... should the U.S. do now? Prior to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the U.S. promised a speedy transition to a democratic government for the country. The initial plan included the creation of an Iraqi constitution, and the active role of the Iraqi people in the process of establishing a new government and law enforcement. United States officials public announcements have emphasized that the U.S. invasion was not ... occupation, but about liberation. Before the invasion and until May 2003, U.S. officials stressed that an Iraqi-led government would be established "as soon as possible". H...

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... countless innocent people. Now the new government in Afghanistan is virtually a puppet whose strings are in the hands of America and which feels pride in obeying and pleasing the White House. After Afghanistan, the very next target of America was Iraq. America accused Iraq of having deadly chemical and biological weapons that can cause a wholesale death in the world. Perhaps the forgetful America ... help and favour it. But all Iraqis stood as a single nation to defend their motherland. And America once again hit Iraq as violently as she did in Afghanistan. There was inestimable loss of...

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... ve doubted until that point. The U.S. was put in a defensive position and declared a "war on terrorism." Weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq and the U.S. President was quick to invade and attack because of previous events. There are a myriad of opinions about this move. Some think it best ... to change their ruler, but are not able to. Their opinions are not counted in their government which means they are not responsible for the actions of their country. The relationship between the U.S. and Iraq is like Aeneas and Turnus in Virgil's, The Aeneid. Aeneas sought revenge from Tu...

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... Iraq is to discover and destroy any weapons of mass destruction," said the defence minister, Geoffrey Hoon, regarding the deployment of troops to the Gulf in coalition with American forces. The consequential expulsion of the regime of Saddam Hussein has, no doubt, benefited a country suffering from years of sanctions and oppression. His murderous regime has denied the Iraqi people a democratic government ... Bush and Tony Blair claim he did, then other countries would have no choice but to get involved for another main reason. Oil. Iraq is a member of the oil cartel OPEC, and has the sec...

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... they can get their gas and other stuff real cheap with the embargo in place their the only ones getting stuff. but now we're going to war with Iraq they are having all these peace marches saying we will only start wwIII. look how wwII was started ignorence, we let hitler build up and then kept our ... it was too late thats why america is always sticking their nose in other peoples business ignorance is NOT BLISS Liberators have started running adds about the war with iraq all it basically says is that if we start stuff we"re going to get nuked because we are instigating the problem, but ...

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... about preventing unnecessary violence and torture. I have researched and included two articles from different newspapers that provide contrasting views on the subject of war on Iraq. These two articles are written by individuals who have their own views on the war, and I wish to take this opportunity to get my ... admitted that the weapons expert, Dr David Kelly, who apparently committed suicide at the weekend, was its principal source for a story which accused the Blair Government of exaggerating the Iraqi weapons threat"- From London, this is Matt Peacock for AM.. . This statement clea...

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... W. Bush to go back to the United Nations and get resolution 1431, giving the United States and Britain power they already had to disarm Iraq. Then the U.N. weapons inspectors went in again, repeating their 12 year ritual by not finding anything definitive or concrete that would implicate Saddam or ... Because of this, 55% of Americans believe that the U.S. and its allies are winning the war against terrorism. With regards to the war in Iraq, the question of "Are you for it? Are you against it?" seems to eventually boil down to how secure one feels. 32% of Americans ... believe that the...

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... like the League of Nations did before WWII) and let another dictator like Hitler take the world for ransom. America has had a way to deal with Iraq and that is to contain the problem by setting up trade embargos and restricted air zones. Now they are taking action like in the Gulf War but ... way: First they can be used in ballistic missiles but they cant reach places like America or Australia (only Israel another good justification of committing war on Iraq) but they don't need to be placed in missiles for them to reach us. They can be manufactured into spray cans that are very easily ...

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Interview: What do you think about the war in Iraq? I"m writing this paper based on the war in Iraq. I want to know what people think about it and how they really feel. I started off not knowing much about the war, even though it's been going on for a while. Through ... ask him more questions about the war than anyone else because he volunteered to be interviewed. I wanted to interview Tim because I know he's directly affected by what's going on in Iraq and I wanted his point to view. Tim was the only person I interviewed who supported the war, but was against it at the same time. He stated ...

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... help the country? And if he is not helping the country. What exactly is he doing wrong? And how can one change it. A great example is Bush's invading Iraq in order to reorder the government into a democratic one, dependent on a fair constitution and written rights, much like our own. It is almost an impossible task. In fact, the word "reorder" puts it ... difficult, for building the monument might be easy, but having it balance on uneven ground is a task, quite difficult to obtain. The building one can look at as the Iraqi government Bush yearns to change. Yet the undertaking of buildin...

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... or weakness out weight one another, but it is necessary to have both due to the varying definition. The politicians that we elect to run our government are human and they are susceptible to mistakes based on their own strength and weakness. We live in a representative democracy that means "we the people ... positive. It is a kind of relationship, that people tend to remember bad more than the good. Almost everyone is having different opinion about life and government. We think differently about one problem and we want to solve the same problem in different way. For example, today in Amer...

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... the Middle East. President Bush has stated that unless Iraq disarms itself form biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons, war is unavoidable. For the past 10 years Iraq had defied and hid from commands from the United Nations regarding their stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction. When the U.N. weapons inspectors went into Iraq, the Iraqi government had the weapons moved so the inspects could not ... find them. But again and again, Iraq got away with it and the U.N. did nothing. Saddam ... Hussein, one of the most ruthless government rulers in the world today governs Iraq. Hussein...

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... been refortifying buildings that are only used for producing chemicals needed for weapons, and saying that they are being used for civilian purposes. His government has been falsely reporting the amount of weapons they have leftover from the Gulf War. Aid for civilians has been routinely transferred to take care ... of his personnel, and he has been taking money that was earmarked for civilians from the Oil-for-Food program. Scientists in Iraq have reported that Suddam has been working on a mobile plant for extracting chemicals for weapons, thus rendering it harder to track. Every time t...

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... since the times of the bible. America can not send troops over to the Middle East and expect to solve problems that have thousands of years of history. The American government feels like it is their responsibility to have troops in foreign countries at all times. Back in January of 1984 Senator John Tower said, "Withdraw of American troops from Lebanon ... Iran would be a major setback to American interests but that there is little the United States can do to help Iraq directly. The officials said a National Security Council study completed two months ago determined that despite concern...

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... more U.S. citizens wanted Gore than Bush - but Bush won? The Electoral College - which consists of politically adept professionals who decide for us who will run our government - was designed by our founding fathers as a way to avoid crucial decisions being made by the politically inept populace. This per se isn't a bad method. ... all have the right to vote, to make change as we see fit, "for the people, and by the people - however in the matters of government we are repressed by those who have our elected officials by the pocket book. ON FREEDOM OF THE PRESS; WHY WE DON'T KNOW During th...

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... to live without paranoia and suspicion. America has insisted on going into Iraq for many reasons such liberating their women controlling their oil and changing their government to democracy. Did anyone stop any really think or even ask the people of Iraq if they wanted America to help? What about Osamah? He crashed ... planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon and now we are worried about Iraq. Our American troops have been over in Iraq for way ... women. I was always taught that I should respect others beliefs and religions even if they seem a lot different then my own. Maybe th...

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... go and hide? All those Americans supported military action for fear that something like this would happen again and they did not want that to happen. Now I fully understand that Iraq is not Afghanistan, and the reasons for fighting are different. However, these protesters feel that it is not necessary to fight in ... . But lets be realistic, there is a very real threat in Saddam Hussein. According to a CNN poll eighty-six percent of Americans feel that Iraq is a threat. (CNN) Protesters must understand that peace is unattainable when an entire country (Iraq) despises our nation. Proteste...

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... using nuclear weapons in its war against terrorism and hereby encouraging other countries by producing and in the worst case using them. Also, entering Iraq against the will of the United Nations is not an action that makes America a peacekeeper. Of course, the Europeans are happy that Saddam Hussein ... is captured and that hopefully a better time for the Iraq people will come, but not against all prices and regulations. Another example is the prisoners that were made in Afghanistan. Have you ever wondered ... . Today, not only the Islamic countries have a problem with the United State...

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... seven nations; the United States had signed on 31 December 2000, and then on the 6 May 2002 officially unsigned the treaty. China, Iraq and the United States were all against the ratification of international judiciary. These countries alone have a great deal of power over other smaller nations ... in its" hope to deter discussion over the real issue of human rights (see Appendix b, notes 6). The recent military armed conflict in Iraq raised much speculation concerning international law. Accusations of war crimes have been made against both Saddam Hussein's regime and the invading forces,...

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... Palestinians are outraged at Americans, for letting this onslaught of war go on between them, and not limiting Israel's military power. The "spectators-, (Iran, Iraq, and Lebanon) see this, and their respect for the Western world diminishes, they see that the U.S is supportive of Democracy, yet they are out ... to accomplish in the Middle east that much harder. The United States is too lenient with Israel. Israel ran a series of intense bombing runs on Iraq, claiming to be on a nuclear power plant. Israel's air force was finished with the job within the hour. The site had been completely...

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... 's normal to see people burning and boycotting a group for saying that they don't agree with the war, and it has become intolerable to question your government. Americans have taken five hundred steps back, into another era, it's like a mix between Hitler's Germany, Russia before it was reduced to ruins and ... America pre Civil War. Die hard conservatives must be getting such a kick out of this shit. The government has finally been able to monitor people's every move, masking their disgusting violation of privacy, by focusing people's attention towards terrorism and Saddam Hussein. They...

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... reforming the U.S. to make it more efficient and much more democratic. They mainly focused on three types of reforms, which were business, social, and government reforms. They fought to change many things that they felt were wrong. They fought to improve working conditions, living conditions, the power of trusts, society ... were not fit enough to manage a modern city. They wanted to pass what was known as a commission plan that would divide the city's government into several departments that would be controlled by an expert commissioner or board of commissioners. This was a success with ...

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... a new topic of conversation at the table: how Tim is doing. Tim, my older brother, joined the Army in January, and is currently serving in Iraq as part of the 82nd Airborne Division. While this was not an unexpected topic, it certainly is a sensitive and stress-worthy subject for us. While our ... family is no stranger to military service- my grandparents are both veterans and my grandmother's brother was killed in Viet Nam- with Tim currently in Iraq, it seems to become a different kind of story entirely. Instead of past tense, overly dramatic war stories, the family is dealing with the...

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... the Holocaust. Japanese-Americans imprisoned in the United States during the second world war have received repayment, and so has the country of Kuwait from Iraq for their suffering during the Gulf war. The case with Africa is no different. The people of Africa have suffered tremendously, like the people ... This seems like a very heavy task, but at this very moment President Bush will spend eighty-billion dollars to rebuild and govern Iraq. What makes saving Iraq more important than making up for the devastating mistakes made by our ancestors? The people of Africa have suffered through...

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... on America's honourable struggle against terrorists who are out risking there lives simply to casue a big mess. This is the position the most powerfull government in the world displays to the rich, world rescource controling minoirty of the world. However, this is just one govermental stand point on the ... occuring. The war on terrorism is a word most of us hear alot since the collapse of the 2 world trade centres. As the most powerfull government in the world America decided to go all out. They made statement, Either you are on our side. or you are a terrorist. September 11, ... not? ...

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