The Bush administration and its supporters believe they have the right to decide unilaterally who needs punishment. I disagree that they are in the best position to determine world justice, or in the best position to determine who is dangerous. Susan Wright’s lecture following the history of making Iraq a rogue state was very useful. My Iraq history has been mostly my memories of the Gulf War —Sadaam Hussein was painted as the modern anti-hero during that period. The Iran-Iraq war was among the last breaths of a U.S. History class, barely worth a mention in the rush of testing. I learned that the main impetus for the sudden transformation of Iraq the nightmares of children’s dreams (and such) came first when Hussein invaded Kuwait. At that point, a tradition of regarding any non-Westernized peoples as uncivilized and irresponsible came to be applied to Iraq. So anyone who believes that their entire nation is somehow inherently evil must explain why we did not always recognize them as part of any axis of evil, and for what reasons we chose to do so.

se, and I decided to research this topic to obtain more knowledge. What this assignment has given me is a better strength to my opinion through equipping it with better information. Where once I didn’t know how to sort out the verity of all the arguments, I feel I can now do so at a level that satisfies at least myself, if not perhaps at a level to convince somebody else (say, a pro-war friend). Where I didn’t know what questions to ask myself at the beginning of my research, I feel I can now identify my concerns as the situation in Iraq, in our country, and in the rest of the world progresses.

One of the readings (“Is it Oil?”) framed the question of Iraqi oil in the larger oil market and global economic scene to say that it is certainly not the entire picture, nor the driving force for Bush and company to go to war over. From what I understood, it said that part of the Bush doctrine includes pre-emptive war to protect U.S. interests, which clearly include oil. In this case, however, it is just a matter of getting our grubby little hands in the mess, which does not call for war. In fact, as Tom Weisskopf said, it would be easier to just drop the sanctions. In the end, with the way that oil distribution is regulated to be stable, I am convinced through the tables and numbers that increasing oil out of Iraq with our control over it will not be a significant profit to the nation nor the individuals of the Bush administration who may have private interests in it.

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