War in Iraq should be stopped

As we mark the four-year anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq , we must consider all the evidence before us and come to an educated conclusion as to the best course of action for America to pursue . I believe strongly that America must withdraw from Iraq . This will outline the many factors that I believe lead to this conclusion

It is not overly pessimistic to focus on the reasons for going to war with Iraq , because understand the beginning of a story can better illuminate its most ideal conclusion . The actual reason

for invading Iraq , however , is something that historians will attempt to articulate for decades to come . Different people have very different perceptions of why we invaded Iraq , but all of the reasons start at a common point 9 /11

We know , as a matter of widely-accepted fact , that Saddam Hussein and his government played absolutely no role in the 9 /11 attacks . We know this . We also know , however , that if it were not for 9 /11 , we would not have invaded Iraq . How do we account for this discrepancy ? There was no causality Iraq did not cause 9 /11 . There was , however , some sort of correlation , which held that Iraq had something , something to do with the terrorist threat as it was manifested by al-Qaeda on 9 /11

The Bush Administration attempted to illustrate this alleged correlation by saying that Saddam Hussein was a terrorist . Since the people who attacked us were also terrorists , they were somehow related In terms of evidence that Saddam Hussein had been involved in specific acts of terrorism against the United States , however , there simply was br

There was also the fact that Saddam Hussein was a secular dictator who had spent most of his career torturing and killing religious radicals and Islamist terrorists of the sort that attacked America on 9 /11 America and Saddam Hussein had a common enemy in radical Islamists That is why America supported Saddam Hussein for many years

In addition , it was alleged that Saddam had stockpiled vast quantities of chemical and biological weapons (WMD ) since 1998 , when United Nations weapons inspectors had left Iraq . Again , however , there was no hard evidence of these assertions , only rumors and an understandable lack of trust in Saddam Hussein '92s word

The case for war held that after 9 /11 , we must overthrow Saddam Hussein before he gives his WMD to terrorists . The flaw with this case was that Saddam had nothing to do with 9 /11 , there was no evidence of his cooperating with Islamist terrorists targeting America , and there was no evidence that he had WMD

So , in terms of the threat that Iraq posed to the United States , the only case that existed rested on huge leaps of faith and logic . The second component to the case for war was that Saddam must be overthrown due to his brutality to the Iraqi people and due to the lack of democracy in the Middle East . It...