War poetry

“ A war is going on, but the reason is undercover where’s the truth?”

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I feel this lyric from the song “ Where is the love” by the Black Eyed Peas is appropriate to begin my essay on war poetry as, in today’s war against Iraq nobody really knows why American went into Iraq. Was it not stop the evil that was there all ready? Or was it for something more important that Sadam, Oil. Because in approximately 30 years time there will be no oil left in the entire world and when it becomes extremely rare in a few years time who is going to be in charge of the world’s biggest oil supply in the world, America.
Recently in my history course we have been studding Vietnam which has brought to live for me the realities of war. We saw numerous videos of America dropping nayplam bombs and then we saw the videos of journalists on the ground. Nayplam was originally used to fight the Vietcon as they hid in the forest and the Americans didn’t know where they wher...