam Hussein because the Bush Administration argued that he had connection to Al-Qaeda. Saddam could have been building weapons of mass destruction that he would aid these terrorist with. Before invading we told them that we were going to inspect there country for these weapons. They would not cooperate and insisted that we inspect only under their conditions. Naturally, the U.S. got angry because they were not allowed to do what they wanted. We proceed to invade Iraq and find out that they do not have any nuclear weapons nor planned
on making any. Not only do we find out that he has no weapons, but there is no evidence that even links Saddam to Al-Qaeda.
Now that we have invaded Iraq our goal is to set up a democracy. By overthrowing Saddam it was supposed to lead to the spreading of democracy in the Middle East, decreasing terrorism overall. Bush has freed the Iraqis from Saddam but the government that was put in place is failing. A democracy was supposed to be created but it is not giving the citizens true freedom; they actually are only free to do things that we allow them to do. This is the only way that it is going to be while our army is ...