Postcolonial Iraq

This article talked about the state that Iraq is in now after the peak of the war and troops being there for five years. It was interesting to read because opens your eyes to what Iraq is really like. The author compared it to conditions in Africa where the poverty rate is around 75%. This article made me question why we're really in Iraq. We've been there for five and years and I can't think of a major achievement we've had. Other than capturing Saddam, which could have been done without tearing a country apart, no pluses have come out of it. Increasing poverty rates, unnecessary civilian and soldier deaths, hundreds of billions of dollars being spent, those are the major affects the war has had. It's time to leave Iraq and let them form their government. They need to control their own land.