Iraq War

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The Iraq War : Deteriorating US Moral Integrity

There are many who considered the US invasion of Iraq as morally unjustified . They pointed to the lack of multi-lateral support of the United States from other major powers like Russia , France , and Germany They also pointed that the United States was unable to find any weapons of mass destruction , that President Bush presented as the justification for the invasion of Iraq . There are those who considered the invasion of Iraq as desirable in the short-run (the

overthrowing of the regime of Saddam Hussein ) but unnecessary in the long-run . Long-run here refers to the continued occupation of Iraq by US troops . Retired Lieutenant General William E . Odom of the Yale University (a professor ) noted that a rapid reversal of our present course in Iraq would improve U .S credibility around the world (Odom 1 . According to Odom , US forces in Iraq are already caught in a quagmire that has damaged America 's reputation (Odom 1 . He assumed that the justifications of the US government , specifically that of US President George Bush , were unnecessary to start an invasion . He added that American public opinion is now decidedly against the war and continued occupation . Most of Americans view the war as an extension of the Gulf War that culminated in the 1990 's . The quest for viable resources like oil was the reason why the United States , in the face of a slowing economy , entered into war with Iraq . Thus , even public opinion in England opposed the war effort (Great Britain supported the United States in the war against Saddam Hussein . According to him , almost half of the red state citizens ' of England opposed the war and now the continued occupation of US troops in Iraq . Thus , according to him , the early withdrawal of US troops from Iraq would improve US credibility and enable the United States to regain diplomatic and military mobility ' He cited the recent Zogby poll which suggested that most US troops would welcome an early withdrawal withdrawal date would improve the morale of US troops in Iraq

In a recent poll released by the Washington Post and the ABC News , most of the adult respondents in the United States believe that the coalition effort in Iraq has negatively affected the reputation of the United States (Reid 1 . Seventy percent of the respondents believe that the war with Iraq damaged the image of the United States in the rest of the world . Added to that , 47 of the respondents think that the war has improved the lives of the Iraqi people . Fort-eight percent of the respondents disagree (Reid 1

The general opposition of other major powers in Bush 's plans to invade Iraq was a factor in the result of the survey . Most of the respondents think that US President George Bush made a grievous error when he decided to invade Iraq , even against the opinion of the United Nations Security Council (which termed it as a...