... , and finally interviewing an expert in American foreign policy. As citizens in a democracy we deserve the truth. The truth about how our government treats citizens of other countries and other accounts of how bad U.S. Foreign Policy creates negative feelings towards American citizens themselves. To understand how ... the government wants them to hear. Since September 11th American's see a lot of reporting coming from a station called Al-Jazeera. Al-Jazeera is the exception to the rule. It is broadcast out of Qatar, in the Persian Gulf. The station is targeted to its Arab neighbors and A...

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... British and American governments. Many things would change during the years, but the government still kept their focus on the oil. Under the 1975 Algiers Agreement, Iraq ceded 518 km2 of oil-rich borderlands along the Shatt al-Arab in exchange for an Iranian agreement to stop supporting Kurdish rebels in Iraq. ... when Ayatollah Khomeini, who had spent part of his exile in Iraq, encourages colleagues to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Khomeini decided on this because he thought Hussein government was anti-Islamic. But Iran was the weakest out of the two. With the revolution coming to an end, it...

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... an exclusive concession. After lengthy negotiations, a concession was finally granted in 1925. In fact, numerous amounts of oil were discovered and because of the continuous negotiations with the Iraqi government, the TPC was renamed the Iraqi Petroleum Company (IPC) in 1929. This resulted in complete IPC control over the oil in Iraq (Phyllis and Moushabeck 47-49). After the ... form of trench warfare as the Iranians slowly drove Saddam Hussein's armies back into Iraq. Kuwait and many other Arab nations supported Iraq against the Islamic Revolutionary government of Iran, fearful that Sa...

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... Germany, Greece, Hungary, Honduras, Italy, Kuwait, Morocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Korea, Spain, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The war also was financed by countries which were unable to send in troops. Saudi Arabia and Kuwait were the main donors ... the Iraqi forces from Kuwait and reestablish Kuwaiti independence. Bush's decision was probably influenced by his desire to maintain coalition unity. A particular reason was to keep on board the ...

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... supported him like United States, France, And the Soviet Union. In Saddam's view he thought that leaving Kuwait would only hurt his image with the other Arab people. He said that backing down was cowardly and people would see him as a weak leader. He did not want people to see him as one ... prepare for impact. Israel was not sure if it was a chemical or normal missile, so they put on gas masks and chemical gear issued by the government. In the early morning the sound of eight Scuds came roaring into the city. Of the eight, all of them detonated on impact. The highly inaccurate ... Sa...

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... Khairallah Talfah who lived in Baghdad and he had a great influence over him. By the time Saddam was 20 years old, he joins the Arab Baath party and he carried out his first political assassination on a Tikrit who was a supporter of the military ruler Abdel Karim Qassim. The ... February 1, 1976 he was given M.A. Honors Degree in Military Sciences. October 8, 1977 he was elected the Assistant Secretary General of the National Pan-Arab Leadership of the Baath Party. On July 16, 1979 Saddam Hussein was elected as the President of Iraq and as the Chairman of Revolution Command Council ... ...

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... had a support of World Community, because that act of terrorism was considered as a war call to the whole world. Mr. Bush was supported by Great Britain, France, Germany, Holland; Russian government prepared a work of changing experience with American militaries, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, which have a common boundaries with Afghanistan, allowed to use their military airports as bases to the U. S. Air Forces. And ... and in this session Mr. Bolton, who is the head of the Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, United States Department of State, made a statement as...

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... of his political power, and his military purges. Saddam finally gained control of the Iraq presidency in 1979. His many goals as President included attempting to increase industrial production, reorganizing government policies in agriculture, and improving education and the status of women. Hussein first began a successful development program of Iraq's huge petroleum resources. However, this development and economic and social ... advances were at risk when Iraq went to war with Iran from 1980 to 1988. Hussein started this war to control Arab-inhabited areas and especially for oil resour...

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... of the dreaded security apparatus after 1968. July 17-30 1968 The 2nd Ba'th regime takes over. A bloodless rebellion by senior Arab Nationalist officers and retired Ba'thist officers overthrows the regime of President Abd al-Rahman Aref. Saddam is the Deputy Secretary-General of ... chairman of the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC). On the July 30, 1968 Saddam carries out a plot to oust the rival Faction, the Arab Nationalist officers in the coup among others, minister of defense Ibrahim Dawood is sent to Jordan and Prime Minister Abd al-Razzah Nayif is ... International indignation ...

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... in the streets, unable to breath. Also, Saddam has been known to outwardly commend Osama Bin Laden for his work on September 11. Finally, the US government feels that we should strike before we"re struck again. Why wait for another attack? This preemptive action is the reason we are now over seas fighting ... the United States needs to give up military control in order to help them reform. Recently, President Bush asked for $87 billion dollars to reconstruct their government. The UN feels as though security needs to be put in place for the citizens of Iraq, and that is something they don...

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... the often unstable Middle East. "The Middle East had been the source of many of the world's wars after World War II, sometimes almost to point of going nuclear."4 The Arab partners in the Coalition joined the union to prevent what had happened to Kuwait to occur to them. The United States and the other Western partners wanted to ensure a steady ... creating instability in the Middle East. The best way to restore order to the region and create some stability was to force Iraq out of Kuwait and severely weaken his government and military which the Allies were successful in doing. 4AP Pres...

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... fact that the public needs to consider is that "News reporters serve as watchdogs for society at home and abroad. Journalists ask tough questions to hold agencies -- particularly government -- accountable to the public. Sometimes the exchanges are sharp, but most officials understand the importance and fairness of vigorous journalism. Lt. Commander Owens explained it this way: ... a Pentagon leak."" Cooper favored the Post piece by Thomas E. Ricks because it "took a valuable extra step: it explained the strategic benefit' of the leak itself (informing the Arab world of U.S. determination...

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... provides over three billion dollars in aid and training to the Mujahideen. 80s Ronald Reagan was elected President in 1980 his administration was responsible for the most drastic changes in U.S. government, social policy, and economic changes in half a century. Reagan's administration succeeded in eliminating or reducing a number of social programs, which were begun by other presidents. Reagan also lifted many ... of United States foreign policy. Détente, which was a peaceful however strained policy of coexistence with the USSR, was de-emphasized, and the United States foreign policy w...

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... their viewpoint has indeed been proved since the UN inspectors have conducted past searches and have turned up with very little creditable evidence against the Iraqi government. September 11th was not the first event to trigger war with Iraq; our country has been at feud for years with Iraq. About 7 years ... generally been identified as Democrats and they believe that it is not our country so the United States should not interfere with their problems and government affairs. After the attack of September 11, 2001 Republicans tend to think it was definitely necessary that something be do...

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... the 1980's. During that time, the US was clearly in support of Iraq. In 1984, the US restored diplomatic relations with the Iraqi government and removed Iraq from the list of "terrorist nations". Several times during that decade, the US authorized sales of attack helicopters and other weapons ... throughout the 80's (Bush actually mentions this in his recent speeches, citing the attacks against villages in Iraq). However, the reaction of the US government to these "terrorist" actions was muted. In fact, the US supplied Iraq with billions of dollars of aid in the form of money and ... all...

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... crew members including at least 100 foreign news organizations in Iraq this time around including Al Jazeera, the Arab network. (pg. 1) The United States government has trained 232 journalists for combat conditions in Iraq. Because of the "sense of urgency" being created by our government they probably will not have time to train the rest who will go. The journalists who do go ... television viewers back home. Journalists will see first hand what goes on in Iraq and there will without a doubt be books written. I think this move is a terrible plan for our government although they feel st...

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... of Texas on April 25, 1846. After Winfield Scott occupied Mexico City on September 14,1847, a few months later a peace treaty was signed between Mexico and the U.S. A dictatorial Centralist government in Mexico began the war because of the U.S. annexation (1845) of Texas, which Mexico continued to claim despite the establishment of the independent republic of Texas 10 years before. Another ... federal constitution of 1824 had been abrogated in 1835 and replaced by a centralized dictatorship. Also the Federalists, who supported a constitutional democracy, and the Centralists, who were in ...

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... on Foreign Affairs). While it had been decided that a regime change was in order certain events, such as the 2000 increase in Israeli-Arab violence, took precedent and the intended regime change was postponed (Council on Foreign Affairs). When President Bush took office, the only major Iraq-related ... awe" bombing in Baghdad, Kirkuk and Mogul on the 21st. Coalition forces penetrated into central Baghdad on April 9th and all evidence of the Iraqi government diminished (ibid.). On the 15th close to 70 leaders and representatives of different tribal, religious, and civil groups met with of...

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... also served as a foreign policy advisor for Senator John McCain's presidential campaign. William Kristol taught political philosophy and American politics at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Due to Lawrence Kaplan and William Kristol's conservative beliefs, their opinions are bias and favor the war in Iraq. Azor 3 There are three parts to the "Bush Doctrine " that make ... people is a great strategic goal. "7 William Kristol and Lawrence Kaplan are under the impression that it should be an attainable assignment for the United States to install a...

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... Gulf War. In 1990-91 the United States put together a coalition of Middle Eastern and Western nations that drove Iraq from Kuwait. The United States brought western nations and twelve Arab states into a military coalition to enforce the UN resolution. In January 1991 Operation Desert Storm began with air attacks on Iraq that lasted a month. In February, in a fast moving campaign ... Energy Agency that Saddam also had advanced nuclear weapons development programs, a design for a nuclear weapon, and was working on methods of enriching uranium for a nuclear bomb. According to the British g...

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... suppress Saddam Hussein's evil ways. On top of hiring nuclear physicists from the old USSR and Pakistan, in 1993 he also tested biological weapons on the "Kurds", Iraq's largest non-Arab ethnic minority. The hiring of these nuclear physicists could lead to what is known as miniaturization. Miniaturization is a method to reduce the physical size of nuclear bombs. Meaning for example ... a decade ago, with weapons and technology to fight against the terrorist organization. This however, is a lie. After Iraq was forced out of Kuwait in 1991, Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi government agreed t...

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... this up with an address to American people informing them of the attacks on U.S. ships and that he had asked the Congress to pass a resolution "making it clear that our government is united in its determination to take all necessary measures in support of freedom and in defense of peace in Southeast Asia." Congress immediately took up creating a resolution on Southeast ... the strikes because of the "clear and present danger posed by Iraq's weapons-making program." The President went on to say that the U.S. would "work towards the day Iraq has a government worthy of his people." In Janu...

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... actually pushed through to Kuwait and Iraq. Also on this date, Hussein declared that he was annexing Kuwait as part of Iraq. Previously, Hussein had been trying to set up a government in Kuwait that thoroughly supported Iraq and all of its views. This was obviously too much for Hussein to handle because Kuwait would still be a separate nation from Iraq, and ... world, especially the Middle East. On August 12, Hussein proposed his own peace plan that involved the withdrawal of all U.S. forces, and replacement of them by a much smaller and weaker Arab force. He also called for the withdra...

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... Iraq and half the countries of the world like, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Canada, Italy, even Arab countries like, Egypt, Syria ,Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Morocco. That war started after the Iraqi occupation on Kuwait. The Iraqi government occupied Kuwait because Kuwait was trying to destroy the Iraqi economy by supersaturating the world markets with oil and selling it ... the Iraqi economy go down. At that time Iraq was in an emergency need for money because it had newly exited from the eight years Iraqi-Iran war. The Iraqi government got mad and occupied Kuw...

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... secure. Rates of rape, robbery, murder, and kidnapping have increased to outrageous figures. Who is holding the citizens of Iraq accountable right now? Iraq, once the leader for the highest Arab female literacy rates; now the women are afraid to attend class. Violence and harassment has amplified towards women, making traveling to and from their domiciles a living nightmare both in day ... councils have been set up post war, representing 85% of Iraq population. At the national level a constitution and national elections are underway. The citizens possess new feelings towards the new gov...

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