... newsreaders always directly address to the viewer. Hartley notes in this context that: "the conventionalized distinction between P.O.V. shots and neutral shots do not stand up to close inspection. All shots have a point of view, whether...by the placing of a character, or...by the positioning of the imaginary observer (viewer)...the news...constructs an imaginary viewer, positioned as it were behind the camera. - Editing ... metaphors to use, you can bring a story as drama, as entertainment or as war. Within the news language there is also a lot of stereotyping. Why the use of "terroris...

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... that have challenged us, we have also seen the character that will deliver us. We have seen the greatness of America in airline who defied their hijackers and ran a plane into the ground to spare the lives of others. We've seen the greatness of America in rescuers who rushed up flights of stairs toward peril. And we continue to see the greatness America in the care ... a general Arab-Israeli conflagration. Next time you hear someone ask why, in a world full of bad men, it is Mr. Hussein is picked on, please bear all of the above in mind. He may very well be the worst. "And yet it is not...

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... , Saddam knew he had been defeated. In order to preserve his regime, he signed an unconditional surrender. We agreed not to overthrow Saddam Hussein, but in return, we imposed a long list of requirements on Iraq. For twelve years he has tried every trick in the book to fool the world, but there is no doubt that he failed to live up to ... vessels had been using a port on the south coast Yemen as a refueling base every month for the past Two years. "The blast claimed seventeen lives and wounded forty-two sailors of the vessels crew of 293 men and women, and crippled an Arleigh Burke-class...

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... the War on Terror effectively they could not guarantee the American peoples safety. The American people were quick to support a war that was seen as patriotic and an extension of the War on Terror. Talking heads and pundits ran with this idea, even suggesting those who oppose the war were un-American, weak, or somehow terrorist sympathizers. President Bush used American disdain for ... by the Bush Administration to give the false perception of international support. President Bush used the term the Coalition of the willing to refer to the 30 countries that would help support the war in ...

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... harness the potential to cause such a crippling conflict. However morally wrong this maybe, the fact remains that Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction was a risk Mr Bush and Mr Blair were not willing to take. The advances in technology in the 20th century have meant that the average citizen now ... -off". People will still continue to suffer whether the country is a neighbour or half way across the other side of the world, and it is still the duty of other countries to try and stop this persecution. When attempting to stop this misery inflicted by those in power, "far-off" doesn't ...

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... national coalition fought a successful military campaign to expel Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait. Although the Iraqi armed forces had extensive experience in warfare, the successful employment and integration of air power by the US and the multi-national coalition won the war. Joint Operations The decisive factor in the war with Iraq was the air campaign, but ground forces were necessary to ... froces were employed although there were growing prospects that NATO would pursue a ground option if its air power did not achieve decisive results. At the onset of war, command of the air wa...

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... full respect to their husband and the elders of the family. Kurds believe that the fathers or men of the household are the most superior. While the fathers work throughout the day the mothers have to take care of the children, clean up around the house, make breakfast, lunch and dinner etc. While the men of the family are working. This is a lot of stress and strain on Kurdish women ... . But, the fathers are responsible for teaching the boys of the family how to work and such. When the Kurds establish riles of descent they establish them through religion and ancestry. The Kurds honor and ...

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... their children with are the major issue. Another major roadblock to Iraq achieving true democracy has been the involvement of the United States and other nations in trying to determine the future of Iraq. Yes other countries should have a say over what happen in Iraq so that the crimes committed by ... from a historical perspective. The one major comparison 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, ....

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... Shatt Al-Arab (22/9/80). • Iran's government is intermingled with its economy, just like most of the Arab-Islamic countries. "Iran's economy is a mixture of central planning, state ownership of oil and other large enterprises, village agriculture and small-scale private trading and service ventures." (www.mestee.com/countries/iran/index.html) "Unemployment, a major problem even before the ... revolution, has many causes including population growth, the war with Iraq and shortages of raw materials and trained managers." (US Department of State) • The Islamic government is divided into...

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... not a terrible thing."" (Kurtz). Aly Colon, Diversity Program Director and member of the Ethics Committee at the Poynter Institute, presents a set of questions to help journalists decide what pictures of casualties to show, if any. His list is as follows: "1) What do you know for sure about ... are all that hot, President John F. Kennedy is said to have remarked. Some days I get more out of The New York Times.- (Gup). The current war with Iraq has also had its share of faulty intelligence. The ambiguities of intelligence information require interpretation and therefore invite mischief. ...

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... to use noncoercive diplomacy, as in the case of United Nations Security Council Resolution 660. As pluralists rely on discussions between international actors, one must realize that democracy at its greatest is being destroyed. As John Locke discusses in his Two Treatises of Government (1690), a representative government should represent the individual rights 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 ... the third time, the pluralist organization should r...

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... -World War I era. The United States moved into Iraq after it learned that more things could be found in Iraq than just oil. The United States found that American business men admired and accommodated themselves to the nationalism found in Iraq. Also the United States wanted to use Iraq as a missionary field to help Iraqi's find the faith. Along with the business ... men and missionaries, the United States sent archaeologists into Iraq to try and find many key things like oil. Since the United States never declared war upon the Ottoman Empire, it had not played a direct role in the ... S...

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... similarities between the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution and H.J. RES. 114, and show that Congress failed to keep history from repeating itself. The end results of the resolutions have to this day been different, but the powers granted to the President in the resolutions are very much the same. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: When President Johnson took office after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy the U.S. military had ... on his father while he was Kuwait. President Bush made mention of this while on the campaign trail as well as to the U.N. general assembly while making a case aga...

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... , as the world watched in amazement, the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over communism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over communism. The Democratic world rejoiced as its enemy was brought to its knees, thereby ending the Cold War which had hovered over these two superpowers since ... an Islamabad hotel in Pakistan on February 7, 1995 after receiving word that he was in Pakistan. He was planning to blow up seven commercial U.S. aircraft and after a botched att...

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... leading to the Gulf (Butt Internet). Saddam ordered his army to use chemical weapons against Iran as a symbol of damping their soul as dying a soldier's death (Makiya 287). In 1991, Saddam's henchmen targeted the home of U.S. Ambassador John Monjo to Indonesia by planting twenty-four sticks of dynamite in a flower box near where he ate breakfast. The plan failed, because the bomb was wired ... the action against Iraq but could not be seen to be involved in an alliance with Israel (Towle 185). In his offensive attacks against Iran, Kuwait, Israel, and the Kurds, and in his brutal suppress...

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... -Iraq relations before the war were rather complex. During the Cold War Iraq was closely tied to the Soviet Union but in 1980, following the end of the Cold War and the crumbling relations between the U.S. and Iran, the U.S. decided to back Iraq in a war against Iran, their former partners (Council on Foreign Affairs). The U.S.-Iraq relations fell apart when Iraq invaded Kuwait ... in August 1990, and in the winter of 1991 a U.N.-approved U.S.-led coalition drove Iraq out but did not eliminate Saddam Hussein from power (ibid.). Subsequent to the Gulf War the U.S. tried containment, but a...

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... , sometimes compromise was necessary especially in areas close to Soviet satellite nations. If these organizations could not appease these nations, there was always the threat of communist revolutions in Western Europe and Southeast China. However, in areas such as Latin America most resistance to democracy involved reformist rather than revolutionist. The international powerhouses, through the United States ... is the main actor in destabilizing the democratic process in these nations. Uneducated workers exhausted from hard cheap labor barely have the energy to attempt to unionize and w...

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... . Which at the time was the Democratic Party's campaign headquarters. This began with the wiretapping of Democratic headquarters. These acts engulfed President Richard Nixon and many of his supporters in many illegal acts. A burglary also took place on June 17, 1972 by five men who were caught in the offices of the Democratic Party's headquarters. They're acts were later linked to a White House sponsored ... plan of espionage against Nixon's political opponents. About a year later in 1973 the testimony of the White House aide Alexander ... other countries enforced their own sanctions on...

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... areas damaged by the terrorist attack will be completely restored by spring of 2003. More over, a simple bronze box and the memorabilia holding facts from the days and weeks after the September 11 attack on the Pentagon was entombed in the building's reconstructed facade as a permanent reminder of the men and women who died. The Pentagon is virtually a city in itself. Approximately 23,000 employees, contribute ... to the planning and execution of the defense of our country. These people arrive daily from Washington, D.C. and its suburbs over approximately 30 miles of access highways, in...

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... . He also took over the vast quantities of oil. For months, heads of state and diplomats from many countries tried to persuade Saddam to remove his troops from Kuwait and leave the country peacefully. His stubbornness convinced the United States and the United Nations to use military force against Saddam and his men. On January 16, 1991 United States and other United Nation coalition forces destroyed Iraq's industrial ... and war making facilities, crushed the Iraqi army, and liberated Kuwait in just forty-three days. In the darkness of Thursday, August 2, 1990, about 100,000 Iraqi troop...

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... to sell oil for the purchase of goods essential for the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people. At this point the UN and US national security objectives for Iraq were limitation of proliferation, reduction of weapons of mass destruction, containment, the removal of Saddam Hussein, regional stability, and sustainable international and domestic support. Clearly Saddam and his regime were not in compliance with ... off guard. They would occasionally uncover Iraqi inconsistencies in many documents. These occurrences gave the world glimpses of the scope and sophistication of the Iraqi weapons...

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... in the spring, foretelling a sharp economic slowdown later that year. The Fed, led by Alan Greenspan, slashed interest rates. But the economy failed to pick up and was in recession before the devastating terrorist attacks of September 11th 2001. Its health took another knock in December when Enron's collapse shook investor confidence. Yet once again America's economy defied the pessimists. On the ... a record $500bn, there have been increasing calls for more protectionist measures - particularly against China, which alone accounts for more than a quarter of the trade gap. Many of the De...

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... light, defensive weaponry. On November 8, 1990 President Bush announced a military buildup to provide an offensive option, "Operation Desert Storm," to force Iraq out of Kuwait. The preparation of the operation took two and a half months and it involved a massive air- and sea lift. Finally, in January 1991, the U. S. Congress voted to support Security Council resolution 660. It authorized using "all necessary means" if ... more than Iraq's 800 aircraft. Most Arab observers thought Hussein would not last more than six months. Lieutenant General Khalid bin Sultan, the commander of the Arab...

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... to sell oil for the purchase of goods essential for the humanitarian needs of the Iraqi people. At this point the UN and US national security objectives for Iraq were limitation of proliferation, reduction of weapons of mass destruction, containment, the removal of Saddam Hussein, regional stability, and sustainable international and domestic support. Clearly Saddam and his regime were not in compliance with ... off guard. They would occasionally uncover Iraqi inconsistencies in many documents. These occurrences gave the world glimpses of the scope and sophistication of the Iraqi weapons...

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