... 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 have confirmed that the devastations of war continue to have a destructive impact especially on the civilian population. According to the United Nation's statistics, 80 to 90 percent ... of war victims are estimated to be civilians. This high percentage proves that states have usually been indifferent about protecting the life and dignity ... government ignored ...

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... the greatest consequences or benefits possible. A highly documented issue, receiving international attention in recent months, relates to the war in Iraq. As with all significant military conflicts, there was much contention and deliberation among the public, throughout all regions of the world. The conflict involved an army of allied forces, including US, British, Australian, and Polish military personnel, infiltrating Iraq ... with the primary aim of regime reform. During the prior months to the war, tension had mounted between the US and Iraq, relating to the development of ' ... rel...

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... and now Iraq. By making the issue so black and white, many people have been left voiceless. Clearly Saddam Hussein is a tyrannical leader, who the world would be better off without, but is war the answer? Judging by the populace of peace rallies around the world, many people including myself don't think so. Of course with the US being the superpower of the ... his immediate region, and immanent, and non-existent outside. Yet Iraq is caricatured as if it were a superpower that challenges the world. This alarmist approach adopted by the US is a blatant attempt to scare other nations into ...

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... the military remained engulfed in battle, the rest of the world - America included - continued to be absorbed in the media. They turned to media outlets such as television and newspapers to give them information about the War in Iraq that had started in 2003. American media is not state owned, thus ... 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 $10 billion annually from Saddam. Anothe...

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... the actual 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 ... On the 24th of September 2003, it was announced on the BBC News that thousands of inspectors who went to Iraq during and after the war found no proof of chemical and biological weapons and they actually said "Iraq has no mass destruction chemical or biological weapons" which clearly su...

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... Iraq. Many times uncertainty about the future has an even more negative effect on the economy than being involved in the actual war. This seems to be the case with the United States as we continue to anticipate a change in our country's status. The American people are reluctant to spend money, particularly in ... output to accommodate the change in Iraq's production. This would keep the global price of oil fairly stable. In the long term, if the Iraqi regime is changed by the war and Saddam Hussein is no longer in power, the embargo which has been imposed on Iraq could be lifted could ...

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... politics states that factors external to nations and the international political environment determine how nations and transnational actors on the world stage interact. To determine the causes of the war in Iraq, the polarity of the global political stage will be examined. As the number of poles in a ... system increases, the system becomes quite complex. With the world in multi-polar system, the probability of war is higher than a world in a uni-polar system. The United States decision to enter war in Iraq, while dismissed by many nations, displayed the role of the United States ... as...

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... to two hundred and fifty million troops resulted in an expense of approximately $13 billion. And the monthly cost of maintaining this force is a whopping $9 billion. A "shock and awe" war strategy raised the total bill several notches higher (Stark). Equipment costs are as follows: $55 bullets; million-dollar cruise missiles; $4 billion aircraft carriers and $50 million jets on board ( ... prices rose up sharply, stock prices plummeted, consumers and businesses went into a state of paralysis, and finally widespread unemployment is adding to the ever-increasing burden on Americans. The wa...

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... to two hundred and fifty million troops resulted in an expense of approximately $13 billion. And the monthly cost of maintaining this force is a whopping $9 billion. A "shock and awe" war strategy raised the total bill several notches higher (Stark). Equipment costs are as follows: $55 bullets; million-dollar cruise missiles; $4 billion aircraft carriers and $50 million jets on board ( ... prices rose up sharply, stock prices plummeted, consumers and businesses went into a state of paralysis, and finally widespread unemployment is adding to the ever-increasing burden on Americans. The wa...

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... would enable the economic reforms necessary to reconstruct the Iraqi economy as well as make Iraq the third biggest exporter of oil in the world. It is widely held that Saddam's reliance on chemical and biological weapons gave him an unrealistic viewpoint. He felt that no Arab ... would invade. Even on 1 August 1990, senior officials including US Defence Secretary Cheney believed invasion highly unlikely. Having been so spectacularly surprised, the world quickly came to the defence of Kuwait. UN Security Council Resolution 660 condemned Iraqi hostilities and called on Iraq to withdraw. T...

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... to two hundred and fifty million troops resulted in an expense of approximately $13 billion. And the monthly cost of maintaining this force is a whopping $9 billion. A "shock and awe" war strategy raised the total bill several notches higher (Stark). Equipment costs are as follows: $55 bullets; million-dollar cruise missiles; $4 billion aircraft carriers and $50 million jets on board ( ... prices rose up sharply, stock prices plummeted, consumers and businesses went into a state of paralysis, and finally widespread unemployment is adding to the ever-increasing burden on Americans. The wa...

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... 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 you some ... action taken against Saddam and his regime. What kind of civilised country would let this happen to the people that have given so much to the western world isn't turning our backs a form of terrorism? Now for the mysterious weapons of mass destruction. Believe it or not but t...

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... 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 the return of the Arms Inspectors in Iraq for verification. ... . Together, they demanded the disarmament of Iraq otherwise the president of the United States would not hesitate to unleash the most powerful army in the world on Iraq. Bush also said that the Hussein regime was harboring terrorists, and in a post September ...

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... United States is now engaged in a Great War, a world war, the third world war since the defeat of the Germans in World War I. The Germans came back for a second round in 1939, and the Allied victory in 1945 seemed to seal a great peace upon the world. But with the rise of the oil ... 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 ... of poisons and gases and m...

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... two altrustic 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 ... "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 Baghdad, the western world was noved by the plight of Ali Ismai...

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... yeah america hit me and ill hit Israel and you'll see what will happen.everyone says we go over there for oil, no in 1991 when the war first started schartzcof *dont know how to spell his name but was the general in charge of desert storm* any way right before it started america and allies ... many he had 215 if he could hide that much stuff from us right before war time and we have one of the best intelligence branches in the world what is he hiding from us now? well forever the french have been losers about war wwII they give up and hardly put up a fight to germany then call to ... ...

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... been placed upon Iraq and the responsibilities and personal involvement of the United States in the war against terror. It must be first established, that as the world's only superpower and self proclaimed leader of the free world, America has a responsibility to help foster and encourage peace and democratic principles. Therefore, because ... it is logical that any attack would require the Americans to lead the way. Now it is reasonable to assume that, especially within the western world, the dictator of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, is an international criminal and vindicator of terror. It wa...

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... nuclear weapons to try to forcibly unite the Middle East to confront the Western alliance. I chose article number three, which is "The war against Iraq is also the war against global terrorism- and the writer of this article is Dr. Colin Rubenstein who is the executive director of Australia/Jewish and Australia ... 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 fac...

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... 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 Cuba, saying "the people should not be made to suffer." The idea of an ... economic stranglehold lacks today what it had during the cold war - an organizing principle with widespread public support. In 1954, the United Nations, on America's recommendation, declared an embargo on North Korea and China. In...

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... issues that led to Bush's decision and speech. For previous decades, Iraq was proven to being a dangerous threat to not only nations around the world, but to its own people. Mueller states that "Iraq has a long record of active support for international terrorist groups. Indeed it apparently has ... That drastically changed following the events of September 11, 2001 when thousands of American lives were lost in the event of two commercial airliners collapsing the World Trade Center in New York City, one striking the Pentagon, and another crashing in Pennsylvania. The tragic events caused ...

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... as important as they currently are. It would also be hypocritical to accuse America of policing the world and being imperialistic, for Europe was only to happy to let America take the lead role in the Gulf War and in the latter part of the Second World War. Yet when America decides not to intervene, not to "police" other parts of the globe, it ... like this sounding frighteningly realistic, we realise just how much the world relies on America. It seems sadly ironic that France, the country accusing the US of policing the world, would not be around today were it not for American interven...

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... that has been made is between the US role in Iraq, and the role that they played in rebuilding Germany and Japan at the end of World War II. Bellin (2004) states that the situations are not at all comparable for one primary reason, Iraq unlike both Germany and Japan was not ... Another reason that the situations are not seen as being comparable is that both Japan and Germany were democratic nations before they became involved in World War II. Japan had been governed by Constitutional Monarchy for several decades, and after the fall of the German monarchy Germany was governed by the ... ...

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... War Iraq? Those who have been watching the war on television are familiar with the video footage after the US military took control of Safwan, the southern Iraqi border town, when a man was captured on film hitting a large, partially destroyed wall portrait of Saddam Hussein with his shoe. It was the first glimpses the world ... has viewed of joyous Iraqis dancing in the street before their American liberators. Assurances of American and British war advocates who maintained that this military action is indeed liberation and not conquest, ... witnessed no rejoicing. Townspeople surrounde...

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... world history; it marked a change in foreign policy of America, moving from a defensive military policy, to one of pre-emptive war. President Bush sent our armed forces overseas to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. In the weeks leading up to, and after the deployment of our troops, there were many anti-war ... was correct in sending our troops to Iraq. Saddam Hussein has been viewed as an international threat since the end of the first Gulf War. As a condition of Iraq's surrender, Saddam Hussein was forced to destroy all biological, chemical, and nuclear programs, and allow UN in...

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... their utmost conquest and control. Another great aggression of weaker states was that of Germany, Italy and Japan, which led to the Second World War. Now, we have the case of the United States and Britain waging an all-out war against Iraq. These things bring us to the following questions: is there morality in all these wars of aggression? Did these powerful ... 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 these superpower...

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