Bonus- war on terror

Today I am going to do my bonus blog on the war on terror. For those of you who do not know exactly what that is, it is basically the war that we are currently involved in in Iraq and Afghanistan. The reason that we are in this war is because of the attack on September 11, 2001. Furthermore, we are also in this war because we believed Saddam Husain had weapons of mass destruction that he could easily use against us, or another country. Although we did not find any of these weapons of mass destruction, we believe that he could have hid them somewhere off the boarder in lets just say Iran. The first step of this war was when we invaded Iraq with troops. We took a strong hold in Fallujah and Baghdad. These would prove to be huge gains in our war of taking over Iraq and putting a new governmental Democracy in place. It was important for us to instill Democracy in Iraq because for years, Saddam Husain has been dictating these people and not treating the people fairly and even humanly. To prove this, there are even rumors that in Saddam’s spare time, he would like to watch tapes of the torture that his men preformed on people who did not comply with his every wish. In the years to come, we would eventually capture Saddam and release him to the Iraqi people. Later, they would hang him to his death. After we took down Saddam and his army, we would release the power of the government to the Iraqi army. We would help them train and teach them how to fight and keep the peace. Recently, we have been consistently taking our troops out of Iraq, and leaving most of the power to the Iraqi army.

            Now our main focus is in Afghanistan. Here we are constantly fighting against the Taliban who are constantly ambushing American troops by ways of small weapons fire, and the increasing problem we are having with IED, or Improvised Explosive Devise. These are coming more and more of a problem because they are targeting our vehicles and our boots on the ground. There are usually two different types of Improvised Explosive Devices that they are using. The first one is a remote trigger. What they do is sit at a safe distance away and as soon as they see troops over that location, they pull the trigger and blows up the IED. The other one that they use is a pressure detonate. This works from the shallow based IED and when it feels pressure from lets say a body or a vehicle, it explodes. These two types of Improvised Explosive Devises are becoming the worst method of attack that is being used against the United States military. We are doing everything we can to hinder these attacks but they are nearly impossible to clear all of them out. It is just another example of how the Taliban is constantly coming up with new ideas and new technology of things to use against us. It keeps us on our toes, but we are making progress and eventually gong to win and finish this war. It will end.