The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends is one of many documentaries
to hit theaters over the last year that
take a look at the growing costs of
the Iraq war, and by "costs" I mean the human toll and the capabilities
of the United States to exert its power on other countries. Of course, The
Ground Truth also begs the question: does every soldier in Iraq actually
think it''s a waste of time?
Personally, I don''t see why we went to Iraq in the first place. Sure, Saddam
was a bad man, but he had done nothing to actively provoke us. He wasn''t harboring
al Qaeda, he apparently didn''t have much in the way of Weapons of Mass Destruction,
and with a war already raging in Afghanistan, it was absolutely absurd to open
up a battle on a second front. Along with the fact that the Bush administration
lied to us to get us to go to war, they clearly did not have a good plan for
securing the country once they toppled Saddam''s regime, as is clear from the
constant attacks and suicide bombings that come so often now most people don''t
even read the articles about them anymore.
So that being said, I feel for the soldiers in Iraq. It isn''t to the same scale
as Vietnam in that the country is turning its back on its soldiers, but these
guys are over there dying for what was an absolute misstep on the part of the
President. At the same time, they have to do their job, and if they don''t do
their job do we actually think the country is just going to get better overnight?