... in the Gulf, which makes it a very important location. Even though Iran is not an Arabic speaking country, it is a major part of the Middle East and has a broad and an ongoing civilization. Sources: - N.R. Keddi, Religion and Politics in Iran (1983) - www.mesteel.com/countries/iran/index.html. - www.encyclopedia.com - US Department of State official website - Elton L.Daniel, The History of Iran Nov ... - www.cia.gov Iran; Pre-Revolution The Iranian Revolution is one of the major socio-political upheavals in recent history. The transformation of the state from a secular and nationalist m...

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... future government of Iraq is run. Ramsay (2005) also discusses the current state of civil war between the various factions of Iraqi society, and the growing influence of insurgent groups and terrorists in Iraq. This creates a problem for the new Democratic government of Iraq because if they cannot either find a way for all of these differing groups to reach an agreement, or find ... hear from someone else is simple not the same as having the experience of living in a democratic society. Many have compared the situation in Iraq to that of Germany and Japan after World War II however, Bel...

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... 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 ... consumer goods to Iraq under the UN oil-for-food program, get contracts to sell oil on the world market, and take part in rebuilding the country's oil production facilities and electric power station. Last,...

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... elite I mean the people who live in the public eye, like queens, pop stars, actors, and politicians. - Genre, the news assumes that our society is fragmented in different areas: politics, economy, sport, foreign affairs, domestic news, etc. - Logistic concerns: availability of personnel, sources and budget. - Regency, people like to see tv-news as up to minute because the access is ... what are usually called scripts]; • cause-and-effect sequences - here the event is linked to likely causes and consequences (predictable events are either incorporated into existing schemata or discarded...

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... taught in schools. This culture has been largely affected by external change. There have been new inventions and diffusion of other cultures and that results in more words being created and used increasing the lexicon, also external change has been from the way the Kurds are oppressed, giving them a new world view. A dialect forms from an array of factors but mostly from natural barriers like mountains ... and deserts. A dialect is a form of a language that is unique to that particular area or region. This applies to the Kurds because there are two dialects of Kurdish, The ... be elabo...

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... marking the start of the armed conflict known as Operation Iraqi Freedom. The war began in direct response to the September 11, 2001 (9/11) terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the newly found War on Terror. President George W. Bush declared the War on Terror after the 9/11 attacks in effort to block terrorist groups worldwide. The United Sates ... Bush was still able to gain support for war by the majority of the American people and Congress3. President Bush's first rationale for the Iraq War was the 9/11 terrorists attacks. On September 11th 2001 hijackers flew ...

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... the United Nations has not maintained security for one nation, let alone all the nations it's "protecting." This pluralist perspective is: An image of world politics that emphasizes that multiplicity of international actors-states, international organizations, and transnational organizations-challenging the realist preoccupation with the state. Pluralist do not view the state as a unitary, rational actor, but rather as a battleground for ... . This shows how the realist perspective has to now enforce the diplomacy documents made by the pluralist United Nations. As the United Nations Secu...

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... also died in the war or are missing in action. Australia lost almost 500 of the 47,000 troops they had deployed to Vietnam and New Zealand lost 38 soldiers. It is also difficult to say exactly what counts as a "Vietnam War casualty"; people are still being killed ... UN troops left Somalia in March 1995. 1993 World Trade Center Bombings On Friday, February 26, 1993 at 12.18 p.m. the World Trade Center complex in New York was rocked by an explosion which killed six people and injured more than thousand. The New York City Fire Department received the first alarm at ... fire. Casualties were...

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... international corporations brought the beginning of a new era of economic expansion. After World War II, 3 institutions were created in an effort to promote democracy or rather capitalism and globalization. These institutions inspired international corporations and financial giants consisted of the World Trade Organization (WTO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank. The primary function of these organizations ... educate themselves on the matter creating some hope of domestic reform and opposition. There are six facts that the general public must realize in order t...

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... to catch Iraqis 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 of mass destruction programs. But as time wore on, Iraq's intelligence services became increasingly aware and proficient at keeping the inspectors as contained as "fireflies in a bottle." But how could they hide from the ... sent a clear message to Saddam; we were not going to stop pressuring Iraq until he was gone. But yet he still remained in power and still remained a threat to the Iraqi peop...

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... Storm began with air attacks on Iraq that lasted a month. In February, in a fast moving campaign lasting only one hundred hours, Iraqi forces were routed and driven from Kuwait. The first Gulf War was unjust. The world community united to expel a foreign army from a sovereign nation. The war was a complete rout of Iraq's forces. After exactly one hundred hours of ground combat ... authority we have every right. Iraq has violated the terms of an agreed cease-fire. Additionally, Saddam Hussein presents a clear and present danger to the security of the United States, and the world. Saddam ...

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... the Democratic hopefuls for president have endorsed such demands, and want new protection for workers and the environment included in any new trade deals. Mr Bush has been steering a difficult course, agreeing to trade sanctions against steel and textiles imports while maintaining his position in favour of free trade. However, neither of the major world trade negotiations he has endorsed - the Doha round ... policies were marked by growing readiness to accommodate protectionists at home - a trend that was partly responsible for the collapse of the World Trade Organization (WTO) summit in...

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... . President Johnson viewed the war in Vietnam as an extension of the Cold War and felt it was necessary to defend South Vietnam from communism. "Communists, using force and intrigue, seek a communist-dominated world," said President Johnson in an April 1964 Speech. In May President Johnson was presented with a new plan of action by his Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara. The plan called for increased ... U.S. involvement in South Vietnam in the way of air strikes and combat troops. Johnson made it clear that any action ... allow the return of U.N. weapon inspectors without conditions....

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... that Kuwait had been part of the Ottoman province of Basra, a city in the south of Iraq. However, the Ottoman province collapsed after World War I and today's Iraqi borders were not created until then. There was also a further and more obvious blunder in a bid to justify this illegal invasion. Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, had namely recognized Kuwaiti independence in 1963. ... , Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Honduras, Italy, Kuwait, Morocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qata...

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... a big U.S. military presence. An Allied Control Commission, consisting of representatives of Iraq's liberators, America, Britain, and free Iraqis that should arrest Saddam's criminal henchman, establish just courts, and provide for local elections to a convention that would propose the structure of a new Iraqi state. Once elections for that government are held, the interim government should depart. The interim government will distribute ... who are hostile to a democratic Iraq. The U.S. will also manage Iraq's oil fields, rebuild, and modernized the oil fields so they can provide the ne...

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... how serious the United States really was with its new policies of preemptive action. By the end of the 90s the United States had experienced several different terrorist attacks on its embassies and attacks on its own soil. In 1993, a Palestinian terrorist cell that was running out of New Jersey attacked the World Trade Center in New York City. This set the stage for future ... attacks and introduced Americans to the terror that had been taking place around the ... world for many years. The United States government acted quickly and knew that they had to identify and capture the culprit...

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... the government to serve some agenda, or, often to the dismay of government officials, can be leaked without their knowledge. For example, on November 10, 2002, the Washington Post and the New York Times both ran similar stories that detailed the Bush administration's plans for war with Iraq. Gloria Cooper explains that the war plan "bore the unmistakable watermarks of a Pentagon leak ... ."" Cooper favored the Post piece by Thomas E. Ricks because it "took a valuable extra step: it explained the strategic benefit' of the leak itself (informing the Arab world of U.S. determination to ... ...

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... countries want to control Iraqi oil? How far will they go? What events has Iraq gone through to try and keep their oil nationalized? During the World War I era, many major powers viewed controlling oil fields as a crucial military asset, due to many new vehicles(ships, tanks, cars, trucks, planes, etc.) which relied on the use of oil to operate. These major powers ... also knew that oil would become very popular outside the war community and would become a fundamental aspect in the economic strengthening ... States had significant interests in making certain that Saudi Arabia was not c...

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... potential of a terrorist attack. Incidents have occurs in cities of all sizes, as well as in rural America. There were incidents in New York (LaGuardia Airport, and World Trade Center), Georgia (1996 Olympics), Oklahoma City (Oklahoma City Federal Building), and in Alabama (New Women Abortion Clinic). Because of the global concern about terrorism, the U.S. war on terrorism is justified. Terrorism kills innocent people, hurts the ... population is about 24,000. The Pentagon, headquarters of the Department of Defense, is one of the world's largest office buildings. It is twice the size of...

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... to catch Iraqis 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 of mass destruction programs. But as time wore on, Iraq's intelligence services became increasingly aware and proficient at keeping the inspectors as contained as "fireflies in a bottle." But how could they hide from the ... sent a clear message to Saddam; we were not going to stop pressuring Iraq until he was gone. But yet he still remained in power and still remained a threat to the Iraqi peop...

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... 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" doesn't matter, for people will ... continue to watch on CNN. Some question what gives the west, in particular America, the right to "police" the rest of the world and to attempt to control governments in other far-off countries. If indeed Saddam has the weapons that America claims he does, then the weapons ......

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... making a faithful reconstruction of the Decision making process before this war almost impossible. Oil for instance is a very popular alternative motive (Kinsley, March 10,2003) and taking that into consideration as the least important goal, possible alternatives to the war for the U.S. can be identified. There are six different methods of control; persuasion ... leaders have chosen to disclose. Some of the rumors about what Americas real aims are include avenging President Bushs" father, taking over the world, and oil (Kinsley, March 10, 2003). It is fair to say that when President Bus...

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... . In 1930, Mitchell wrote: The advent of air power that can go to the vital centers of gravity and entirely neutralize or destroy them has put a completely new complexion on the old systems of war. It is now realized that the hostile main army in the field is ... a false objective and the real objectives are the vital centers. The old theory that victory meant the destruction ... types with different configurations, each accomplishing its own mission. For future wars, although certain advanced aircraft type could fulfill more than one role (e.g. sweep and strike concurrently), it is unl...

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... captured in the first hours of the invasion. The rest were destroyed by the Iraqi forces. Many countries around the world did not approve of the invasion and were angered. The U.S. was especially mad. President George Bush called the invasion a "naked aggression" and ordered economic sanctions against Iraq. He froze 20,000,000,000 dollars that were in American banks. He also persuaded ... he sent Secretary of State James Baker to meet with Trarik Aziz on January 9, 1991 in Geneva, Switzerland. The meeting was about to take place and the world was watching as Baker and Aziz talked. After...

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