... claim from him came in the form of a declaration to a free Iraq, liberating it from the "evil dictator". Despite these claims, numerous insinuations, directed towards Bush and his administration suggested that the primary objective in the invasion of Iraq had to do with securing the nation's abundance of petroleum reserves. Terry Anderson states in his book: "One reality in Iraq that everyone can agree ... on was that the nation had enormous proven oil reserves. Before the war, the United States bought nearly one quarter of its imported ... oil from the Persian Gulf, including about $1...

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... controversy of whether it was right or wrong to go to war. There have been many articles in newspapers all over the world written by different journalists, giving their view on the justification of going to war. Obviously people are unique and they all have their own views and understandings of such subjects, but it is human nature to have strong feelings ... proof of chemical and biological weapons and they actually said "Iraq has no mass destruction chemical or biological weapons" which clearly suggests that one of the main reasons for going to war in the first place was a hoax. When...

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... " agenda. Action against Iraq was put on hold until after the war in Afghanistan was over; that explains the timing of this new policy. Since President Bush has now decided that it is appropriate to take some sort of action against Iraq, the United States is faced with many options. The United States has tried in the past to mount a coup and to foster an internal rebellion ... , but both have failed. They remain possibilities but the repression currently taking place in Iraq makes a coup difficult and a rebellion almost suicidal. Another option is a military attack ... a war against Iraq...

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... , are few, and unilateral American sanctions, like those against Iran and Cuba, are many. America levied such retaliation against various countries 61 times between 1993 and 1996 alone. Possibly the most extreme sanctions are contained in the Helms-Burton law of 1996, not only punishing third countries for dealing with Cuba, but preventing any future president from lifting ... the ban without congressional approval in advance. The current New Yorker magazine details the election-year pressures that led President Clinton to sign the bill after Fidel Castro's air force shot down two Cuban-...

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... career highlights have been a mission to ensure transfer to democratic rule in Nigeria in 1998, brokering an agreement between Libya and the UN's security council concerning responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing in 1999 and he organised an international response to the crisis in East Timor in the same year. In 2000, he secured the certification of Israel's withdrawal from the Lebanon and he made, and has continued to make, strong efforts to ... Palestinian hard - liners. For over a year now, his most prominent concern has been the lead-up to and helping his organisation cope with war...

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... 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 extremely "grave violations of human rights" in that thousands of political opponents and ordinary citizens were subjected to all ... kinds of spiritual and physical misery. Therefore, America should volunteerly "meet the challenge to help liberate the Irapi people from the "totalitarian state".(Bush) In fact, what Iraqi people faced was horror and a...

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... highly unlikely that the people of Iraq will develop any trust whatsoever in the current government. One of the main things that have also been perceived as a roadblock to the success of democracy in Iraq is the lack of experience that Iraqis have with even the most basic concepts of democracy. They have never lived under a democracy, and information that you read in a book, or hear ... from someone else is simple not the same as having the experience ... of living in a democratic society. Many have compared the situation in Iraq to that of Germany and Japan after World War II however, ...

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... states two democratic states Ethiopia and Eritrea went to war between 1998 and 2000 (Owen). Owen and Widmaier believe that democracies start wars with other democracies as stated in the paragraph. Nevertheless, Owen and Widmaier show that democracies do indeed go to war with each other. Starting wars with other democratic nations does align with Steve Chan and ... supported Al Qaeda's terrorist network (137). A country's citizens can have a lot of support for their country especially when their country gets involved in foreign conflicts. Chan and Safran state that the popularity of the pr...

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... of aggression? Did these powerful countries have the justifiable reason to declare war and conquer the weaker nations? Answering these questions would mean analyzing the reasons why these superpowers engaged in war. To this, the immediate response of these nations is that they need to do so inorder to uphold peace in the world, promote justice & equality, save the citizens of the weaker state from oppression & suffering and ... seek social order. These reasons are merely not enough to convince the rest of the world that war is justifiable. Scholars and even the common people believe that...

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... overextension. It was during this time that corruption in the bureaucracy became apparent. Over the centuries, many sultans became reduced to "puppets", operated by viziers or Janissaries, causing more confusion. Decline in military power, the focus of the Ottoman government, occurred because of Janissary refusal to accept new war technologies. The Ottoman's trade monopoly in the Mediterranean area was lost becauseof the Portugese discovery of a trade route around Africa. One ... of the final factors was the introduction of more money into the Ottoman economy, causing inflation and othe...

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... these subjects to make sense of the world and space alike. The Islamic people used nature poetically to express the world around them, because nature displayed the wisdom of God and all creates were governed by divine law. This is reflected in the cartography of Muslims in the eighth and ninth centuries. Some of the earliest maps of the Holy Land are found in the Bible. Jews, Islams, and Christians ... fought over control of this Holy Land, since it is sacred to all of them. The first map of the Holy Land was composed by Bernhard von Breydenbach in 1486. This pictorial map was ... Ort...

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... reluctant to invest in the Arab countries and have curtailed their lending in regards to most investment activities in the area. The economy of the Arab nations has been nearly frozen since the attacks on the World Trade Centers. Since the economy of the Gulf region is already being affected by this reluctance to invest any money in the area, and because of the instability caused by the current political turmoil in Iraq, the most likely prospect ... would be that the OPEC members would adjust their output to accommodate the change in Iraq ... ...

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... for the mankind. The greatest philosophers, beginning with Plato, have been raising the question about the appropriateness of "the rulers' falsehood- for the sake of private ambitions and prosperity of the country. The works by James Thurber, an American writer of the XX century, also have a direct political significance. An excellent example is "The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble- published in the mid 40s just at the time of the world power division. The first ... drowned throughout contemporary history. It is an open secret that the officials and generals in Washington, plotting t...

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... guidelines/laws about terrorism and how to properly deal with it as it was created when terrorism was virtually never even heard of. The UN decided to send in weapons inspectors and this was only a way of being passive and not being pro-active. History should have taught us that we ... embargos and restricted air zones. Now they are taking action like in the Gulf War but with the purpose of destroying terrorism for good not liberating Kuwait. You may be asking how can America justify the deaths of innocent civilians and maybe the possible future threat of terrorist acts against themselve...

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... who opposed all of America's core beliefs. A war on terror was declared by President Bush and Iraq and Saddam Hussein were the main targets. The United States began their invasion in hopes of establishing democracy in Iraq seizing weapons of mass destruction and control of Iraq from Hussein, even if it meant going against investigations that didn't find such ... weapons, continuous UN condemnations, and disapproval from U.S. allies. The United States believed that "a democratic transition in Iraq would serve as a role model for other autocratic societies in the region"5 as well as the r...

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... state and a national liberation movement in the state itself. The goal of International Humanitarian Law is to humanize individuals involved in those conflicts, in efforts to minimize the human suffering and negative outcomes of wars. However, notwithstanding the adoption by most countries of the Geneva Conventions and treaties related to IHL, crimes of war arise in every conflict around the world on a regular basis. Recent ... individuals during war times, when knowing that the state they are fighting is not capable of responding to the violations they commit towards its citizens. The hu...

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... were censored 6. Facts like the amount of Iraq deaths caused by the latest bombing, or even overall deaths in the war, were never released. Most people in America didn't even stop to notice that there were some important details missing from all the statistics the U.S. government released. One of the major reasons behind the problem is because all of the broadcasting companies are coming under the ownership of career-dominating ... conglomerates 2. These conglomerates focus more on focus groups and polls, than on actual news. Many people insist that because they are in the "mass media ne...

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... is not a conventional invasion or attack, but a mega- terrorism of the sort the world witnessed on September 11,2001- and "More recently, the murderous suicide attack that killed 88 Australians in Bali sent a message that Australians are very much in the line of fire-. The tone provided in this issue endorses his position towards the War on Iraq, which is a positive one. His approach to writing ... this article was aggressive and forceful but also very informative and factual. The tone of the language presented throughout the issue is put in a way to make the reader sway more to the wri...

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... This lack of support for our underprivileged Americans will ultimately result in an increase in the crime rate across the United States. The governing body of the United States needs to take a hard look at the problems here at home and infuse more resources into programs that help the mentally ill, the jobless, the homeless, and the drug abusers whom can be just as large a threat to national ... with education and job training. These programs work as extended support systems for people whom might need these protective factors. These decreases in spending come in a time when the unemploy...

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... is not only beneficial to the progress of the country, but necessary to the beginnings of the government of Iraq. The following will outline for you, Mr. President, the necessary changes in Iraq for democratization to take place, citing specifically the prerequisites to democracy needed in the nation and the region, the steps needed to be taken in order to create said democracy, and the conditions necessary within and surrounding the nation for these changes ... to remain after the United States and/or other ... ...

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... to flow between positive and negative electrodes, and a separator, which isolates each charge. When a battery is inserted into a circuit, a charge flows around the circuit in a loopy pattern. Electrons result in electrical current on the outer part of the circuit while the charge flows in the form of ions (compounds or atoms that have either lost electrons making them positively charged or gained electrons making them negatively charged) that ... moved from one electron to the other in the internal part of the cell. The positive electrode receives electrons from the external circuit on ...

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... out, Hussein did not flee from his country and the bombing began in the middle of the night on March 20. As the fighting began, so did the criticism from countries and interests groups around the world against the United States, Bush in particular. Russia, China and most of the world were against this. There was also a definite tension between the US and its allies such as France and Germany ... President Bush's decision. Many people felt that it was a great mistake to declare war without the full support of the United Nations. After all, the vast majority of the countries in the United N...

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... 's 12 million Kurds. The Kurds were optimistic in their quest for self-determination in 2003 when the Saddam-regime in Iraq was toppled by the coalition. The future governing body of Iraq is still not apparent. The coalition does not want to set up an autonomous Kurdistan in Iraq because it may cause an uprising of the Kurds in Turkey, Iran, and Syria. The materialization of an independent Kurdistan in the near future looks ... to be unrealistic. The governments of the region remain solidly ... ...

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... security by declaring war on Iraq. To gain respect from other nations, one must prove that they are serious and have determination to exist. In the Darwinian world of the 21st century, nations must take action to survive. The United States took action to protect not only its national interests, but security on a global scale. Realism is "an image of international politics ... another and receives a benefit, it is considered to be a reward. Rewards and compromises can both benefit the organization in the diplomatic relationship as they have benefits to both parties. A main goal of the Un...

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... was even further weakened due to the Arab independence movement. By the end of World War I the Ottoman Empire had collapsed, leading to an Arab administration in Damascus and the Syrian interior, French control of Palestine, and British control of the Syrian coastal areas. In 1915 Britain had assured Hussein, the leader of Mecca in the Arabian Penisula that independent Arab ... entities would be established in parts of the former Ottoman Empire. Despite this promise, it was revealed by Russia in 1917 that in 1916 there was a secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britain and France that di...

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