I believe some form of identification for voting is necessary, but the standard requirements for I.D. is a bit over the top in my opinion. Under some state laws you have to have government issue I.D.s, a schoool or work I.D is not sufficient enough for them. I think the question that most people have is, "Why is work or school identification not good enough for the government? Is it just to raise more money for the government?"

There were people who supported and opposed both the Iraqi construction, the construction in the South, and there will be in reconstructions to come. People that supported the reconstruction in the South were White Northerners and African Americans. They supported it because they achieved the cause of freedom that they were fighting for, and they no longer were put into forced labor. They could start new and better lives now that they were "free". People that opposed the reconstruction were White Southerners and members of the Ku Klux Klan. They had lost the war and their economy was going to suffer because they lost their means of labor. The KKK also opposed it because now the people they hated (African Americans) were now free and had rights...to an extent. The same is true for the reconstruction in Iraq. The supporters of the reconstruction would be the Kurds and Shiites, and the UN. Now that Hussein is out of power and the US is helping to rebuild the infrastructure of the country and create a democracy, the people that were being mistreated in the country and the people that were at war with the country can relax. However, people that oppose the reconstruction would be the Sunnis and Al Qaeda. Their leader is no longer in power and they are in turn losing power thanks to the reform of government. They don't like western influence and now that people from the west are helping rebuild the country not in favor of them, it creates more hate towards them.

Although the American Civil War happened 150 years before the war in Iraq, these two conflicts aren't all that different. In both wars America was the country that was parading around causing destruction, and in both cases we were there to rebuild what we destroyed. In the civil war we rebuilt not only the infrastructure, but our relationship with our brothers in the south and our economy. In Iraq we are mostly rebuilding the infrastructure, but also gaining back the trust of the civilians in that country. In both cases we were also helping a weaker force against a stronger force. In the case of the Civil War, we were helping the African American slaves free themselves against their white masters, and in the case of Iraq, we were helping the citizens of their country to salvation from Sadam Hussein (the tyrant leader). Now in the Civil War we were fighting with what could've been our own family so the war had a greater psychological affect on civilians from both sides. The war in Iraq and reconstruction still has a great psychological affect on our troops over there, but it isn't as close to home for as many people as the civil war probably was.

Not only did it help us become a better country, it made us stronger in the post Civil War years throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. If we were still divided we would be like North and South Korea. The south having slavery would make them look bad in the eyes of the modern person around the world. Not only would they look bad, but we would probably still be at war or have high tension between our two countries. Being reunited as one nation also helped our economy drastically. Although there was alot of economical reconstruction after the war, it would probably have been worse if we had not resolved anything and fought for nothing.