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The Argument What is called the anti-war movement in the US, is a debate on whether or not to continue the demand for the US to pull its troops out of Iraq and to press for change in the role the military is playing within the country of Iraq The articles I looked at on the war in Iraq had very different opinions. The ones that had the most substation information in them to me was the one that are against the US going back into Iraq with military troops. They claim that military uprising would be costly and would be repeating the same mistakes America made in the past with the Iraq war. The US does not need to go back over to Iraq and start another civil war like we have in the past there has been to many lives lost in the battle already it’s time to pull out and see how Iraq can handle on their own. I feel that there is a stronger argument with supporting reasoning with very good sources on why would should leave Iraq alone. Iraq has cost America enough! The US will be picking up the pieces of this for war for many years. The number of American troops who have died fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan totaled 6,802 as of April 2014 with 32,000 hundred wounded (Maceda). Those individuals came from every part of the United States and its territories, and the great majority was young men. Many were married, with children, and all left families with a lifetime of pain. They died in a host of horrific ways. They were killed by insurgents’ deadly targeting or mangled in the dangerous equipment with which they worked. The causes of death include hostile rocket-propelled grenade fire and the improvised explosive devices that have been responsible for roughly half of all deaths and injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their deaths were also the result of truck rollovers and other vehicle crashes, electrocutions, heatstroke deaths, friendly fire, and

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