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Pols 110 Why We Fight
Oliver Elder Elder
POLS 110

Why We Fight

I believe that Americans feel the need to fight in order to spread their democracy and what they consider freedom. Americans invade other countries, get involved with their affairs, and in the end try to install their own form of government. For example: in Iraq, America invaded under the thought that they had W.M.D. and a threat the world. When in reality America sold them most of their weapons America took out Saddam Hussein and tried to rebuild the country in a way America saw fit. American democracy was forced upon the society.

America fights in order to make money and the rich become richer. When the US is involved in a conflict more jobs are created at home in order
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