http://imgur.com/gallery/XDbdb I have to agree with the teacher on this one
The paper itself seemed scattered and that it had a leftist anti war agenda, didn't back up certain statements with enough data, included COMPLETELY ERRONEOUS DATA and the language of the paper seemed more angry than it really needed to be.
1: The causes and effects of the 2nd Iraqi Gulf war goes back to the 80's and 90's and doesn't have as much to do with Osama Bin Laden as it does to booting out Saddam Hussein COMPLETELY and the tyrants of the Ba'athist Party who attempted to illegally annex Kuwait and therefore control a larger amount of the world's petroleum resources. After the first Iraqi American Gulf War, the UN sanctioned Iraq and it resulted in the deaths of about 500,000 children and those children grew up starving and pissed but also marginalized because they weren't of the Ba'athist party.
2. the Ba'athist party NEEDED to go...and there was some bad data that Saddam's chemical and biological war engineers were running around the desert in like...big ass mobile labs and vans and shit and the BIG worry was...do they possibly have or are reaching for nuclear technology?
Al Qaida didn't have any real grasp in Iraq until the second Gulf war after we came in and started using the card deck to find the 52 worst human rights abusers in Iraq
After that happened Al Qaida made a run for it and we stayed and went the distance via Bush AND LATER President Obama and helped Iraq reach for a more true democracy that also included the problems of the Iraqi Kurds, Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims...you know...like a 3 party system.
Was the teacher being a prick? Not really to be honest...I think that teacher was saying...this is November...this essay is not an example of good historical political research with a clear thesis and it's not presented in a way that I can grade and it will take me too long to grade this with any sense of decency so fuck it, it's an F because I say it's an F and this kid needs to go back to English Composition 101 and get off the high horse and RESEARCH.
Saddam Hussein was GASSING the Kurds in northern Iraq who only wanted a little bit of peace and quiet after being almost exterminated by the Turks....and in the 80's Iran and Iraq were like...hey we want each others nations to be completely Sunni or completely Shia and HEY WHO'S got the most oil, damn it..?
Saddam Hussein GASSED OUR TROOPS IN THE FIRST GULF WAR AND BECAUSE OUR TROOPS GENERALLY KEEP THEIR MOUTHS SHUT ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FIRST GULF WAR IT TOOK YEARS TO COME TO TERMS WITH THAT. BECAUSE OF FUCKING VIETNAM AND THE NAPALM, THE MEDIA AND THE WAY THAT MEDIA FILM PORTRAYS WAR USING LOGICAL FALLACIES TO TWEAK OUR EMOTIONS. IS WAR BAD? WAR IS CHAOS. THE TROOPS WEREN'T BAD. THE TROOPS WERE DOING THEIR FUCKING JOB.
So the reasons that we went in to Iraq in the first place WAS because:
Kuwait got annexed by a dickhead who was gassing his own people and wanted more control of OPEC, Saudi Arabia, one of our MOST CRUCIAL MIDEAST ALLIES AT THE TIME, was like FUCK THAT SHIT, we were like HELL NO, we went in, ...pushed Saddam the FUCK OUT, the Ba'athists started BURNING the oil fields of Iraq because they assumed that we were only there to TAKE OVER THEIR OIL, we didn't manage to kill him but we did manage to destroy a WHOLE buttload of important strategic places and then the U.N. sanctioned Iraq heavily which didn't work because the Ba'athist party takes care of itself first.
WHILE ALL OF THIS IS GOING ON, Osama Bin Laden is using the media distractions to BOMB AND MAIM AND KILL:
Muslims in Kenya
U.S.S. Cole
U.S.S Liberty
HAMAS
Malaysia
Indonesia
Northern Africa
America
Just before the Senate is attempting to impeach President Clinton OVER ONE POWERHUNGRY PROSECUTORS NEED TO TAKE DOWN A PRESIDENCY, Saddam Hussein takes that excuse to start FUCKING WITH THE KURDS AGAIN.
Just before Osama Bin Laden takes down the towers, Saddam Hussein uses this as an excuse to start fucking around with his own people again (anyone remember the 100% voting scandal?)
MOST of the terrorists in the attack came from Saudi Arabia but Osama and his AQ had already been hiding in Afghanistan for years because the Taliban, who overtook Afghanistan and reduced its OWN people to rubble and took over the drug fields of opium, were like HEY you GOT MONEY? COME ON OVER
And so in conclusion: the title of the paper SHOULD have been
The Cause and Effect of War on the 2nd Gulf War Veterans
NOT the Cause and Effect of the Iraqi War
Osama Bin Laden was Saudi Arabian NOT AFGHANI. HE WAS THE YOUNGER SON OF BILLIONAIRES WHO PROBABLY DIDN'T GET ENOUGH ATTENTION AND WHEN OUR NAVY SEALS FUCKED HIS SHIT UP, HE WAS PROBABLY TRYING TO CRANKWANK IT TO CHILD PORN IN HIS MILLION DOLLAR MANSION. DOES THIS REMIND YOU OF ANYONE? LIKE...THE CHILD RAPIST WHO DIRECTED THE PIANIST?
Osama Bin Laden was a jihad fighter in Afghanistan and we funded his fight BECAUSE the Soviets were trying to take over Afghanistan.
Then Osama turned around after the Soviets left and decided HEYI'MAFUCKINGGODONEARTH let's change the way ALL Muslims live and make them live EXACTLY as I do...
And thusly the Al Qaida network sprang forth...
Osama was a master strategist who was taught by us...he was a fucking MASS MURDERER who KILLED AND MAIMED AND BROKE THE BACKS OF THOUSANDS OF MUSLIMS ALL OVER THE WORLD AND HE DID FOR DECADES
Muslims all over the world were like...holy shit I want to live and keep my family together and the reformer and peaceful mullahs and imams were murdered and the Muslim world was left with dictators in control who then went after the MODERATE mullahs and imams until EVERYONE AGREED BECAUSE THEY JUST WANTED TO STAY ALIVE AND PROTECT THEIR FAMILIES.
When the TOWERS WENT DOWN...WE WENT TO TOWN. It's not over yet. We need more time to strike down the other leaders of Al Quada who are right now at this VERY MOMENT attempting to lead the charge and we still have soldiers in Germany and Afghanistan who very well may have to go back but only time will tell if that is feasible
This election IS CRUCIAL.
ALSO Osama Bin Laden started his war with America in the EIGHTIES. NOT ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, 2001.
The 2nd Gulf War did not result in a weaker America. It OPENED THE EYES of a NEW and more pacifistic generation of people who had NEVER seen America attacked on its own SOIL.
I remember the FIRST time Osama attacked the WORLD TRADE TOWERS. I remember seeing the news and reading about the news and the paper's logical fallacies are so glaring that I want to copy it, paste it, and FIX EVERYTHING IN IT.
It's THE MOST AGGRAVATING PAPER I'VE READ IN ABOUT 5 YEARS.
NOW I REST MY CASE.
P.S Saudi Arabia is and has been one of the MOST important allies we've had for decades. Even more important to our economic health than Israel. Osama wasn't just gunning for America, he was trying to topple the constitutional monarchies and governmental systems of the ENTIRE MUSLIM WORLD in order to IMPOSE SHARIA LAW.
He is responsible for the murders and assassinations of people in 90 percent of the countries of the ENTIRE WORLD.
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