... selecting and ranking the goals, identifying any alternatives, predicting the possible outcomes, evaluating the alternatives, and finally choosing an alternative (Hirshberg,). The obvious problem for America is that Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction pose a threat to its neighbors and to the U.S.. Iraq, being a dictatorship and having a history ... may have caused Iraq to disarm, it still would not have removed Saddam from power or turned Iraq into a democracy. The U.S. seemed prepared to, for the time being, forego these aims in order to achieve the most important one. Th...

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... Saddam Hussein was a sponsor of terrorism and developed weapons of mass destruction. He was a threat to both America and Israel, and indeed to stability in the Middle East. By overthrowing Hussein and 2 replacing him with a democratic, pro-American leadership, the U.S. will gain a valuable ally in the Middle East and, perhaps best of all; will liberate the oppressed people of Iraq. U.S. and coalition ... of the president. Saddam tortured and even killed any opponents of the regime (Butt Internet). 11 The political leadership of Iraq restrained freedom and democracy, jailed those who ha...

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... led coalition. Iraqi militia then attempted to assassinate George Bush Snr. in 1993. In 1997, he expelled weapons inspectors, and then rejected a proposal in 2000 to send the inspectors back in. In 2002, he finally accepted the weapons inspectors back in, yet Britain and America still claimed he was "playing games" with them, and not ... a degree that when the regime used a deadly mixture of chemical weapons on its" own Kurdish towns due to their occupation by Iranian forces, America was prepared to look the other way. They even supplied the Iraqi regime with arms to ensure the defeat o...

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