The war in Iraq has now entered its fifth year and the violence shows no signs of abating. More people now recognise the war has been a disaster. The war was not justified and everything the US Government said has proved to be a lie, It has not brought peace or stability to Iraq or the Middle East and it has made this country the most unsafe in the world.
A rundown country has been further weakened by a bloody terrorist campaign, an explosion of atavistic hatreds, virtual civil war and the mass exodus of its ablest citizens....A tyranny was overthrown - but at a great cost.
What if Saddam Hussein had not been toppled? Would Iraq be better or worse off? Would the Middle East be more or less stable, the United States safer or in greater danger?
Saddam and his thugs would have continued to kill innocent people—but the victims would have been different, and it is doubtful they would have been as numerous as the victims of the war(more than 1.000.000 victims). Nor would 4 million Iraqis be displaced. Nor would millions more have such severe shortages of health care, electricity, and clean water, or be afraid to walk their own streets.
To date, nearly 4000 American soldiers have been killed and some 29,000 have been injured in the war. Despite its considerable losses, the U.S. military still does not control the country, not even the 16-kilometer-long highway that separates the ultrafortified 'Green Zone' at the heart of the capital from Baghdad's airport on the outskirts of the city.
The world learned that American personnel had been torturing detainees at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, irrevocably damaging the United States' image and credibility
In the other side, Bush, in a speech at the Pentagon, offered some of his boldest assessments of progress and said the war's legacy is absolute:
"The world is better, and the United States of America is safer."So, thank you Mr. Bush :)
