A Country Ruined

During the aftermath of the 30 dead and 40 wounded in a bombing of a peace conference in Iraq yesterday, experts were warning of a new violence renewed. I started researching Iraq before the second gulf war and found out that during the 15 years before the 2003 war, there has been virtually no reported bombings by any group. Is it possible that we, Americans, have caused this to become a daily event in Iraq?

Lets review this chronologically, first the U.S. forces invade Iraq in 2003 and the Iraqi people rejoice and embrace the invasion for the most part. But how does the U.S. carry out the invasion? They deconstruct the entire Iraqi army and send all soldiers home, they bomb the infrastructure of the government and every ministry (except the Ministry of Oil) and oh yeah, they decide to stay for six or seven years. Those steps, slowly but surely, have turned the Iraqi people against the American army. At this point, Alqaeda terrorists who were coming in through Syria and Saudi Arabia and the Iranian influence from Iran were welcomed guests by the Iraqi people to help kick the Americans out.

Ironically, now when we have no real role in Iraq and turned everything over to the Iraqis, those thousands of terrorists that jumped the borders to attack us are finding new targets: Iraqis. When we speak of the violence in Iraq, we always talk of Sunnis and Shiites, but who are those factions and who is really causing the violence? Could it be the Sunni Alqaeda fighters from Saudi Arabia and Syria and the Shiite militants from Iran and not the actual Iraqis? Most experts in the area would tell you YES.

After 9/11 the question of "Why do terrorists hate us?" was frequently asked by everyone. Well take a gander at another example of how we turned another stable country into the wild wild west.