... sky and annihilated Iraqi communications, chemical plants, and nuclear research labs. The British Tornado jets swooped low over Iraqi airfields, destroying hangers and put huge holes in the runways to make them unusable. American warships in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea launched more than 100 Tomahawk cruise missiles, equipped with special computers that show detailed maps of Iraq and the distance the ... north B-52s rained terror on Saddam's elite Republican Guards and blew up their underground bunkers. "The United States and allies pounded Iraq with two waves of air strikes today. In ...

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... a few short years. The primary difference between the Yemenis and the Iraqis is that Yemen deposed its authoritarian government before a need arose for United Nations interference. In order for Iraq to undergo a successful political transformation to democracy, they must find this balance between regional/local political power and the power of the central Iraqi leadership. Another issue that is effecting the development of ... the Hussein government much like the Germans under Hitler, they had security and safety for their families. Freedom was no minor price to pay to keep families saf...

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... and biological warfare weapons he concealed during the UNSCOM inspection period." The Iraqi nuclear weapons program had progressed to the point where Saddam in the run-up to the Gulf War was able to order a crash project to produce enough fissionable material for at least one nuclear device to use against American forces if faced with his own demise. Although the Iraqi effort fortunately failed, it ... sanctions still would have been maintained. The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 sent a clear message to Saddam; we were not going to stop pressuring Iraq until he was gone. But yet he still r...

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... reporters determine if this information is credible?- and "Who was the source of this information and could that person(s) have any ulterior motives in making that information known to the public?-. Deciding on what to report and how to report it poses an ethical dilemma for journalists covering the war. One aspect of this is how journalists report on the casualties and if ... a picture on television. I also believe that pictures that are extremely graphic should, for the most part, probably not be shown. Again, I have chosen to use the Potter Box to evaluate the ethical dilemma surround...

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... and biological warfare weapons he concealed during the UNSCOM inspection period." The Iraqi nuclear weapons program had progressed to the point where Saddam in the run-up to the Gulf War was able to order a crash project to produce enough fissionable material for at least one nuclear device to use against American forces if faced with his own demise. Although the Iraqi effort fortunately failed, it ... sanctions still would have been maintained. The Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 sent a clear message to Saddam; we were not going to stop pressuring Iraq until he was gone. But yet he still r...

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... speaking the language of the place that they are in and the Kurdish language. They have assimilated to the culture of other places. For example in Turkey, it was illegal until the early 1990's to speak Kurdish anywhere except your house, even now it is strictly monitored and not able to be on the news or taught in schools. This culture has been largely affected by external ... 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 br...

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... Afghanistan The afghan war, which was from 1978-92, was a conflict between anti-Communist Muslim guerrillas and the Afghan government and Soviet Union. The coup, which occurred in 1979, brought Hafizullah Amin to power which brought aboutfierce reatalliation by the USSR, who then installed Babrak Karmal as president. The Soviet invasion, which sparked Afghan resistance initially involved an estimated 30,000 ... 24 casualties (9 by U.S. fire) and 10 wounded. After the gulf war, military analysts believed that over 100,000 Iraqi soldiers died, while another 300,000 were wounded. According ...

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... economy will help Bush's re-election chances. Challenges for Bush in 2004IT WILL not be an exaggeration to suggest that the diplomatic challenges that US President George W Bush is facing in 2004 are overwhelming. The way the White House deals with them will not only help establish America's position in the world and its chances of winning the war on terrorism, ... on a range of international issues, from North Korea to steel tariffs, there is a greater sense of realism in the White House on both global security and economics. Mr Bush and his aides now seem to want to modify the unilate...

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... espionage against Nixon's political opponents. About a year later in 1973 the testimony of the White House aide Alexander Butterfield uncovered the entire investigation. On national television Butterfield told the world that Nixon had ordered a video recording system to be installed in the White House to record all conversations. Nixon refused to release the tapes; he said they were vital to national security. The U.S. District Court Judge ruled that ... Nixon must release the tapes to allow for further investigation. In 1974 Nixon released edited transcripts of the White House tapes. T...

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... major resolutions giving the President of the United States in essence a blank check in which to use as he saw fit. The first resolution was passed August 10, 1964 and is known as the Gulf of Tonkin resolution (H.J. RES. 1145). The second resolution was passed on October 10, 2002 and is known as the House Joint Resolution Authorizing Use of Force against Iraq (H.J. RES ... for vote. The resolution passed with only two nays; one from Senator Morse, and the second from Senator Ernest Gruening, who considered the resolution a "blank check" for a war any where in Southeast Asia. The House o...

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... was also on the ideals that make us a Nation. Our deepest national conviction is that every life is precious, because every life is the gift of a Creator who intended us to live in liberty and equality. More than anything else, this separates us from the enemy we fight. We value every life-. A Decade of Deception and Defiance serves as a background paper for ... continually violated 16 United Nations Security Council resolutions over the past decade. "This document is not designed to catalogue all of the violations of UN resolutions or other abuses of Saddam Hussein's regime over the ye...

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... 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 ... ("How the UN"). Presently there are on hundred ninety one members of the United Nations that develop, monitor and are party to proposed resolutions. In the case of Iraq, who joined the United Nations on December 21, 1945, concurring powers agree that the nation has breached .....

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... Mitchell advocated that different aircraft types were necessary for different types of mission. An innovative Mitchell felt that there should be troop-carrying aircraft, long-range bombers, and even in his time, he encouraged the development of ski-equipped aircraft, bombsights for more accurate bomb delivery, engine superchargers and aerial torpedoes. If Mitchell had lived longer, technologies ... leadership never recovered. The air campaign, at the war's onset, had successfully stopped most of the Iraqi logistics support and ground movement in selected areas. The early attainment of ai...

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... suspected terrorist crashed a commercial airliner into the side of the building. Firefighters tried to battle the flames from this crash on September 11. The building was evacuated, as were other federal buildings in the Capitol, including the White House. The Pentagon's workday population is about 24,000. The Pentagon, headquarters of the ... and other safety and security measures that will make it stronger and more modern than the rest of the building. The Pentagon cost $50 million to build in the early 1940s. The total renovation cost now, including rebuilding the damaged area a second...

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... 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 has access to the lives of people all over the world. Real-Time news services mean that we can find ... President even more, for why is he bent on pursuing an axis "member" that probably does not possess nuclear weapons in preference to one that does? The sudden attention paid by America to the current Iraqi situation oozes further hypocrisy, further emphasising that any campaign would not be worth the ...

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... but they were not as eager to commit military force, to risk their youth in battle and to pay for the costs of the war. Critics of President Bush continued to maintain that he was taking advantage of the issue of energy supplies in order to manipulate the U. S. public opinion in favor of war. After consulting ... 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 Iraq did not withdraw from Kuwait ...

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... time or when there is a Royal event happening. What's news? As Fiske points out, 'the basic definition of news as factual information that its viewers need in order to be able to participate in their society gives us only half the story' . Of course every news bulletin is produced by a company. Some companies are commercially focused others are public owned by the state. Nevertheless ... 'the objective discourse of "the truth"'1. How do news bulletins construct reality? How can we analyze the news bulletins itself? Hartley3 has divided the methods in two groups. First, a paradigmatic ap...

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... leaders and representatives of different tribal, religious, and civil groups met with officials including Jay Garner, Head of the Pentagon's Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, and agreed to establish a democratic system in Iraq (ibid.). Finally, on the 1st of May President Bush declared all "major combat over" (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/iraq/war/campaign.html). So far ... justified or not requires the knowledge of things that are not always known (such as the attackers real intent) and it relies on perspective. To cope with this the Just War Doctrine ...

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... American People were promised a swift and small American war with Iraq. Then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told the American people military action in Iraq would be swift and not require a full U.S mobilization.1 While speaking in Italy in hopes to gain support for the War Donald Rumsfeld said the war could last only six days or six weeks and he highly doubted the war ... Iraq War was the 9/11 terrorists attacks. On September 11th 2001 hijackers flew American jet planes into the World Trade Center Tower in New York. President Bush used the anger in America from these attacks to c...

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... people and his neighbors for over two decades. Under Saddam's regime many hundreds of thousands of people have died as a result of his actions. According to a 2001 amnesty international report., "victims of torture in Iraq are subjected to a wide range of forms of torture, including the gouging out of eyes, severe beatings and electric shocks. Some victims have died as a result and many ... chemical and biological weapons, and from Iraqi defectors, they know Saddam has several mobile biological weapons labs, but he refuses to take account for them. In turn the United Nations Security Co...

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... for lower waged workers through geographic expansion by means of economic superiority and political manipulation often involving military force (Tabb 25). The reduction of cost due to cheaper labor and an increase in the speed of communication and transportation has continually deepened this process (Tabb 13). Historically, international flows of capital and commodity trade have taken three routes, ... were more capable of exercising their interests of low tax land and cheap labor. This was not the case in Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea where the U.S. was forced to address social issues...

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... of Iraq. U.S. and coalition troops, confronted a regime that harbored ambitions for regional domination, hid weapons of mass destruction, and provided safe-haven and supported terrorists. Regime change in Iraq offered the opportunity to attack radical Islamism at its roots: the dismal prevalence of political repression and economic stagnation throughout the Muslim world. The establishment of a reasonably liberal and democratic Iraq could ... destruction of two thousands villages. Saddam ordered the use of chemical weapons on his own Kurdish population during a 1987-88 campaign of repress...

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... revolts among the ethnic minorities as well as a continuing struggle between Westernized intellectuals, liberals and clerical forces. The result was the establishment of an Islamic constitution that was to be vested in the Khomeini (religious leader). • Major events that occurred during the new religious system: the death of the Shah (7/4/79), Iranian militants seized the US embassy (4/11 ... under the sovereignty of Iran. • The third is that Iran's strategic interests dictate possession of the three islands, so that Iran may be able to safeguard its security in the Gulf. The argumen...

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... shah was anti-socialist and pro-Western. The Iraqi leadership became more of an issue after the Iranian revolution, when Ayatollah Khomeini, who had spent part of his exile in Iraq, encourages colleagues to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Khomeini decided on this because he thought Hussein government was anti-Islamic. But Iran was the weakest out of the two. With the revolution coming ... out the coalition and over take them one by one. But this did not happen. Meanwhile, the American homeland was uneasy about supporting a war in which they did not need to be involved in. But President George...

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