... front of the set for the prime-time, prime-profit advertisements that are to be wedged apart by programs for the next two or three hours'.1 - Setting In most news bulletins the newsreader is seated behind a desk. So there is no much body language to distract the viewer. - Structure/ narrative News is cast like a narrative. There are protogonist, antoganists, heroes, villains and there ... is a begin, a middle and an end. The ordering and duration per item shows the importance for the newsmakers. So in the news there is a sort of hierarchy. Reception In means of reception I am interested...

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... ground 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 was achieved and the NATO forces were able to attack the Serbian targets at will. This was very much in line with Douhet's theory that air power alone could win ... from http://es.rice.edu/projects/Poli378/Gulf/index.html 7. Ibid. 8. Hallion, Richard P., Storm Over Iraq: Airpower and the Gulf War. Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992, pg 153. 9. http://www.csis.org/kosovo/Lessons.html. Lessons a...

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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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... 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 ... countries did not have standing armies or plan on supporting the war from a military side. Without UN support but with the new Coalition of the willing President Bush started publically making demands to ...

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... 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 destroyer." (Desperate Hours.) The attack almost cut the Cole in half, spraying fuel oil all over the deck. After long ... 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...

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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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... 't 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 ... far-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" d...

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... within itself, it simply fits together like gears. For example, the Kurds have language. They use language to communicate with their family. The values and beliefs of the culture are never contradicted in the society either. The Kurds are located in a large area spread across the Middle East that is often ... state as it was reclaimed by the countries that they took it from, leaving them without a self-ruled state. This forced them out of the metropolitan areas and into the mountains. They were forced to acculturate to the cultures that they were in. this affected them because they were ...

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... needs to be borne in mind. This one can be found pinned in many a corner shop. It advises customers against asking for credit, because "a refusal often offends-. In much of the world, and even among some Americans, indignation is growing at George Bush's slow but remorseless preparations to remove Saddam Hussein by military force. No step the complainers say, could be better ... calculated to offend a billion of Muslims and confirm fears that after September 11th, the over-mighty superpower feels entitled to trample wantonly on an enemy, imagined or real. At the least, it is argued, Ame...

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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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... rule kicking off the 40 year war that ended leaving up to 200,000 unarmed civilians murdered, the abduction and torture of tens of thousands and the forced displacement of more than a million people. Some of the grossest human rights violations ever committed were committed under this regime that received $80-$90 million dollars from the U.S. government within the first few years after the coup. ... , 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...

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... However, 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 as ... periphery is the main actor in destabilizing the democratic process in these nations. Uneducated workers exhausted from hard cheap labor barely have the energy to attem...

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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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... its legitimacy will also lose its power." Seven days later President Bush asked Congress for the authority to use U.S. Armed Forces, to depose the Iraqi President and his regime, and to disarm the country of all weapons of mass destruction. Five days after President Bush's speech before the U.N. Iraq's Foreign Affairs Minister wrote to Kofi Annan informing him that Iraq had agreed to ... The President, seeing another stall tactic in the making asked the U.S. Congress for authority to use all means necessary, including the use of the Armed Forces to "depose the Iraqi regime of Saddam Huss...

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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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... complex it took place in. 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 ... many other events that shaped U.S. involvement in the Middle East. In 1970 during the civil war between Jordan and the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization), the United States and Israel prepare to join the side of Jordan if Syria backs the PLO. 1972, United States blocks th...

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... a map in the sand on live television that divulged too much information about his unit's location, volunteered' to leave Iraq. Pentagon officials say that they consider the embedding of journalists to be a success, and that there have been very few offenses such as Rivera's. Apparently then, the journalists' reports do not pose a threat to our troops. If one looks at the past ... conflicts the United States has been involved in one would not have to look far to find reasons to be skeptical of intelligence reports given by the government. Specifically, the Gulf of Tonkin and the Bay of P...

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... which would produce oil in Mesopotamia(now know as Iraq). A little while later the first world war broke out. Britain knew oil would be crucial and the Secretary of the British Cabinet , Sir Maurice Hankey stated: "Control of these oil suppliers becomes a first-class war aim." This statement was made as British troops attacked Baghdad. But what they did not realize was Britain ... Shah Pahlevi which resulted in a weak Iranian military, Iraq decided to reclaim the Shatt al Arab. By 1979, however, Saddam Hussein had clawed his way to the top of the ruling junta of Iraq and took advantage ...

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... was replaced, the Pentagon's exterior looked almost exactly as it did before the terrorist attack. The interior is being rebuilt with reinforced concrete 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 ... might appear that Wall Street has forgotten about terrorist threats because stocks are generally rebounding from the lows that followed the attacks, but the fear of future terrorism has held sto...

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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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... 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 security as concerning the "security of groups and individuals" compared to the "security of [the] state and territory" (Viotti and Kauppi 25). These differences show the variety of concepts of war. The United Nations was formed on ... Council so much that we wanted its words to have meaning. The global threat of proliferation of wea...

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... the Allied bombed lit the grounds with an eerie glow each times the hit the target. While Baghdad was being pounded, the Apache Helicopters hover over the deserts of Kuwait looking for bunkers and troops with advanced lasers. When they found their targets, the Apaches would blow them away with the powerful 30mm cannon or powerful rockets. To the north B-52s rained ... ineffective moves to try to prove to the other Arab countries that he can fight. On January 29 he ordered his several thousand troops to cross the border and take over the abandoned city of Kafji, Saudi Arabia. This move m...

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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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... 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 suppression of domestic dissent, Hussein has demonstrated no inhibitions against using all tools at his command against those who opposed his ambitions. This regime was building nuclear capability ... not for peaceful or defensive purpose, but to inflict horror upon any nation that opposed its regime. Saddam Hussein's history of aggression and brutality against Kuwait, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and minorities within ...

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