It must be understood that United States is now engaged in a Great War, a world war, the third world war since the defeat of the Germans in World War I. The Germans came back for a second round in 1939, and the Allied victory in 1945 seemed to seal a great peace upon the world. But with the rise of the oil monarchies in the Middle East, the balance of power shifted, and vast amounts of money has been put into the hands of nations that less than a hundred years ago were still locked in tribal societies. On September 11, 2001 the culmination of a series of attacks upon the United States took place when the twin towers of the World Trade Center were destroyed. This was preceded by attacks on the marines in Lebanon, upon the US embassy in Kenya, upon the USS Cole, and upon the World Trade Center in 1993 when terrorists attempted to topple the twin towers. In each instance the US response to the massive bloodshed from these suicide bombings was to back away after a fruitless attempt to find and punish these faceless enemies. George W. Bush's response was appropriate in the wake of 9/11. He decided to take out the governments that were sponsoring terrorism and terro

One of the most important reasons why it was urgent for the U.S. and its allies to go in to liberate Iraq’s citizens from Saddam’s brutal dictatorship is because of his ruthless effort to produce and use weapons of mass destruction. Again, it may not be the business of America to take action against a regime that murders its own people, and it may not even be the business of America to intervene with a tyrant who associates itself with known terrorist organizations, but it better be the business of America and the whole international community to remove a leader who does all of the above and also develops and seeks to use weapons of mass destruction. Even during Bill Clinton’s presidency this was a problem that posed a threat to the security of the United States. In 1998 Clinton said, “… will be more lethal if we allow them to build arsenals of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them. There is no more clear example of this threat than Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.” According to UNSCOM (the U.N. weapons inspection program), Iraq began its unrelenting quest to produce weapons of mass

Hussein has proven to the world over the last few decades that he will not hesitate to produce weapons of mass destruction, or to even train and support terrorist organizations that operate to destroy the United States and the principles it stands for. Saddam is a dictator with vast amounts of money who has purchased arms, explosives, paid rewards for suicide bombers, waged war on two of his neighbor countries and murdered thousands of his own citizens with chemical weapons. This evil man must be seen as intolerable in this state of siege that America finds itself in. By taking Saddam out of power, America and its allies have taken the first steps in eliminating a hostile terrorist front that potentially posed grave danger to the U.S. and its future endeavors.

In this era of advanced technology and rapidly growing globalization it is vital to understand that the deadly weapons that pose a threat on the free world will be made readily available to terrorists if regimes like Saddam are not overthrown. Saddam

death. The same held true if someone overheard another referring to Saddam in derogatory ways and failed to report it to the authorities, even if that someone was a family member. There was absolutely no toleration for anything anti-Saddam. He has also sponsored a type genocide that targeted various religious and ethnic groups such as the Shiite and Kurd populations that resides in many areas inside Iraq’s borders. Saddam even targeted these ethnic groups in other countries such as Iran, and in 1980 Iraq invaded Iran and started murdering tens and thousands of Shiite and Kurdish individuals. Human Rights Watch estimated that Iraq’s aggression towards the Kurds resulted in the number of deceased Kurds reaching in the 100,000’s (Kaplan 13). Even Kuwait fell victim to an invasion by Iraq that resulted in the 1992 Gulf War. Saddam continued his vicious ways, being indifferent to the savage killing of Kuw

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