The war in Iraq.

There, I said it. Now, for those of you who are still reading, I shall get to the point. In recent months, many people have covered this topic in just about every magazine and every newspaper across the country; no, I’m sorry, across the world. Despite this fact, there are things about the war that need to be said. Many of them have been said before and many of them will continue to be said for years to come, but none of them will matter if nobody listens.

So on that note, please listen.

This war is about more than what is being told to us-it is about greed and power. The man in charge tells us we are fighting a war to liberate the people of Iraq, however, it is those very people who fight against us.

Was Saddam Hussein a threat to America? Eventually, he might have been. However, the last time I checked, that does not give us the justification to invade a country that, to the best of my knowledge, showed no signs of aggression towards us whatsoever.

So what else does this war mean?

In its very essence, this war can almost be conceived of as a way of America meeting its quota for the century. This country has been in what seems to be a constant state of war, or war recovery, from the American Revolution to the Vietnam War. Despite the fact that most civilians are opposed to war, the U.S. has built its historic reputation on being a war-enthusiastic country.

With the exception of Vietnam, the majority of the wars taken part in by the U.S. have resulted in a “victory” of some kind, victory being a difficult word to say, seeing as in war there is no true winner.

A point that should also be made is that in the Civil War, the United States didn’t have a choice but to win, although that does bring up the thought that even when there isn’t anyone else to fight, we’ll always have each other.

So, to bring it all back to a point, the country that we all so proudly call home does seem to have a quota to meet, doesn’t it? Why else would we have invaded a country that did nothing to us since the last time we attempted to invade, “coincidentally” during a period when another man with a very similar last name to our current president was in power?

Beats me.

All I know for sure is this country is spending billions of dollars that could be used for more important things such as health care, public education, scholarships, or public housing.

Even building children’s hospitals seems like a plausible way to spend all that money they’ve used. But then again what do I know? The government has been doing this since before I was born. I suppose spending money to end lives is far more important than spending it to save them.

In the very end and until next time, I am the Accordion Cowboy. I’m still here, and I’m still mentioning….