Peace thru Arms

            As of December 1st 2003, the military casualties left by the war in Iraq on the Coalition, conformed by United Kingdom, Ukraine, Spain, Poland, Denmark, and United States mainly, averaged thirteen men per week in a two hundred eighty three-day-period that started on March 20th of the same year leaving 525 deaths accounting 440 of them to the US. Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), as the US Government called the major conflict campaign in Iraq, comprehended of only 42 days, generating the death of one hundred thirty nine US soldiers. Even though OIF officially ended on May 1st, the military operations in this Middle Eastern country are still being held in order to keep peace to ensure the reconstruction of an Iraq shattered by decades of war and embargo while Saddam Hussein's Regime was still on the power. By the time, many US citizens expect to see the results of the campaign in Iraq, and have the 130,000 US troops back home. Although the objective of OIF was accomplished by the Coalition when this gained control of Baghdad, the major objective of the war is still not achieved. For this reason, the military presence of the US, and the rest of the Coalition is critical in order to confirm the dissolution of Hussein's regime and the creation of a democratic government so that this will still no longer represent a threat of national security not only to the US but to the World.
             Even though a war is not always the answer to all the conflicts, in this case this became the last option when the diplomatic avenues were exhausted as Iraq did not comply with the United Nations" resolution of disarmament threatening with serious consequences. With the UN trying to solve the conflict diplomatically by inspecting Iraq's territory in the search of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), the Iraqi government did not cooperate the way it should leaving doubts about their denial of the existence of WMD.