Cause and Effect

The Illegal War in Iraq

The war in Iraq is an illegal and immoral act perpetrated upon the Iraqi citizens that has caused many negative effects through its short period of activation. One negative effect is the number of casualties, civilian and military alike. The second is the fact that soldiers have started, and will start, oilfields ablaze, destroying part of Iraq's largest profit-making resource. The final effect is the large amount of resources that the United States and its allies must use just to create these death strikes.

The most important of the consequences of the war is the large death count. Many people will die in the U.S. air raids and in the ground assaults simply because of the nature of war. Misguided rockets have already killed many innocent Iraqi citizens; though the U.S. tried to blame it on an Iraqi rocket. They did this because they didn’t want to accept the responsibility, but the Iraqi rockets are only being blamed now when something goes wrong. It is said that the only acceptable death count in war is zero, but both sides have pushed that way of thinking aside in a struggle of hate and violence for what they believe in.

The next effect is the loss of precious natural oil that has occurred because of the illegal U.S. invasion. The U.S. press into Iraq caused them to set fire to their oil fields in rushed panics to punish the U.S. for its storm across the Kuwaiti border. This causes a huge set back in Iraq’s economy only because of the U.S.’s hasty and hostile entrance into the country. There are millions of dollars of oil burning each day, money loss that could have been prevented by a less hostile invasion or, preferably, no invasion.

The final of three effects is the using of the natural resources that any country at war faces. The nation is so conscious about our fuel prices, yet we are sending hundreds of tanks through Iraq, tanks that receive only about half a mile per gallon. Our fuel prices will keep escalating in order to run these vehicles through the deserts of Iraq. Other products that were once made for mass consumers must go towards the military effort now as well, limiting what is on the store shelves. This war will do the economy no good and only burn up the resources and products we are already so worried about losing.

In conclusion, many more bad things than good things would come from a war like this, all effects of it. The worst of these effects is the loss of human life, which is already in the hundreds. The second is the loss of crude oil, Iraq’s most valuable resource. The third and final consequence is the consumption of the attacking countries’ resources as well. This war forces many negative things upon the world, all of which could be avoided if war was avoided in general.