Today we continued our discussion over our last week blog assignments.
Kenzie started us off by talking about the major events in the war under Obama. Obama took the troops out of Iraq. Obama also sent troops over to Afghanistan to battle against the Taliban. Obama also ended the torture camps against the abusive treatment towards terrorism suspects. Obama wants to put an end to the "Don't ask,don't tell policy." Republicans are fighting against it and it is still on hold.
Mariah then told us about the Iraq war under President Bush. In 2003 was when we first went over there. The invasion was very sucessful. The Abu Ghraib pictures came out in 2004 which led into people believe the U.S. was not against torture. In 2005 things weren't going right over there and it would take longer than they thought. In 2007 was the surge and it costs us $27 billion dollar and it didn't end the war right away. Towards the end of the war, President Bush's popularity dropped very low. Obama obviously came in and took them out of Iraq.
Catie started us off on Iran. Iran has a population of 65 million people. It's three times the size of Arizona. Iran has a 800 mile desert. The word Iran means "The land of Aryan."
Abby told us about the history of Iran. In the 20th century the discovery of oil in Iran made them very popular. In the 1970s the Iranian Revolution occured which was against the midwest's ways. In 1979 more than 50 innocent people were held hostage in Iran for 444 days.
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