The Disastrous
War
Between the
U.S. and Iraq
By Maynor Lopez
47
Level 7
The war between the United
States and Iraq had a
grave influence on the
planet earth in many
bad ways. For example
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it influenced the
economy, caused pollution, diseases and thousands of deaths. Despite this, humans do not think
about these terrible problems and they destroy our planet.
Since the United States began the war with Iraq, the economy of
the United States has broken down, and the country fell into a horrific
crisis. First of all, because the war between the U.S. and Iraq has swallowed a lot of money, the government of the United States is overwhelmed
with debts to other countries. Another bad effect is that what Iraq exports to the United States which is petroleum, has cause petroleum prices
rise and be inflated. That rise has caused many businesses to go bankrupt.
Therefore, this also caused a large amount of people who live in the United
States to lose their jobs. In conclusion, the rise of the cost of petroleum
made not only many industries in the United States break down, but industries all over the world. Thus, this has also caused unemployment and poverty worldwide.
Another consequence of the war between the United States and
Iraq is the pollution. In addition to deaths when two sides confronted each
other in the battle, the war polluted the environment. For example, they
exploded bombs and fired lots of shots. All the smoke gave off noxious
fumes. Furthermore, all these noxious fumes are affecting the atmosphere and the ozone layer, all this provokes global warming. This causes
the entire vegetation of the soil to dry out and to not produce anything.