Where to Now?

The War In Iraq

How would you feel if a member of your family went off to war? I would feel terrible. The war in Iraq in my point of view is a terrible thing and a waste of time, effort, and money. Just think of young soldiers going to war and getting killed. They never get the chance to have a wife/husband or kids. It is a waste of time to fight for peace that will only last for a little while until something like this happens again and we go to war again.

It is a never ending cycle that will never end unless we do something about it. All the money that goes toward war weapons could be used in much more beneficial ways. We could put it towards AIDS in Africa, world hunger, or poverty. Instead we use money on killing machines.

The thing that we need to do is put ourselves in Iraq’s place. How do they feel? Why do they do the things they do? And how would you fell if you were a child in Iraq? I could tell you if an army came to Utah I would be scared, especially if they didn’t speak the same language as us. Even if they were trying to help us it would still be scary.

From my point of view we never hear about the positive things that happen in Iraq. We always hear about people getting killed and bombings. We never hear about what we have accomplished, if anything. So basically it seems that we are fighting for no reason. I have lost track of why we are fighting in Iraq in the first place.

There is not much a little voice in the world can do but it can give ideas to powerful people and who know what could happen. Every day think how lucky you are to wake up in a country that is not at war. I do.