... have minimal casualties. Today's technology has forever changed the face of war. I plan to discuss just a few of these technological advances in the weapons being used in the current conflict with Iraq. The B-52H Stratofortress is one of the United States Air Force's most consistent bombers. It is an ... Co-Pilot, Electronic Warfare Officer, Radar Navigator and Navigator. The forty-year-old, $50 million airplane can carry as many as twelve different types of weapons, such as GPS - (global position system) or laser-guided bombs and missiles. Some of these require a release window of 20 to ...

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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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... 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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... the President proposing with the right resolution on this matter? Probably not, because there is no existing evidence of Iraqi" possession of nuclear weapons nor any intention to use such weapons. In fact, Bush and his cabinet's real intention is to assert the U.S. domination and control of Iraqi's oil wealth. When being ... "international terror"? There is no evidence to support the claims. It is increasingly clear that the proposed attack on Iraq has nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction or with the war on terror. During the Gulf War in 1991, while the United States bombed Ira...

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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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... 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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... ended in 1991, the United Nations resolved that the economic embargo on Iraq would be lifted if Iraq destroyed its chemical, biological and nuclear weapons programs within six months. Iraq refused to do so. So it made oil soar high in price. He made oil and gas prices ... missiles against Saudi Arabia and Israel. In 1995 Iraq admitted to having possession of brewing thousands of gallons of deadly germs and toxins and loading some of them in bombs, missile and rockets. The weapons included anthrax, botulinum toxin, Clostridium perfringens, a flesh-eating bacterium that causes gas gangren...

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... Illness" multiple diseases have been introduced such as Mad Cow Disease, AIDS, Ebola, etc. The Gulf War Illness is an extremely contagious and deadly disease that evolves from a germ warfare agent known as "mycoplasma fermentans". This agent contains a gene that is linked to the HIV virus. ... of babies born to veterans suffer from these complications. The biological warfare used to harm our troops is commonly used to develop biological weapons. These agents were shipped from the American Type Culture Collection. This is an organization that collects and distributes biological specimens...

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... the first place were the actions by Saddam Hussein around the time of the Gulf War. The UN's intentions were to prevent Iraq from acquiring dangerous weapons of mass destruction, whether it be by lack of supplies or money. Although it seemed like a good idea at first, as time passed, things ... to end. Who is to blame them? It's scary to think about a country that has used deadly biological and nuclear weapons before having the ability to obtain such materials to make and use these types of weapons again (Williams 2). Even though the United States and the United Nations would be basical...

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... sides saw themselves as victims. Neither side wanted to contemplate compromise in order to obtain peace. For decades the Middle East threatened to make the United States apart of it's deadly wars. Until 1993, when Israel and the Palestinians signed the Declaration of Principles on the White House lawn, the bridge to make peace hadn't taken place. Now the briged Arab ... or regional peace. The amendment to the 1995 U.S. Nuclear Non- Proliferation Act triggered severe sanctions against any non-nuclear state that engages in nuclear testing. Indian's decision to test nuclear weapons was sha...

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... vehicles, and artillery pieces. It was still dark when the soldiers reached Kuwait city. Small groups of police and civilians armed with rifles fired at the Iraqi troops, but their weapons were no matches for the armored tanks that blasted at anything that moved. As the Iraqi troops neared the palace, the president ordered his family to go in the helicopter ... Gulf and Red Sea launched more than 100 Tomahawk cruise missiles, equipped with special computers that show detailed maps of Iraq and the distance the missile needs to travel. With deadly accuracy the cruise missile destroyed man...

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... than 110 times. The idea of sanctions was sparked by Woodrow Wilson when he said, "A nation boycotted is a nation that is in sight of surrender, apply this economic, peaceful, silent, deadly remedy and there will be no need for force."" (Hufbauer Page 79) Economic Sanctions entail the denial of customary export, import or financial relations with a target country. The country issuing ... violating country to change the countries laws or policies. Some examples of this would be when the United States blocked World Bank loans from India/Pakistan because they had nuclear weapons. In order ...

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