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Colonies were not only established in less inhabited places where there were few or no unified native states like North America and Africa, but also in lands where ancient civilizations and states existed like India, Malaya, Indonesia, and the Inca lands of South America. The emigration of European settlers to the Western Hemisphere and Africa was known as colonization. As the Europeans came so did their attitude of assumed superiority. The Europeans merely took over control without large-scale settlements.

From the 15th to the 17th cent, the Portuguese and the Dutch built “trading empires” in Africa and the East for the exploitation of the resources. Then Spanish and Portuguese established important colonies in the New World hoping to exploit the mineral wealth of the lands they conquered. The British and French imperialists became the forem

This in turn, brings us to the situation in Iraq. I believe strongly that the U.S. led war was for Economic Imperialism. UNSCOM, the UN weapons inspections body, was made into a tool of the U.S. mission to take over Iraq. It was reported UNSCOM synchronized consistently with U.S. and Israeli intelligence on which sites to inspect, also agents of these services were placed in the inspection teams. Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector, writes . Another Source Rolf Ekeus, who led the weapons inspections mission from 1991 to 1997, said on an interview to Swedish radio . I believe that there was an ambition to cause a crisis through pressure. Through blunt harassment, there was even an inspection of the Department of Defense. This was believed to be because of U.S. interest to find out about how Iraq’s security services were organized and what Iraq’s military capacity was. Rolf Ekeus also said that “he was conscious of the U.S seeking information on where President Saddam Hussein was hiding”. Indicating interest if one were to target him personally.

ost of colonial settlement in Africa and the East. The European nations in the 18th cent, attempted to regulate the trade of their colonies in the interests of the mother country. Later, the increase of manufactures in the Industrial Revolution introduced a new form of imperialism, as industrial nations scrambled both for markets and for raw materials.

Iraq’s oil resources are vast, surpassed only by Saudi Arabia, and as cheap to obtain as Saudi oil. Experts say that Iraq’s proven 115 billion barrels of oil reserves, might only be half of what the country’s possess. Three decades of political instability and war have kept Iraq from developing 55 of its 7

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