... , and they had nothing to do with the terrorist attack on September 11. That tragic day should have taught us that we, the U.S., cannot afford to ignore the truth about our use of unprecedented military power to inflict harm on others (www.nomorevictims.org/Letter.html). Going to war should be the last ... Iraq because they think Iraq is not cooperating with the UN inspections, was would result in massive human suffering. The Bush Adminstation wants to go to war because Saddam Hussein has violated UN Security Council resolutions, and he is also abusing his own people, and have weapons of...

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... national, or international concern and its importance to you. What Happened to Unity? We watched the towers burn. We looked on in horror as countless people made the decision to jump to their deaths. We stood up proudly to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. We realized how trivial our common worries were. But now, ... rising...I actually reached a point when I could no longer watch the television. One image that stuck in my mind was that of papers slowly falling from the towers, among the concrete, metal, and ash. They flooded the streets, thousands of them. Those papers reminded me that S...

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... The shadowy environment of the cave symbolizes for Plato the physical world of appearances. Escaping into the sun-filled setting outside the cave symbolizes the transition to the real world, the world of full and perfect being, which is the proper object of knowledge. Although Plato would not agree with this ... plays a large role in knowledge. All opinions are based off of experience. If a persons opinion is correct, he or she is on the track to knowledge and acquiring that knowledge for life. Plato distinguishes between two levels of awareness: opinion and knowledge. Claims about the p...

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... arrives, everything turns into disaster. Companies cut back on employees, others employees are given notices, or then laid-off. Learning about this category created a spark inside of me and I decided to find articles. This past year, the economy of Canada as well as other countries have been suffering. Events such as September 11, the war in Iraq and current issues such ... for many industries. Air Canada, for example, recently warned workers that it needed to cut back. It already cut back 3, 600 workers but it says that they still need to lay-off more employees. People are scared to fl...

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... on December 15th - nine years after US forces stepped foot on the foreign ground. US troops initially staged a war to rid Iraq of the weapons of mass destruction that they were thought to possess, but after almost a decade in the hostile country, no such weapons were found. Instead, the nine-year ... , by economic and social issues, by the demands of democracy itself. Challenges remain, but the US will be there to stand by the Iraqi people as they navigate those challenges to build a stronger and more prosperous nation," said Panetta (Shanker). "After a lot of blood spilled by Iraqis and...

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... each station before it can be opened and manned by the newly graduated police force. It will take a few more months for the rest to come online and help in the fight against militants in the streets of Iraq. The process for validating a police station takes some time. There ... are certain things that have to be done before the Coalition will allow it to be opened. It must be able to stand on its own without support from Coalition forces before it can be released on its own. They ... can and will protect them," said Bloom, who attributes the decline in violent attacks in Salah ad Din to ...

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... 1938, and assumed his current post in January 1997, and was reappointed in January 2001. His career highlights have been a mission to ensure transfer to democratic rule in Nigeria in 1998, brokering an agreement between Libya and the UN's security council concerning responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing in ... 1999 and he organised an international response to the crisis in East Timor in the same year. In 2000, he secured the certification of Israel's withdrawal from the Lebanon and he made, and has continued to make, strong efforts to encourage peaceful negotiations between Israel a...

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How to Improve China's International Trade? Since the open-door policy and the economic reform in 1979, China's economy has been developing rapidly. And the international trade also comes to a new era. In 1978, the total value of foreign trade of China is about $20.6 billion, about $ 70 billion in 1985, $280.9 billion in 1995,and $509.8 billion in 2001. According to the ... around China also affects the competitive ability of China's exporting commodities. Facing all these difficulties, what should we do? In order to improve China's international trade, there are a lot of things we should do...

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HOW IS THE WAR REPRESENTED IN THE NEWS MEDIA? The media, whether it is the printed news or seen on television is saturated with news of the war with Iraq. But is this information fed to us, legitimate or does it have hidden biases not understood by the common reading public? The news shown to the ... American public is biased in many ways. The war in Iraq is represented in one perspective - which is the American viewpoint. The damage to artillery, the injuries, the casualties are all American. What about the Iraqi people, the poor defenseless victims in this war? They are hardly ... news bull...

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... troops in Iraq, or at least normal for the area. One thing that was a little different was a visit by Brig. General Peter J. Talleri to Camp Taji. Talleri is the commander of the Defense Distribution Center and is stationed in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania. While in the area, he also visited ... and three others were also captured in another operation targeting al Qaeda courier networks near Tarmiyah in the Belt region. The terrorist captured is believed to be involved with al Qaeda as a courier in the region as well as having connections in other areas. The three other individuals were ...

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... consider the culture and the different faiths and people it holds. One must also give thought to the leader, and his beliefs in running the system. What is that leader doing to help the country? And if he is not helping the country. What exactly is he doing wrong? And how can one change it. A great example is Bush's invading Iraq in order ... to reorder the government into a democratic one, dependent on a fair constitution and written rights, much like our own. It is almost an impossible task. In fact, the word "reorder" puts it ... culture clash problems Iraq faced, even before the U...

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... would only be part of the solution. The Bush administration felt that a new start was needed in the Middle East and that Iraq was the place to show that it is democracy, not terrorism, which offers hope. From a structure function approach, Iraq is considered a worldwide deviant. This tag, is a ... stretched across twelve years following the end of the Persian Gulf War. Secretary of State Colin Powell stressed the meaning of these infractions in an address to the U.N. Security Council on Februrary 5th 2003 about U.N. Resolution 1441. "Resolution 1441 was not dealing with an innocent party,...

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... United States has made this mistake. In Vietnam the United States Military sent soldiers into dangerous situations without specifying any military objectives to be accomplished. During these harmful situations there was no strategy and the army suffered from this, which not only caused extreme losses ... . against the threat posed by Iraq" and to "restore international peace and security in the region." Since there are no specific objectives, there is no way for our military to accomplish anything worthwhile. Besides having no real military strategy, we also do not have an apparent enem...

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... shown, joined the series of mass candlelight rally to protest against the Americans - this eventually contributed in spreading anti-American sentiment in Korea. However, it turned out to be that Mr. Bush never came to apologize to Korean citizens for the wrongdoing. How foolish was it for us to actually expect such a powerful country to be considerate to this tiny, powerless country? In this regard, ... Korea should think smart and dispatch troops to Iraq because Korea, willing or not, is heavily reliant on ... the U.S. for diplomatic relations especially relating to North Korea, and t...

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... is not what we need right now," the group said in a letter. "What we need is for you, personally, to make a strong, simple, and public statement supporting our right to drive" (Dougherty). State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland defended Clinton, saying, "There are times when it makes sense to do so publicly and there are times for quiet diplomacy" (Dougherty). Clinton pursued quiet diplomacy and chose ... on many other issues, including the Arab Spring uprisings in other Mideast and North African nations (Dougherty). On June 3rd, the Saudi women sent Clinton a letter requesting he...

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... reactors; a global safety net must be placed upon them to make sure they were not being used to manufacture a bomb. So the Stalinist regime of Kim Jong agreed to dismantle its burgeoning nuclear weapons program, and to allow international inspectors full access to its stockpiles of plutonium, for verification. The framework of ... the treaty was negotiated in conjunction with ex-president and 2002 Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter. This treaty was an outright defiance to skeptics who said the Clinton administration was gullible, warning that North Korea was stalling while it built mor...

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... Ottomans would get tired of fighting both these forces therefore making it easier for Britain to take over. No I do not think what Britain did to the Arabs was fair because she tricked and lied to them; Britain's refusal to give the Arabs their independence after they fought the Ottomans was wrong. Lawrence of ... not keep her word; instead she created a Sykes-Picot agreement with France, an agreement that divided up the Middle East into different regions to be controlled by either France or Britain. Britain did not realize that by forming these boundaries without taking into considerat...

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... regime full power over the government states. Also, the boycott of all the Jewish owned stores helped Hitler in his gain of power. They used these powers to destroy the other political parties. Hitler claimed the German people only needed one party. Hitler violated a few things while he was in power. Hitler violated ... world. Also, his weapons are a pretty big help also. The United States needs to be firm with their actions. Our country has taken a lot of blows. We need to show that we are not all talk, and that we will do what we say we will. Many countries have a jealousy of the Unit...

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... for over 500 years. Then the Assyrians took over in 9 BC and the barbarism continued. The Assyrians pulled their people together to form a fighting force to insure the survival of their empire. King Nebuchadnezzar of the 6th century conquered Jerusalem, enslaved the Israelites and built the Hanging Gardens ... 1963 another coup ended Qasim rule. The nationalist Baath party led by Ahmad al-Bakr took over rule of Iraq. Saddam was invited to return to Iraq, but the al-Bakr government did not last and Saddam was briefly jailed. By 1968 the Baath party had resumed power and ... foreign count...

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... rise on fears and perceptions, not just on supply and demand. If the 1991 war were to repeat itself and Saddam were to burn the oil fields again, there could be major effects on the national oil supply. There is a great deal of uncertainty as to how high the prices may rise. The price has already gone up with the talk of war and ... there's no telling how high they could get while the war is taking place. There is no limit to how high prices may rise; it all depends on what price is charged for ... gasoline used daily. When you consider that there are about 100 million households in Am...

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... U.S. Troops" I found an article on the New York Times website today that I thought had something to do with what we have been talking about. Before our Huntington's presentations we talked about how we thought the news showing the Gulf War on television may have been part of the reason that some of ... would eventually go against us. Well today I read an article that explains the role of journalism in the war that is coming up. According to Ralph Blumenthal and Jim Rutenberg there will be at least 500 journalists, photographers and television crew members including at least 100 foreign n...

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... he has. The guard relises that John is innocent, still though doesn't do anything about it and John Coffee ends up dieing in the electric chair. Now this is like the opposite to every individual having a right to justice, John Coffee was innocent the whole time but was still kept locked ... a trial about it and evidence being brought in, except going off one girls words and actions that were put on to make it seem more dramatic. Giving the girls a chance to try and clear their reasons and actions for being in certain places and explaining what had been seen have a logical ... to search...

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... tortured and killed under Saddams orders. Americans in agreement with the Bush Administration and the occupation say it is our duty to make sure we do not allow these atrocities to happen again. Another issue brought forth by supporters of the occupation is the state of the government and law enforcement in ... Iraq. As it stands right now, Iraq does not have any form of leadership. The American and coalition forces need to stay in Iraq to make certain ... that a government is created in a civil, democratic manner. The Bush Administration and supporters fear that if left up to the vari...

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... ;How Not to Reconstruct Iraq, Afghanistan – or America," he explains how the United States' reconstruction of Iraq should not be a sign of American imperialism. Van Buren also claims that the U.S. Government failed on reconstructing Iraq after the conflict due to the corruption, to the vanity of some companies (contractors and on-the make ... All this violence has led thousands of Iraqi families to flee their homes and flee the country. Now we might become able to understand the feeling of a Iraqi that had his house invaded, controlled and after all that, rebuilt in terms that do not r...

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... and ill hit Israel and you'll see what will happen.everyone says we go over there for oil, no in 1991 when the war first started schartzcof *dont know how to spell his name but was the general in charge of desert storm* any way right before it started america and allies had very reliable Intel that said he had AT ... 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 kep...

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