... States and a handful of allies invaded and replaced the evil dictatorship in Iraq to ensure the safety of the United States, as well as the world. To understand why a dictator like Saddam Hussein is a threat to the international community, it is important to understand his brutally insane nature that has made him comparable to the likes of some of the most atrocious dictators in world history ... close ties with terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda, and in recent years these groups have joined together with tyrants like Saddam Hussein to achieve a unilateral goal: causing chaos and ...

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Why We Fight This question has been asked by many Americans in the last year. And while each individual American must answer this question for themselves, to many, the writing is clearly on the wall. We seek to liberate Iraq from Saddam Hussein and his regime because after September 11th, 2001 we were put on notice that the civilized can no longer live in ... has invaded Kuwait and Iran, set off oil fires that created an environmental disaster in the Persian Gulf, used chemical weapons against his own people, attempted to assassinate former President George Bush, and paid huge cash rewards to...

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... contingents of occupying force remain deployed who watch the sad plight rather indifferently in most of the cases. Armed gangs still wander around and shooting breaks out occasionally. People wonder why a city that was captured within 20 days remains hapless even after two months of takeover even though there has been, at least, one round of civil administrative effort under retired ... list for the restoration of utilities. Basra was made better off in terms of both water and electricity even though it was being managed simply by the occupying British troops. Why then have the American...

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America is tight with isreal, thats why the whole iraq deal happened, why desert storm was such a huge success was because iraq wasn't able to get isreal involved you see because once it hit isreal, isreal would come back that would provoke all the other Arab nations to jump in so saddam now is basically saying yeah america hit me and ill hit Israel and ... point where hitler was walking all over them and he took Poland finally they were like we have to do something now of course then it was too late thats why america is always sticking their nose in other peoples business ignorance is NOT BL...

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... born in Ghana, on the 8th of April 1938, and assumed his current post in January 1997, and was reappointed in January 2001. His 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 ... helping his organisation cope with war in Iraq. While remaining strictly neutral in the conflict himself, he made strong efforts to try and ensure the continuation of weapons inspections under Hans Blix i...

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... regime. Symbolic images of the Iraqi people destroying statutes of Saddam Hussein were transmitted across all regions of the world. Although there was early resistance, and civilian casualties did result from the military action within Iraq, there was a distinct sense that the Iraqi people had indeed been liberated after the disposition of Saddam Hussein. In addition ... within Iraqi society. Zunes (1999) provides an article that examines a similar topic to that raised within this discussion. The article relates to the 1998 US led war against Yugoslavia, and outlines reasons why the war ...

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... humanitarian law. What began as a peaceful protest swiftly turned into a malevolent bloodshed sustained by a collection of multiple foreign interferences. The international community has responded in one way or another to tackle the problems put forth by the conflicting Bashar al-Assad regime and the Syrian people. State actors such as the United States who support opposition groups and Russia who ... War discussed earlier have intervened because of humanitarian reasons. Others, however, have only placed their interests as their first priority. Many people have argued that the internatio...

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... with political transformation. In the late 1700's, the thirteen colonies of the eastern United States struggled to gain independence from Britain. After gaining independence there was a period of time where citizens were unhappy with the US government. Alike the Iraqis, they did not have the right to chose their own political leaders. Therefore, the United States of America should realize how complicated it ... can be to achieve complete freedom and democracy. They must be patient when it comes to intervening with the political transformation of Iraq. (Jones 1984) The beginning stages f...

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... tries to expose the importance of spending taxpayers' dollars at home, because the adoption of an imperialist and expansionist strategy seemed to benefit only the greedy corporations and to transpose to our own population and the rest of the world the feeling that we tried everything we could but that people did not want to be ... helped in any sense, while our own place still need to be rebuilt and adopt another mentality for its own policy. Last December, the U.S. government announced the official ... relate at all with his or her culture and principles. Billions of dollars were spent ...

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... as one country that could use its vast oil wealth to finance terrorist activities. The world had to be persuaded that Iraq posed a real and imminent threat to the world security. In the months that led up to March 19, 2003 invasion, George Bush was faced with a problem regarding the country of Iraq ... also claimed that Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), a clear violation of UN Security Council resolution 1441. Bush was threatening to impose a war on Hussein unless he surrendered these weapons. However, Hussein adamantly denied these accusations and allowed ...

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... in the world of today, as everyone is in range of someone else. If indeed Iraq had the weapons of mass destruction that George 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 second largest oil reserves in ... the world, second only to Saudi Arabia. The world's complete dependence on oil partially explains why the West was so worried at the prospect of Saddam Hussein having the weapons of mass destruction. If he did possess weapons of mass destruction, then ...

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... including the cost of reconstructing and nation building. In the past the US have made decisions that have been proven to be detrimental to other nations. Back in 1991 George Bush Senior's refusal to support the General uprising against President Saddam left thousands of Iraqis to be massacred, while the US backing of the Afghan resistance saw the formation of the Taliban. Will the US ... that is clearly opposed to by a large majority of Australians. And it is this symbolic military commitment that renders Australia a likely terrorist target. George Bush is not our president and neither...

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... the back of strong productivity growth, resilient consumer spending and an upswing in corporate profits, it surged in the first three months of 2002. George Bush's $42 billion economic-stimulus bill seemingly came too late. But by the summer the recovery was sputtering. A rash of corporate scandals ... surplus over ten years had almost disappeared and the country seemed set for a "double-dip" recession or the onset of deflation. To reinvigorate the creaking economy, George Bush reshuffled his economic-policy team and signed into law a second big tax cut in May 2003. November brought a sl...

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... They were also angry because they needed food, water and medicine and the aid promised by President Bush had not appeared. They asked us why the United States was taking over Iraq, and whether the Americans would stay in Iraq forever. They saw the US-led invasion as a ... the Bush administration's alleged desire to free the repressed citizens of Iraq and introduce them to democracy and liberty ought to be supported and encouraged, and the White House's commitment to this supposed war aim closely monitored. George Bush quoted "This nation never conquers, but we liberate". Did he forget t...

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... . 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 aggression. During the bombardmentof ... . Additionally,after Bush claimed victory in Iraqi war, it has been becoming increasingly clear that this war of liveration is a nightmare of occupationfor Iraqi p...

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... or what is responsible for what occurs in international relations. Similar to detectives on a TV show, political experts gather evidence and attempt to understand why an event occurs. In examining the conflict in Iraq, political experts attempt to identify "causal" factors. The underlying task is to examine why the United States went to war in Iraq. The causes for the conflict in Iraq will ... people who make policy. Therefore, understanding the human decision-making process will lead to understanding how international politics works. To understand the causes of the conflict in Iraq by an...

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... the George W. Bush administration form 2001 to 2009. Specifically, the blunders that happened during the occupation of Iraq by the United States in 2004 and how the country struggled to secure Iraq and rebuild their government. According to Diamond ... is, as Diamond writes, the central pedestal that supports all else; because without security one cannot begin to reconstruct the economy, nor can you achieve political and/or social reconstruction. Therefore the error of not taking ... , control over the borders with Syria and Iran, etc. The scarcity of troops and lack of resources availabl...

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... a compelling argument for entering into war with Iraq. On March 19, 2003 at 10:16 P.M. EST, President George W. Bush, in a televised announcement from the Oval Office, formally announced the United States' official declaration of war with Iraq after Sadaam Hussein refused ... was shaking with insecurity when considering their own safety. This above assumption perhaps suggests why Bush's opening statement and first paragraph is so effective. Immediately, Bush announces that one of his main intentions will be to "defend the world from grave danger."" While the statement is not only simple ...

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... state. Pluralist do not view the state as a unitary, rational actor, but rather as a battleground for conflicting bureaucratic and other interests, subject to the pressures of both domestic and transnational interest groups (Viotti and Kauppi 508). Directly opposing the realist perspective, pluralists see the concept of national ... of the people (Locke). Conferring with the multiple actors would only lead to undermining the existence of self interest, an idea on which Locke based his ideas in the form of a representative government. One can see why the concept of self interest is import...

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... text as well as the relationship between image and current, recent and historical events. A single image can serve a multitude of purposes, appear in a range of settings and mean different things to different people. The role of society connected with mass media will also be considered. Through looking we negotiate social relationships and meanings. Image one is a black and white photograph that ... of death and destruction). The accompanying text states exactly what is shown in the picture, which was taken on the fifth of November 2003 Six months after President George Bush declared an...

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... home for the 4th of July. As a reward for capturing Saddam Hussein, and for risking their lives to protect our freedom, these brave soldiers should get the chance to spend Independence Day with their families, at home. These military heroes, who have fought so hard to keep our country as safe as possible, should be rewarded with the thing they long for most ... at home with family and friends. July 4th would be best because it represents the day of the year that symbolizes our freedom as American citizens. Logistically, it would have to be a secret military operation that would mirror G...

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... text as well as the relationship between image and current, recent and historical events. A single image can serve a multitude of purposes, appear in a range of settings and mean different things to different people. The role of society connected with mass media will also be considered. Through looking we negotiate social relationships and meanings. Image one is a black and white photograph that ... of death and destruction). The accompanying text states exactly what is shown in the picture, which was taken on the fifth of November 2003 Six months after President George Bush declared an...

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... goals when initiating wars, although achieving them might come at the expense of the life of civilians. When President George W. Bush persisted that Saddam Hussein imposed a threat to the security of the U.S and Middle East, claiming that Saddam possessed WMDs and that Iraq had accepted and ... Ghraib prison in Iraq, is an example of how states willingness to abide by the humanitarian law is contingent upon other states reciprocating. Recognizing that the Iraqi army would not pose any threat to them, American soldiers did not respect Abu Ghraib prisoners' dignity. This proves that states...

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On January 2003, President Bush proposed a financial plan that would cost taxpayers approximately $700 billion over the next ten years. In May, Congress had passed the plan, but reduced it to about $350 billion. Some of the major components of the package are huge tax cuts across the board including income tax, tax on dividends, and tax on capital gains, and a ... tremendous increase in national defense. The Bush administration argued that this package would help stimulating the economy by giving back money to businesses. Businesses would have more money and would spend it to hire more worke...

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... "killing about 36,000 Iraqis a year, 24,000 of them children under the age of 5." (Friedman) This killed more Iraqis in a month than one week of war did. As a result of Saddam's defiantness President Clinton identified Saddam as a threat to both American and world security, an official in the Clinton administration said, "Washington already believes it has all the authority it needs ... interview on Meet The Press. President Bush also stated that even if Iraq did not have nuclear capabilities at the time, "He could have developed a nuclear weapon over time we would have been in a positi...

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