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News from New York: Iraq War 5th Anniversary
Iraq: Where America Won the War but Lost the Battle
न्यूयोर्क,
New York,
March 20, 2008-Almost
4000 American soldiers have died and more than 30,000 were wounded
during Iraq war. Wasn’t this for the freedom of the Iraqi people?
One Saddam and 4000 American lives? Sad enough to know the bitter
reality that American soldiers are still sacrificing in the
battlefields of Iraq.It is hard to imagine that it was five years ago when America went to war to topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Husain, who is no longer on earth or threatens the world but his shadow looms over us after these years of battle. Iraqis have no freedom yet to live in peace and safety in their home country although America promised to herald a new ‘freedom’ in place of Saddam’s tyranny.
AFSC 'One Day of the Iraq War' banner. Courtesy: AFSC.Org
Cost of the War
According to The New York Times article written by David M. Herszenhorn
(03/19/08), “Five years in, the Pentagon tags the cost of the Iraq war
at roughly $ 600 billion and counting.” It further mentioned that
“Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and critic of the
war, pegs the long-term cost at more than $ 4 trillion.”What we could do with this “WAR” money?
In the American context, as stated by the AFSC (American Friends Service Committee), a Nobel Peace Prize-winning American Quaker organization, the Iraq war is costing $ 720 million US dollars per day of American tax payers’ money. In its power point presentation “One Day of the Iraq War”, AFSC calculated that 423,529 American children would get free health care insurance from one day Iraq war expense.
Furthermore, the Times quoted Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton as saying that “that is enough to provide health care for all 47 million uninsured Americans and quality pre-kindergarten for every American child, solve the housing crisis once and for all, make college affordable for every American student and provide tax relief to tens of millions of middle-class families.”
When will Iraq War End? In 50 or in 100 years?
No
one can give an exact date. Not even the world’s most powerful leader,
the architect of the Iraq war, President George W. Bush. He once said
that American troops may stay in Iraq for as long as 50 years.Republican Presidential nominee John McCain, on January 3 in Derry, New Hampshire, said “maybe in hundred years.”
President Bush failed to make a prediction of the end of the Iraq war when he marked the fifth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq at the Pentagon on Wednesday, March 19.
President George W. Bush. White House photo by Eric Draper
He said "Five years into this battle, there is an understandable debate over whether the war was worth fighting, whether the fight is worth winning, and whether we can win it. The answers are clear to me: Removing Saddam Hussein from power was the right decision -- and this is a fight America can and must win." (Read President Bush's full speech)
American soldiers will have many more days, if not years, in Iraq to fulfill their commander-in-chief’s “we must win” declaration. But for the sake of what?
In contrast, Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton said, if elected, she will begin to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq within 60 days. Another Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama expressed the similar view. Is it that easy and fast? Question lingers.
As pacifists have long advocated, war is not the answer for freedom or peace. After all, we must agree that war serves no good cause.
-Pradeep Thapa Magar
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