Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Blog 2: Allegory of the cave

Many things in this world are not what they seem. The world is filled with illusions and they range from things like somebody having a fake nose to the government making up big programs to help the economy. One instance of something that wasn't what it seemed was the war in iraq. It all started after 9/11 when a terrorist attack on the united states caused the president at the time George W. Bush to start a war against terrorism but also to start claiming that iraq and Saddam Hussein were hording and hiding "Weapons of mass destruction" in his country. The president then started operation iraqi freedom which started in 2001. 
As time past and no  "weapons" were being found people started to wonder what we were really in iraq for if there were no weapons and Saddam Hussein really had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks. The goverment and the president heard the chatter about it and at every chance tried to reassure the people that there were "weapons of mass destruction" there and they just needed more time to find them. After years past the it was finally relised that there was no weapons being hid and iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 alot of people started to cathc on that there was never weapons in Iraq and there probably was no reason to go there to handle any threats so there had to be an another objective for why we had went into Iraq in the first place and not had only focused on terrorist. The goverment tried everything to reassure the public they had no secret objectives for going into Iraq but a vast majority of people do not buy it. Now with Barrack Obama as president he is trying to pull the troops out of Iraq with them really not having a purpose to be there anymore.
The American public had a blinders pulled  over there eyes by the government and now everybody realised that it was just a rouse for what we still dont know for sure.

1 comment:

  1. I have to admit: you have found an excellent example of a collective illusion/delusion created by the distorted shadows on the wall.

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