... all on the list of countries that own nuclear weapons. So why is the U.S. putting its focus solely on Iraq? Considering the U.S. government supports dictatorial monarchies like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait? They sends $15 million a day to Israel while that government has invaded Lebanon, occupied the Palestinian territories and created a large, illegal arsenal of nuclear weapons. (http://www.palestinefacts ... U.S. and United Nations possess huge numbers of nuclear weapons, they also both signed first strike policies against terrorism and abuse of power. When we hear our U.S. government insis...

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... that we have followed for more than two hundred years would vanish. The reasons why we should not have invaded Iraq are because there is no proof involving the Iraqi government with the Al Qaeda terrorists, we had no proof of Iraqi government having nuclear weapons, and other countries in the U.N. had major disagreements on the invasion. Many people are against the whole ... to convince the United Nations and had no proof with Iraqi's involvement in the September 11 attack. The first reason why we should not have invaded Iraq is because there is no proof involving the Iraqi government w...

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... son never coming home puts a great deal of stress and worry on a person. People are increasingly losing loved ones, but the government insists on sending more troops to Iraq. President Bush signed a bill passed by Congress for funds to secure Iraq and rebuild Afghanistan after touting a new policy to spread democracy through the Middle East. Many people agree with this attempt to scatter ... life of American service people as well as Iraqi civilians. For these reasons, an attack on Iraq would make Americans less, not more, secure. As a result of the war and the conflicts with Iraq, the ...

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... 9/11 terrorists but this idea has not been proven. This claim that this attack is part of a campaign against terrorism demonstrates that our government are totally failing to recognize the root causes of terrorism. No evidence linking Iraq to Al-Qaeda has been found, and allies within the Middle East are totally opposed to any military strike. Such an attack on a Middle ... Eastern Muslim-based nation would simply serve to promote anti-US judgements, thus providing a basis for die-hard nationalism on which terrorism is founded. The government of Iraq, to all of our knowledge has no dire...

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... Al-Qaeda, Saddam Hussein was committing crimes against his own people. People were being killed and terrorised in the name of "government intervention." President Bush, along with the world, knew that Saddam Hussein had used chemical and biological weapons against his own people ... of seemingly giving everything up, the Germans got a new form of government established. Their previously existing monarchy was destroyed. The same story happened to unfold when the United States finished operations in Iraq. One of Bush's goals in Iraq was to rid of Saddam Hussein, and establish a stable and...

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... should the U.S. do now? Prior to the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the U.S. promised a speedy transition to a democratic government for the country. The initial plan included the creation of an Iraqi constitution, and the active role of the Iraqi people in the process of establishing a new government and law enforcement. United States officials public announcements have emphasized that the U.S. invasion was not ... occupation, but about liberation. Before the invasion and until May 2003, U.S. officials stressed that an Iraqi-led government would be established "as soon as possible". H...

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I would like to offer an alternative viewpoint here, without diverging too much into the rationale behind the US government position on Iraq. I ask anyone who considers attending an anti-war demonstration, in the interests of fair-mindedness, to please ruminate on it ... the Gulf War. Given the fact that America has been quite forthright in the position that anyone who wishes to have a place in the new government of Iraq will not fight us, and Saddam's complete lack of loyalty, his infrastructure will dissipate almost instantaneously. Civilian casualties are an unfortunate association with wa...

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... oil. Was the Bush administration's push for war with Iraq motivated by their desire to gain control of Iraq's oil reserves? The toppling of Saddam Hussein's Government will provoke regime change to a pro U.S government, which will permit the privatisation of Iraq's state controlled oil resources. This will then give U.S oil firms access to Iraq's oil resources. Under the former Iraqi regime the big U.S ... oil firms were barred from Iraq by U.N sanctions. Preventing them from tapping ... lifted. It becomes understandable why these governments didn't want to go to war with Iraq, as a cha...

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... The Mexican War/The War Against Iraq The Mexican war between the U.S. and Mexico was started because of a Mexican attack on American troops along the southern border of Texas on April 25, 1846. After Winfield Scott occupied Mexico City on September 14,1847, a few months later a peace treaty was signed between Mexico and the U.S. A dictatorial Centralist government in Mexico began the war because ... that the U.S. brought on the war by annexing Texas and, just to make Mexico angry, by stationing an army at the mouth of the Rio Grande. During the war Mexico's government was very unstable b...

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... Sumerian culture. After the fall of the Sumerian culture, many different empires invaded and "ruled" Mesopotamia. Formerly part of the Ottoman Empire, modern day Iraq is a country of many diverse ethnicities, religions, and beliefs. Seventy-nine percent of all Iraqi people are Arabic, sixteen percent are Kurdish, three ... The GDP real growth rate is thirteen percent, and the GDP per capita purchasing power parity is twenty-seven hundred dollars. The currency that Iraq uses is called the Iraqi dinar. One Iraqi dinar equals 0.3109 of the United States dollar. The black market rate of the ...

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... , and the Vietnam War that was the case. It started because France and Vietnam's leader, Ho Chi Minh, had a difference in opinion about the type of government Vietnam should have. In the1750's is where the French started the whole thing with Vietnam. For years and years the people of Vietnam protested but could not get ... lack of support for the war in America, and the lack of fighting ability coming from the poor command of the Army's resources. Iraq became an independent kingdom in 1933 and proclaimed a republic in 1958, the country has been ruled by various people and military men si...

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World's View on Iraq The United States government has made it perfectly clear that military action in the very near future is needed against Saddam Hussein and Iraq for weapons violations. However, the rest of the world and its leaders do not all agree with President Bush and the United States. Britain is the United States number one ... army's single armored division from its bases in Germany. This would make up part of a large ground force for an attack on Iraq, along with four or five American divisions. Although the United States is backed by the British government, they are experiencing...

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... countless innocent people. Now the new government in Afghanistan is virtually a puppet whose strings are in the hands of America and which feels pride in obeying and pleasing the White House. After Afghanistan, the very next target of America was Iraq. America accused Iraq of having deadly chemical and biological weapons that can cause a wholesale death in the world. Perhaps the forgetful America ... help and favour it. But all Iraqis stood as a single nation to defend their motherland. And America once again hit Iraq as violently as she did in Afghanistan. There was inestimable loss of...

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... " printed in the Thursday, November 14th, 2002 Lincoln Journal Star. The article speaks poorly of Iraq and Hussein's administration, strongly implying that Iraq is not to be trusted and is lying to the U.N. about possessing weapons of mass destruction. Iraq's U.N. Ambassador Mohammed Al-Douri is quoted saying "his government has chosen "the path of peace" it's acceptance had "no condition, no reservations."" But ... Iraq Foreign Minister Nagi Sabri threatens, "the lies of the American administration and the British government will be exposed." "With war looming, it is up to them ... to ...

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... of these nations also looks at the United States and either condemns its actions or commends it. As far as the United States government is concerned, the war that is going on in Iraq can be entirely justified. We feel as though Saddam Hussein is a ruthless leader who needs to be removed from power. He ... streets, unable to breath. Also, Saddam has been known to outwardly commend Osama Bin Laden for his work on September 11. Finally, the US government feels that we should strike before we"re struck again. Why wait for another attack? This preemptive action is the reason we are now over se...

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... and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc.. The main purpose of this paper is to show how subtle propaganda affected American media in relation to the War in Iraq and served to change the opinions of the population. In order to justify the war ... States invaded "to assist the Iraqi people," only 1 percent believed it was to establish democracy, while about half thought it was "to rob Iraq's oil." Negligent of the clear facts, the Bush Administration refused to acknowledge that oil played as a factor in the Iraqi military invasion. Instead of ......

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... Kurds", the very people they bombed around a decade ago, with weapons and technology to fight against the terrorist organization. This however, is a lie. After Iraq was forced out of Kuwait in 1991, Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi government agreed to a series of commitments, termed Resolutions by the U.N. Security Council. One of these commitments (Resolution 687) was to "renounce all involvement with terrorism ... , and permit no terrorist organization to operate in Iraq." According to President Bush, "It broke this promise," he goes on " Iraq's government openly praised the attacks of Sep...

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... to mount a coup and to foster an internal rebellion, but both have failed. They remain possibilities but the repression currently taking place in Iraq makes a coup difficult and a rebellion almost suicidal. Another option is a military attack known as an "inside out" strike by pinpoint weapons ... that it would be a very wise decision for the United Nations to impose the strictest and strongest regulations and requirements that the Iraqi government must comply with. I would also suggest that the inspectors should not permit any deviation or the bypassing of any necessary inspection. If ...

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... country would help keep each other in line with everyone else. This was a way that everyone could check and balance each another. However, going to war with Iraq without the support of the United Nations said that the United States will do whatever it wants on its own no matter if they had the consent of the others ... will feel like all of the rich land and other money making commodities is theirs. This is also why the United States should hand over the governance of Iraq to the United Nations. This way the war would at least have some legitimacy. It does not look good if only one natio...

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... war, under wich the United States is to be the sole judge of the douctrine's legitimacy and application. Thus, the war is about more than Iraq; it is about the character of our society and the international order in wich we live." (The Nation, 3) According to Mark Phythian, all of ... with weapponerary. It has been well documented that Hussein used mustard gas and nerve gas in 1988 to kill thousands of Kurds living in Iraq. If he was willing to use weapons of mass destruction on his own citizens, we can be reasonably certain that Saddam would not hesitate ... . Iraq sits on 120 billion b...

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... use weapons of mass destruction on his own people, then he would have no problem using it on his enemies. That is what the United States government wants you to think, but there hasn't really been any evidence reported that Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. Spokespeople for the President Bush, such ... did the government just make it up so they could attack Hussein? I really want to know because their have been speculations that President Bush only wanted to attack Hussein because Hussein tried to kill Bush Sr. years ago. Also since Bush Sr. didn't have any luck with drivin...

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... regardless of the will of the United Nations. There were many other reasons why people believed this invasion was wrong. Many people suspected that Iraq's oil was one of the main motives of going to war and did not think it was worth the consequences. Casualties of Iraqi civilians ... States would be forcing democracy on the Iraqi citizens when it should in fact be their right to choose their own political leadership. The War in Iraq lasted nearly one and a half months, with Bush declaring an official victory on May 1 of the same year. In his victory speech Bush ... stated that the ous...

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... and prove our cause just. This article kind of makes me think of a possible conspiracy to just give The United States an excuse to go into Iraq and take Saddam out of power in order to get control of his oil. If we get control of his oil we would rule the oil industry ... are winning. Being in a war that we are winning gives us Americans a sense of pride and overall good feeling to being an American. America over in Iraq is not only stopping terrorism on the home front but also stopping it overseas also. When we took Saddam out of power we got rid of a dictator ... and are in a process ...

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... is very common in post-war reconstruction of any country. This was true in post-war Germany and is currently being performed in post-war Iraq. The suicide of Adolf Hitler and the surrender of Germany in Berlin marked the much anticipated and celebrated finish of World War 2 in Europe ... country after the fall of Saddam Hussein and the War on Terrorism. Currently many American soldiers occupy Iraq in order to maintain the peace there. There are efforts being made to establish a new government and even attempts to write a constitution for the country. The streets of Baghdad, Basra and Mo...

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... they can get their gas and other stuff real cheap with the embargo in place their the only ones getting stuff. but now we're going to war with Iraq they are having all these peace marches saying we will only start wwIII. look how wwII was started ignorence, we let hitler build up and then kept our ... it was too late thats why america is always sticking their nose in other peoples business ignorance is NOT BLISS Liberators have started running adds about the war with iraq all it basically says is that if we start stuff we"re going to get nuked because we are instigating the problem, but ...

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