... strike first and decisively. In the cease-fire that ended the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq gave U.N. inspectors unlimited access to search for and destroy weapons of mass destruction and pledged full, final and complete disclosure of its arsenal. Iraq hindered more than it helped the effort, misleading inspectors and ... law, period. Scott Ritter, a UN weapons inspector in Iraq for six years, asserts that 95% of Iraq's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons have been destroyed. On March 13, 2002, he wrote: "America claims that Iraq lied to inspectors and still has deadly stockpiles. But the Bus...

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... strike first and decisively. In the cease-fire that ended the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq gave U.N. inspectors unlimited access to search for and destroy weapons of mass destruction and pledged full, final and complete disclosure of its arsenal. Iraq hindered more than it helped the effort, misleading inspectors and ... law, period. Scott Ritter, a UN weapons inspector in Iraq for six years, asserts that 95% of Iraq's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons have been destroyed. On March 13, 2002, he wrote: "America claims that Iraq lied to inspectors and still has deadly stockpiles. But the Bus...

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... slogan for a magazine puts it, "Their lives in your hands." The determination of the West to ensure that Saddam in particular doesn't acquire any weapons of mass destruction is not without reason. His history in power speaks for itself. One year after gaining power, he started a conflict with Iran; ... backfired on the American President even more, for why is he bent on pursuing an axis "member" that probably does not possess nuclear weapons in preference to one that does? The sudden attention paid by America to the current Iraqi situation oozes further hypocrisy, further emphasising t...

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... Iraqi regime was being deceitful and noncompliant. Secretary Powell showed satellite photos proving banned materials had been moved from a number of Iraqi weapons facilities. Some of the photos depicted munition bunkers containing active chemicals prior to the inspection team arriving. Powell suspected the Iraqi government ... Pictures were also shown of ballistic missile sites in which cargo trucks were monitored moving the ballistic missile components. Other pictures displayed biological weapons facilities and the denial of U-2 reconnaissance flights. The photographic evidence was stro...

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... can cause a wholesale death in the world. Perhaps the forgetful America had forgotten that her foster-child Israel has heaps of such lethal weapons. A team of U N inspectors was sent to Iraq to find out the so-called deadly weapons; but in spite of deep digging scrutiny they could find nothing of the sort. Now America resorted to another pretext. It declared Saddam a great ... ...

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... keen on vehemently opposing the US. Initially we were told that Iraq had to be disarmed after breaching UN resolutions for over a decade and possessing weapons of mass destruction. And that the United Nations could lose credibility and authority if it allowed Iraq to continually ignore its resolutions. For the past ... world that I strongly suspect it could set loose forces that we would deeply live to regret". The stated US motive - to rid Iraq of weapons of mass destruction - lacks credibility because of Washington's failure to deal with others on the same terms. US allies Israel, Paki...

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... and mad very easily. We didn't love one another, and committed universal sins! ("A Different Kind of War", U.S. News) Chemical Weapons Chemical weapons contain certain elements that change into a gas. It can be prevented using gas masks, vaccines or protective gear. Chemical ... just got sick over time and by then it was hard to tell what caused it. ("Chemical Weapons", Eui-Suk Kim).Biological Weapons Biological weapons contain bacteria, which can be modified to overrun human's immune system. Biological weapons are meant to kill people. They were used during W.W.I and W.W.II. It has been ...

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... American military in Baghdad. Bush's administration lauched this war for two altrustic reasons: Iraq has extremely vialated the human rights, and Iraq threatened the international security with weapons of mass destruction. However, the facts in post-war Iraq tell us that either is there liberation for Iraqi people, nor have the ... weapons of mass destruction ever been found. However the key issue is the oil. Iraqi people have never been liverated by the US. Bush claimed that Saddam Hussein commited ... mass destrucion. Bush claimed at the General Assembly that Iraq had large quantity ...

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... role in any NATO or UN peace-keeping operation. Iraq being a dominant threat to the west has always denied that it has weapons of mass destruction. The United States on the other hand insists that Iraq has weapons like deadly bio-agents and nuclear warheads that are capable of reaching North America. The US being a super power can single handedly take on Saddam ... any plans for Iraq or other nations, " but later on said that any decision made by the UN or the NATO would be accepted by Canada. There has been no weapons inspection in the past 4 years in Iraq hence its not possible to per...

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... harm. Congress is committed to working with the president to eliminate terrorist threats against America."" In addition, Bush said that it is also necessary to prevent regimes, who seek nuclear weapons. I understand how it is important for our country, when I have read following information in official site of council of Foreign Relations. "In 1995, members of Aum Shinrikyo, a Japanese cult, released ... saran nerve gas into the Tokyo subway, killing 12 and wounding over 3,500 "the first recorded use of chemical weapons by terrorists. The first deadly use of biological weapons by terror...

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... holds a doctorate in modern literature and a bachelor's degree in law. U.S. SHOW OF FORCE On Saturday morning, soldiers patrolled through Tikrit and the eastern banks of the Tigris river, site of a deadly attack Thursday by Saddam loyalists. The patrol began late Friday and ended early Saturday. Intended as a show of force, it was also an attempt to flush out pockets of armed ... of the fiercest and best coordinated since American forces arrived in the Tikrit area in April. Fifty-eight Iraqis were captured after the attacks and U.S. troops seized a considerable number of weapons from a ...

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