The War On Iraq
Michael P. Haney
Professor Riddle
ENG 111-31a
July 18 2005
The War on Iraq
On Tuesday, September 11th 2001, American Airlines flight #11 took off from Boston's Logan airport with 81 passengers and 11 crew members on what airline pilots called a "severe clear" morning. The time was 8:46 a.m. when a one hundred and thirty-seven ton Boeing 767 filled with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel, flew 500 miles an hour south down the Hudson River and slammed into the north tower of the World Trade Center. At 9:02 a.m. United Airlines flight 175 flew, at the same rate of speed, into the south tower of the World Trade Center, changing American history forever. When the word got out to President George W. Bush, he was furious. "We're at war," he told his aides, "That's what we're paid for, boys." (Newsweek Dec. 3rd, 2001) As a matter of fact, this war was planned years ago.
This war is not about terrorists, it's about gold, oil, and drugs. Our economy is in a major collapse; we've been......
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