Argumentative Essay On New Iraq War

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"These groups recognize that they are being targeted and are not making themselves so obvious," "They've gone to ground." (NBC). The U.S can’t be striking underground ISIS sites if they don’t know where they are, that’s why ground troops would be useful for locating and infiltrating the underground ISIS sites. 2. So much U.S effort from the previous war has been spent into building a New Iraq it could now go all to waste. The U.S invaded Iraq in 2003 to overthrow Saddam Hussein and his government. The U.S military lost over 4000 troops in the war, and at least 32,000 were physically injured and mentally damaged (Huffington Post). The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has costed the United States government at least 1.26 trillion dollars and maybe 8 trillion dollars for the war on terror overall (Huffington Post). The U.S does not want to see the Iraqi democracy and its army that they they worked so hard for be destroyed by ISIS (Huffington Post). All those dollars and spent and american lives lost would be for nothing. Ⅲ Analysis They fund the military and have direction of the military. Essentially they are the driver’s seat of the U.S military. If the U.S military were to deploy ground troops in Syria and Iraq to deal with ISIS, it would have to come down to Congress not the military. Congress has the power to declare war or authorize use of military force. Congress hasn’t officially declared war since World War 2, so deploying troops to fight ISIS would be act of military force (Washington Post). If congress declares or authorizes the use of military force, they need a majority vote from the senate and the house of representatives for approval. If congress authorizes military force, the president has authority of the military as their commander in

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