The Pros And Cons Of The Iraq War

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“Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity,” said David Niven. In Iraq, March 2003, the U.S went to war with ISIS. George W. Bush said the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, was hiding nuclear weapons to kill a lot of people. When Barack Obama was elected in 2008, he brought the last U.S troops home. He then took the rest of the troops out in 2011 because it cost too much money for too many deaths. Removing troops from Iraq was a mistake because ISIS got stronger and the U.S troops there aren’t enough to win the Iraq war. Ever since the troops were taken out of Iraq, ISIS got stronger. “Today, ISIL controls several major cities in Iraq and has a growing army of fighters” (Graham 12). While there are no troops