Essay About Iraq America And Current Treatment Of Prisoners

American Hyprocrisy
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American Hyprocrisy
With the current treatment of prisoners in Iraq America has suffered a major black eye in their image campaign in the country. With one of the primary reasons we attacked in the first place being that the prisoner abuse was unbelievably cruel and inhumane. Since it appears now that we are no better than the previous regime in the country it seems we only attacked to gain rights to their oil. We look like hypocrites who only attacked the country to greedily satisfy our own oil interests–which most of the world expected anyway. This also puts our troops that are in that country into even greater danger. The insurgency in Iraq will grow to even greater heights now that they have such graphic visual images to support their case that America is an inhumane dangerous country. We did do them a favor to free them from Sadam Husein, but we have had nothing but downhill experiences for our imagine since we got there. From us protecting the oil wells and not civilian interests such as museums, where looters took priceless items that may never be returned. Now with even worse images of prison abuse, there is a much higher risk for terror against our troops or our citizens who are in the country or anywhere in the Middle East region. Iraq needs soldiers to police it, just not American troops, we have a complicated image problem there, and our continued stay isnt doing any good, we should withdraw our troops and get NATO to take over.