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Summary/ Strong Response In the piece, " The U.S. Invasion of Iraq Was Not Justified," Mr. Michael T. Klare argues that there is no possible way to justify the invasion of Iraq by the United States government. He objects nearly every conceivable justification for the invasion; namely, the argument that the Bush Administration never had evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction. He objectively blames the Bush Administration for the deaths of American soldiers, only to be followed almost mimicking the statistic that tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians have lost their lives as well. He blames it all on Bush. During the piece, I had to force myself to wrap my brain around the stretches Mr. Klare was willing to take to disband the notion that the …show more content…
Klare's address to the American public has a view valid points. But as with any other persuasive essay, he recognizes only the parts that he wants to which, in turn, skews the readers view of all the reality. Some believe that President Bush decided to invade Iraq for oil money, or as a sort of vengeance, but I believe otherwise. I believe that he has done so much good for the nation that virtually no more Americans comprehend. Take for example, the lives of the Iraqi's whom live there today, the nation is being rebuilt, and not on the tyrannical basis it once was. Iraq is becoming more and more democratic as long as the American Armed Forces remain there. Not only have we succeeded in unconditionally ending what once was, but we have succeeded in causing a reform. How many Americans today believe that the War in Iraq is an unjust cause? How many times have we turned on the television and seen the torment and destruction that ensues there? But can we see all the good we are actually doing? The Iraqi people are so incredibly happy to have the Americans there. It is not just the Iraqi people or at all their Militia, but the insurgents whom come to fight the Americans for their own glory. Whether or not the "realists" of America desire to see, the truth and facts behind all of the this is that Americans have done so much for the Iraqi people and those who have been affected by

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