essay # 1

My Ethos in the letter is when I say I come from the Middle East and I have been to the Middle East many times. I am familiar with they way the people think and the way the goverment is in power. My Logos is Iraq has only got worse since America has invaded. Iraq people are very hard headed and stubborn. My Pathos is the fact the so many people are dying in Iraq and children are dying too. Iraq is ruined and houses are destroyed. Bush’s idea of the Middle East is totally wrong, especially with Iraq. I wonder if Bush has any good people working for him that know anything about the Middle East. Unless you were born there or have parents with deep roots there, you can never understand the way of life in the Middle East. The Middle East is mostly made up of Muslims. Unless you understand the traditions and the religion, you can never understand the people that live there. Iraq is not going to change their ways, they are going to fight even more for there beliefs on how their country should be governed. The people in Iraq want the Americans to leave and as long as America is in Iraq, the people get angrier and more people will die. America invaded Iraq hoping to make it better, but it has only gotten worse and it’s going to keep getting worse until America leaves. The Iraqi people do not believe in the American way of life. They might want the freedom to make money, like is possible to do in America, but they would never like to live the Western lifestyle. Most Westerners believe that Middle East people are oppressed and forced to live a certain way of life when in fact, they love their simple way of life and the simple times. There is corruption in the government in Iraq. The same goes for every Middle East country. Show me where in the world that the ruler of a country doesn’t have a personal agenda and more wealth than sometimes the country is worth. Sadam was a bad person. He committed crimes that he should have had to pay for, and he did. If you ask the people of the neighboring countries what they thought of Sadam, they would tell you that although what he did was wrong and tragic, he controlled the people of Iraq just like they needed to be controlled. Once Iraq was “freed” from Sadam, the opposing religious groups began killing each other in an attempt to control the country. This never happened when Sadam was in power. If we examine the recent history of Iraq, when was the last time that there was mass killing like there is today. Even after a year, there is no end in sight. There is no stable government, army, police or political leaders. Where else in the world do you see the mass killing like in Iraq today? How was the removal of their president a good thing? Recently, Bush asked Congress for several hundred millions of dollars to help re-build Iraq. Wouldn’t this money have been better spent in this country on social issues that need to be addressed, like health care. Bush can tell the American people that we went to Iraq to get rid of a bad dictator. We really went to Iraq to free the oil the world wants but couldn’t have with the current embargoes against the then current leader. There have been other worse crimes against humanity in the world, but we didn’t invade these countries. The televisions in America don’t show what is really happening in Iraq. The coverage by CNN is pathetic and one sided. If you watch CNN throughout the day, you will see the same images shown all day. Watch an Arab television station and see what really happens in the country we invaded. There are very few homes for the people to live in and the ones that are standing are torn apart. There is not much running water and no sanitation services. The schools are closed. I have personally seen images of children walking to the store. The children are walking past dead bodies that are decaying but still lying in the street. There are too many to remove, no one to remove them, and no place to bury them. Before we praise Bush for what he has done, we need to examine what he has really done. Did he make a bad situation better or did he make it worse. If Bush wants to know what his actions mean to the American people, he should look at his approval rating in the news. It is the lowest of any president in the history of this country.