... which makes him remotely able to attack any given country in the world with a nuclear missile! I am not arguing that the Iraq problem doesn't exist. Saddam Hussein did use horrible methods of oppression against his own people, killing thousands of them. However, it is a fact that the country was under sanctions for the ... why THESE weapons? I guess the oil prices are getting a bit too high. Then comes in the issue of vengeance? George Bush doesn't like what Saddam Hussein did to George Bush. Okay this is confusing. What a dumbass names his kids with his own name, or do they have a name...

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... 's father involved the United States into the first war with Iraq in 1991. We were successful but unfortunately we didn't finish what we started with Saddam Hussein. Hussein was defeated and was driven out of Kuwait. In the first war with Iraq, Bush had all the support from the U.N. coalition. " U.S. ... Al Qaeda terrorists. No evidence was found, no proof, but yes a pervasive idea that Saddam Hussein was in an approach or involvement in a nuclear program. "President Bush said Wednesday that there was no proof tying Saddam Hussein to the Sept. 11 attacks Bush's comments were his most dire...

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... people of this country gave up some of their freedom, and liberties that they took for granted. Because of this we saw President Bush focus his attention on Saddam Hussein. President Bush Believes that Saddam Hussein pursuit of weapons of mass destruction pose a grave danger, not only to his neighbors, but also to the United States. His regime aids, and protects terrorists, including ... of mass destruction demands unwarering determination, and firm international cohesion on the part of all countries for which freedom is precious. On January 30 the U.N. Weapons inspectors have confirme...

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... ready to extend an invitation to Iraq. Finally, America should expedite its efforts to find and detain or kill Saddam Hussein. Many Iraqis are unwilling to cooperate with American forces for fear that Saddam will once again rise to power. Additionally, US officials believe that Saddam Hussein "may be playing a significant role in coordinating and directing attacks by his loyalists against American forces in Iraq ... ," according to Thursday's (October 30, 2003) New York Times. Clearly, the capture or death of Saddam Hussein is one of America's major goals in Iraq. The only drawback is th...

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... built more nuclear weapons. Regardless of spectators and opinionates, the path of peace was still the intended goal. Under the Leadership of Bill Clinton, the United States faced Iraq and Saddam Hussein. The purpose of the Gulf War was to drive out Iraqi military from Kuwait rather than to go directly after the power that ... is cooperative and they want to prove to the world that they have, in fact, disarmed," this alone is reason to attack Iraq because they are obviously building weapons if Saddam won't let inspectors in. President Bush has stated many examples of Saddam Hussein's hom...

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... built more nuclear weapons. Regardless of spectators and opinionates, the path of peace was still the intended goal. Under the Leadership of Bill Clinton, the United States faced Iraq and Saddam Hussein. The purpose of the Gulf War was to drive out Iraqi military from Kuwait rather than to go directly after the power that ... is cooperative and they want to prove to the world that they have, in fact, disarmed," this alone is reason to attack Iraq because they are obviously building weapons if Saddam won't let inspectors in. President Bush has stated many examples of Saddam Hussein's hom...

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... Iraq is suspected of possessing weapons of mass destruction that might case another startling attack on Iran. And therefore America should take action before Hussein moves. Yet a vast majority of people argue against this scheme. Is the President proposing with the right resolution on this matter? Probably ... he has them?" (Calabresi, October 28,) Is Iraq a military threat to the world? Did Bush declared war on Iraq just because Saddam Hussein promotes "international terror"? There is no evidence to support the claims. It is increasingly clear that the proposed attack on Iraq has ... a ...

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... why troops were being sent into Iraq at the beginning of the conflict. One stated reason was that it was believed that the dictator, Saddam Hussein was harboring weapons of mass destruction that could prove detrimental to the stability of our nation and many other nations. Another reason for the Iraq ... conflict was to diminish the threat of international terrorism and promote democracy. Also, it was said that Hussein helped Osama bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda, achieve his goal of attacking the Twin Towers and killing many people. The author believes ... author believes that there ...

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... the United States. Over half of Americans support George Bush in his decision to follow through with a war against Iraq. Most Americans are okay with the idea of going after Saddam Hussein, but other people such as Thomas Murphy, a World War II veteran, said, "we need to get that bunch that bombed the World Trade Center first- (Karen Tumulty 42). Supporters of ... invading Iraq believe in President Bush's actions because they would rather have the war on America's terms versus allowing Saddam Hussein to rebuild Iraq's arsenal of mass destruction. For those that are in complete support f...

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... up the radical faction were deemed as "animals who do not value freedom" by the Bush Administration. In Iraq, the United States believed that along with 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. That invoked the idea that it was necessary to intervene in the ongoing situation in Iraq. And in his State ... story happened to unfold when the United ...

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... are there: (1) purported terrorist activities in Iraq, with a direct connection to Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network and its attacks on September 11, 2001 (2) continuing violations by Saddam Hussein through continuing development, construction and deployment of weapons of mass destruction purportedly being built so fast, and being so potentially available for terror attacks, that the U.N. inspectors could not be ... allowed an additional three weeks to look for them (3) Hussein's pattern of systematic repression carried against his own citizens. According to polls, most Americans now b...

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... fighting to stay alive on a daily basis. Despite the many critics of Bush, he says, "There was no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein was a grave and gathering threat to America and the world"(CNN). All said and done where do we go from here now that ... Saddam is gone? Opponents of the campaign think our job is finished there, and do not see any benefit in the occupation, only daily news ... keep Iraq from becoming a dictatorship again and to keep the Iraqi people safe from such regimes. After the Gulf War in 1990, when America withdrew from Iraq, Saddam Hussein's regime took revenge ...

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... a result of non-hostile actions. Iraq has an overall population of 24 million people. A majority of these people are Shia Muslim, but Saddam Hussein and the other members of the Baath Party political elite is Sunni Muslim. About one-quarter (506 million) of Iraqi citizens live in Baghdad. ... More than 3.3 million live in Kurdish-controlled territory in northern Iraq. Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, has about 28,000 inhabitants. On December 2 United States troops detained the private secretary of Saddam Hussein's fugitive number two, Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, during a huge search operation in K...

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... are being killed everyday, knowing that it is hurting the morality of the country. President Bush declared that Iraq was withholding weapons of mass destruction in early 2003. Bush gave Saddam Hussein an ultimatum: he could leave his country and give up the weapons or face an invasion from the United States military ... . Hussein had 48 hours to make his decision. Hussein did not comply with Bush's ultimatum so the troops were sent in to invade Iraq. Bush told our country that Saddam was withholding the weapons. The country found it hard to believe that Saddam was withholding weapons. Ho...

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... Everybody has their own opinion so it will be impossible to state them all, but here are the strongest arguments. The first issue is that Saddam Hussein was a mass murder of his own people and was abusing his power in office. One might argue that it was not our position to fight ... sat back and watch as millions of countless innocent people were murdered. This is exactly what would of happened if they would have risen against Saddam. Second, Saddam and his regime supported international terrorism which also takes the life's of countless innocent people. No, we are not the ones who figh...

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... advisors and escalate to war like Vietnam did. In Vietnam the Viet Cong used tunnels and literally had underground worlds. That hasn't been the case for fighting Saddam. Also the terrain isn't a jungle as it was in Vietnam. The length of time our soldiers were overseas is also an obvious difference. Nine years ... we haven't lost as many lives. The most important difference though is that Vietnam was fought to hold back communist China and Iraq was to remove Saddam from power. Although the blazing similarities between these wars, Iraq is not another Vietnam. So far we haven't seen the ou...

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... our course of action. He described why the use of force is not only warranted, but it is also obligatory, and that Saddam Hussein is a real and impending threat to our security. In addition, Bush stated that we cannot trust Hussein's sanity. The president also outlined his plans to use force against Iraq. Although many people support President Bush's plan to invade Iraq ... . One person who backs the president's plan is Secretary of State Colin Powell, who is going to the United Nations on February 5 to share intelligence with its Security Council about Saddam Hussein not accounting for ...

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... 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 signed a treaty 12 years ago under President Bush saying that he would not build ... that we know he has been building these weapons and will continue to do so. All President Bush asks for is total and complete disarmament, but Saddam refuses to do so. United Nations investigators have found that Iraq has Anthrax and other bio-chemicals that they have not destroyed after proclaimi...

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... survive and flourish. But tell me, what exactly are we fighting for in Iraq? Sand, oil and what? President Bush has frightened us into believing that Saddam has possession of chemical warfare products and he is going to use them, soon. So what else is new and this time, where is the proof? One reporter ... said, "Saddam has not done anything different in the past ten (10) years, so why did Bush send our troops over there in a war that is not our own? ... On an MTV broadcast, President Bush said, "this is the man that tried to kill my father." Could this war be a personal vendetta again...

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... assassinated or arrested. The biggest event of the year wasn't great invention thought but huge invasion in Iraq by American troops. Invasion was the result of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's violations on weapons of mass destruction. Hussein kept very dangerous weapons and also made chemical weapons that are totally banned by every government. President Bush gave him time to destroy the weapons, but ... Hussein tried to cover it up and waste time. Hussein thought that United Nations will help him, but he was wrong and out troops are bombing Baghdad now. UN tried to ... help Hussein a...

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... thousands dead between 2005-2008" (The Editors). The United States invaded Iraq in 2003 looking for weapons of mass destruction. That led to the capture and eventual death of leader Saddam Hussein. However, no weapons were ever found and in doing such the U.S. military succeeded in bringing the Shiite majority to power, outing the Sunnis, and upsetting a delicate historical balance between the ... right direction; they are so good, in fact, that Obama has been able to take this historic decision. The hopes we held in 2003 when the U.S.-led coalition first toppled Saddam Hussein have fin...

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... stating that we believe that the people have a right to choose how they want to be governed and they have the right to choose who will govern over them. When Saddam Hussein was in power the people of Iraq should have the choice to kick him out of power or to keep him. Therefore, the United States going into Iraq and deciding ... that Saddam Hussein is bad for Iraq without asking the Iraqis themselves is depleting them from exercising their democratic power as a people. To the Iraqis, the United States is acting like a dictator making ... ...

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... forgive you. The problem is George Bush didn't admit he was wrong. He just seemed to forget that the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" were his basis for waging war upon Saddam Hussein, who I might add is just like these WMD has yet to be found. He turned to the other more logical reason for invading Iraq, to liberate, but that's a lie, he ... the President of the United States making a case for a war against Iraq. This quote also helps lead up to the next lie that Mr. Bush has told, the connection of Saddam Hussein to Osama Bin Laden. For months leading up to the war the Bush administratio...

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... and a pluralist point of view. I will share my opinion of the issue, and offer possible outcomes of the end result. President George W. Bush recently told Americans of the danger of Saddam Hussein. He stated that The Iraqi leader is a major threat to the world. Bush told us that the American government has evidence indicating that ... Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, which he will not hesitate to use. This statement brought a lot of concern to the American people, which was accentuated by the events of September ... that are against this war. In my opinion, I think military act...

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... . Bush went with the intelligence gathered by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). CIA Director George Tenet had two sources that he believed were credible. "One source "with direct access to Saddam" told a U.S. ally that Iraq was aggressively seeking to develop a nuclear weapon, had chemical weapons and was "dabbling" with biological agents". Basically we went to Iraq just for the fun of ... States. North Korea openly said that they were developing biological weapons, but why didn't we do anything about that? I guess President Bush's wonderful reason for going to war was that Saddam H...

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