... . 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 writer's opinion The tone the writer's uses is very supportive of the war on Iraq and very disappointed in the way some of Australia's society is patronizing what must be done to save them ... !-. Scare Tactics are used right through the issue appealing to the reader's emotions "If not disarmed, Saddam will use the cover of his nuclear weapons to try to forcibly unite the Middle...

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... by entities with ulterior motives. There should be a bigger focus on individual rights entitled to each person, regardless of religious, ethnic or tribal background. Making each individual feel more secure will encourage the participation of the masses within the government, and that will make it more accurately representative. And after all this planning, there is still the question of whether or not a democracy has a place in the Middle ... East, or in Iraq specifically. The region of the Middle East, and specifically the leaders of countries surrounding Iraq, such as ... remember that...

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... hours to relinquish your control over Iraq or the war begins". As it turns 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. Even ... sides continue to mount. The US military, to this date, has sustained 351 deaths and another 1,268 wounded s...

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... vicious dictator out of power, who has committed so many heinous crimes (torturing the children of parents who are believed to oppose the regime by smashing their teeth in, breaking their bones etc ) to his, own people, but to stabilise the whole of the Middle East. Why would we want to stabilise the Middle East? Well in 1967 three Arab nations (Egypt, Jordan and Syria) banded together under one man ... named Gamal Abdel-Nasser who started a war against Israel. For unknown reasons Israel defeated all three Arab nations. Now this isn't a history lesson on the Middle East but it does give...

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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 ... of mass destruction, and whether or not he posed a threat to international security. However, the US and UK did not allow these inspections to ru...

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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 ... displaying early navigational wisdom. These maps show all of the trading stops a Mediterranean sailor might have made, including traveling on the Atlantic Ocean. These maps led explorers across the At...

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... non-Islamic peoples were not considered equals to Muslims, they were given far more freedom and autonomy than in most other ruling systems at that time. In fact, when Spain was reconquered by the Christians, many Jews fled to remain under the umbrella of Ottoman rule. Though non-Muslims experienced this unusually hospitable treatment, there were some boundaries which they ... an Ottoman himself. He was an Albanian born in the Greek city of Kavalla. Ali controlled the Egyption economy by fixing prices and handling foreign trade virtually by himself. With an ultimate goal of establishing a ...

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... of Iraq against their ruthless leader Saddam Hussein to remove him from power claiming he possessed weapons of mass destruction, to remove the "nest of terrorists" that existed in Iraq and bring democracy to Iraq in hopes that it would spillover to surrounding Middle Eastern countries. The United States had ignored previous terrorist attacks from al Qaeda against Americans and American embassies around ... Washington."1 Since Afghanistan sanctioned al Qaeda and Afghan leaders refused to "hand over the terrorists," they became "the prime target in America's war on terrorism."2 The United...

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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 ... 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 wh...

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... of Bashar al-Assad. They also sought to strengthen the non-religious supporters in the opposition, to ensure their allegiance was fortified and that they would not be tempted by Islamic extremism. If the civil war is not stopped the consequences for the United States are crucial. The continuation of political unrest in Syria could spread to the entire Middle East and require U.S military intervention. Military intervention can be immensely detrimental ... to the US economy, primarily due to the excessive cost to the already ... ...

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... that Canada's troops are well trained, hence they should take part in maintaining world peace and human rights. On the other hand, it is also questioned whether Canada's troops are as efficient when compared to the US troops who have had more than a decade's experience in the Middle East. In this frame of reference Canada should only provide humanitarian aid and refrain ... from active involvement. Prime Minister (PM) Stephen Harper is determined to be involved in ISIS and declared during a press conference in Ottawa that, "We [Canada] will not stand on the sidelines and watch " (Hume)....

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... for such cases. Propaganda by definition is: "ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc.. The main purpose of this paper is to show how subtle propaganda affected American media in relation to the War in Iraq and served to change the opinions of the population. In order to justify the war, the president gave several explanations ... Jazeera, an Arab news channel. According to Paul Eedle: "The intent and ambition has been absolutely clear from day one. The vision is in depth, unbiased, human...

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... 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 known as an "inside out" strike by pinpoint weapons; this would remove Saddam and could actually ... States. Furthermore, hatred of the United States will take place, resulting in more deaths. War is not the right answer or procedure at this stage of our civilization. Leader...

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... effecting the development of a successful democracy in Iraq is what the Iraqis perceive as being unwanted interference from the United States in the development of their own individual style of democracy. No one wants a dictator like Saddam Hussein to gain power; however this is a decision that should be made by the Iraqi people. The United States has attempted to impose democracy based upon traditions that are foreign to Middle Eastern ... the ethnic, social, cultural and religious needs of the population of Iraq. It is inevitable that religion is going to play some type of political r...

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... between a 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 conflicts ... to the security of the U.S and Middle East, claiming that Saddam possessed WMDs and that Iraq had accepted and trained Al-Qaeda terrorists, th...

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What the World Thinks of 'the Embargo' By Daniel Schorr The "embargo," from the Spanish word "embargar" (to hinder or restrain) has probably seen its best days as a weapon of coercion. The undiscriminating punishment of guilty tyrants and innocent people alike has brought the condemnation of Pope John Paul II. In his state of the world address Jan. 10, he called sanctions against Iraq "pitiless." In 1995, he criticized the embargo on ... 's recommendation, declared an embargo on North Korea and China. In Europe, a NATO organization called the Coordinating Committee, or CoCom, rode herd on expo...

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Oil was discovered early in the Middle East and has been a leading cause of economic growth for the region. In countries, such as Syria, where oil is not as important they depend on agriculture. Other countries, facing the prospect of oil depletion also depend on agriculture. The economies of Algeria, Bahrain, and Syria depend on oil and agriculture, as well as mining and manufacturing for survival. While Algeria ... cotton was Syria's principal export crop. However, as the countries oil fields began to develop, petroleum became the main export. Oil was first discovered in Syria in the 1950s....

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... The fact the USA were forced into the war by the devastating attack at Pearl Harbour in December 1941, an attack on their own homeland, showed that every country is a potential target for attack. After the 11th September, the world was again changed. It became clear that enemies had the knowledge and the ability to strike deep into the heart of a country without warning. The terrorists responsible for the atrocity came from the Middle ... soldier. For example, the USA is obsessed with the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) supposedly possessed by Iraq, yet they do nothing about Israel's. I...

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... 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 extremely "grave violations of human rights" in that thousands of political opponents and ordinary citizens were subjected to all kinds ... misery. Therefore, America should v...

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... for that matter. This is really the case that is happening to the world these days. America, being the most awesome superpower in this world is waging war against Iraq in the pretext of liberating its people and making the world a safer place against weapons of mass destruction. Though these things may be right considering the long list of abuses and oppression brought by the Saddam Hussein regime, it still ... is morally wrong and unjustifiable to do so. The numerous war casualties, destruction ... ...

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... of 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 o...

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... tend to go to war with aristocratic or non-democratic governments. Owens explains "The United States' real motives for attacking Iraq may have been complex, but 'regime change' -- the replacement of Saddam Hussein's gruesome tyranny with a democracy -- was central to Washington's rhetoric by the time it began bombing Baghdad in March 2003"" (Owen). This assures that a democracy's motive is to go ... to war with a non democratic nation just because the country is not a democratic country. Owens finds that the White House got its science wrong and ... there was a situation involving sendi...

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... not new 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 perfunctory look at this witty ... ...

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... been 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 ... ...

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... only were hundreds of ethnic Albanians accidentally killed by NATO bombing raids, but the Serbs, unable to respond to NATO air attacks, turned their wrath against the most vulnerable segments of the population: the very Kosovar Albanians NATO claimed it would be defending'. Furthermore, 'Despite the bombing, Serbian troop presence in Kosovo increased as the bombing continued and the repression of the Kosovar Albanians dramatically escalated' Zunes (1999:452). Therefore ... , after examining the preceding consequences, it can be argued that a utilitarian would not support the decision to ...

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