... as Heads of State or responsible officials in Government Departments, shall not be considered as freeing them from responsibility or mitigating punishment. ( The Avlon Project paragraph 14)" George Bush has committed the United States to war without congressional consent. From September, 2001 through January 2003 President Bush eliminated options for a peaceful resolution (Francis Boyle article 4). Neither him, nor any of his ... top officials, ever met President Saddam to diplomatically negotiate the conflict. George Bush has lead a baseless war against Iraq. The war can only be justifi...

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... States and a handful of allies invaded and replaced the evil dictatorship in Iraq to ensure the safety of the United States, as well as the world. To understand why a dictator like Saddam Hussein is a threat to the international community, it is important to understand his brutally insane nature that has made him comparable to the likes of some of the most atrocious dictators in world history ... close ties with terrorist organizations such as Al-Qaeda, and in recent years these groups have joined together with tyrants like Saddam Hussein to achieve a unilateral goal: causing chaos and ...

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In the year 2003 George W. Bush is the President to deliver the annual State on the Union Address; in the last part to be considered here he deals with the foreign policy and therefore the controversial topic of a possible war against Iraq. First, I ... . Now let's have a quick look on the development of the crisis. Having been the dictator of Iraq since 1979, Saddam Hussein is said to have chemical and biological weapons which violate the UN Charta. Considering previous aggressive and cruel actions by Saddam as invading Iran and later on, in 1990 ... ruling your country"(l. 6,7), which is b...

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... contingents of occupying force remain deployed who watch the sad plight rather indifferently in most of the cases. Armed gangs still wander around and shooting breaks out occasionally. People wonder why a city that was captured within 20 days remains hapless even after two months of takeover even though there has been, at least, one round of civil administrative effort under retired ... list for the restoration of utilities. Basra was made better off in terms of both water and electricity even though it was being managed simply by the occupying British troops. Why then have the American...

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... context. When I know the facts, I"m more likely to support what you are pitching me. That's all war rhetoric is, the speaker is pitching an idea to the crowd. The government normally believes in going to fight a war or stopping communism in another country and it's their duty to get the majority to agree with them. This is why these speeches are so important. If the speaker ... fails to get his point across it could have drastic repercussions. There was a lot ... Iraq having these weapons evoked emotion within myself and this justified, to me, us going to war. This is why a logical app...

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... regime. Symbolic images of the Iraqi people destroying statutes of Saddam Hussein were transmitted across all regions of the world. Although there was early resistance, and civilian casualties did result from the military action within Iraq, there was a distinct sense that the Iraqi people had indeed been liberated after the disposition of Saddam Hussein. In addition ... within Iraqi society. Zunes (1999) provides an article that examines a similar topic to that raised within this discussion. The article relates to the 1998 US led war against Yugoslavia, and outlines reasons why the war ...

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... humanitarian law. What began as a peaceful protest swiftly turned into a malevolent bloodshed sustained by a collection of multiple foreign interferences. The international community has responded in one way or another to tackle the problems put forth by the conflicting Bashar al-Assad regime and the Syrian people. State actors such as the United States who support opposition groups and Russia who ... War discussed earlier have intervened because of humanitarian reasons. Others, however, have only placed their interests as their first priority. Many people have argued that the internatio...

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... of sustaining democratic values. Well, they were wrong."" Democracy has spread. The enforceable codes of Fascism, in these countries, have been replaced by those of democracy. Did these countries catch the "Freedom Bug?- Did the citizens see the freedom of faculty held by democratic countries, and after a brief comparison, choose such ability over their traditional codes of behavior? Or, was ... He writes, Lebanese novelist Elias Khouri could see "indications of a new crusades- looming over the horizon rooted in an orientalist "complex toward the East- which still ruled Western psychology...

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... therefore are able to remain objective. One must do extensive searching but the truth is out there; you just won't get it in your local or national news journals. ON FREEDOM "FROM- RELIGION; WHY THE CRUSADE There is a common fervor among a majority of nave Americans who believe George Bush is ... one ex-head of the CIA, one current President, and one Florida governor. Here is a brief career history of Bushie and his team:  George Bush (two time failed businessman) senior executive Arbustro Energy/Bush Exploration, senior executive Harken Oil  Dick Cheney, CEO Halliburton  Condol...

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... and follow the "simple" rules of English. Nonetheless I have never taken kindly to being told how to write. In his essay Politics and the English Language, George Orwell describes the decline of the English language. Conveniently he also explains to everyone who reads his essay, how to write. That is if they want to write without "making nonsense of the whole passage" (27). He attributes the ... riskiest of all options, because the longer we wait, the stronger and bolder Saddam Hussein will become. We could wait and hope that Saddam does not give weapons to terrorists, or develop a nucl...

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... for its fuel tanks and size. Each one of the planes that hit the towers had enough fuel to get to Los Angeles, that was enough fuel to cause each of the towers to melt on the inside and collapsed like they did. The planes were as big as they come and with 34 rows of six seats in each row that ... is a lot of people times four. Osama bin Laden thought it was the perfect plan, but George W. Bush doesn't think so! ... he could scare off half the other Islamic countries, then succeeding with his power trim over his Arab pals who looked up to him! bin Laden tried to shake the United States o...

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... including the cost of reconstructing and nation building. In the past the US have made decisions that have been proven to be detrimental to other nations. Back in 1991 George Bush Senior's refusal to support the General uprising against President Saddam left thousands of Iraqis to be massacred, while the US backing of the Afghan resistance saw the formation of the Taliban. Will the US ... that is clearly opposed to by a large majority of Australians. And it is this symbolic military commitment that renders Australia a likely terrorist target. George Bush is not our president and neither...

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... O. Russell, Three Kings was theatrically released in 1999. The story unfolds in the aftermath of the Gulf War; burnout Special Forces Major Archie Gates (George Clooney) figures out from a reporter that the Iraqis have stashed Kuwaiti gold in a nearby village, and that there is a map showing the location of ... where the gold is stashed, but the natives mistakenly think that this is their chance to rise up (as President George Bush had exhorted them to do) to fight Saddam, whose forces occupy the village. Eventually, Gates decides to help the villagers out, and the Americans get caught u...

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Natural resources are a major contributor of why countries all around the world create bonds and friendships so that they can be supplied with this specific resource. Some countries however become greedy and want to acquire more than they should. On August 2nd, 1990 Iraqi military forces invaded and occupied the small Arab State of Kuwait. Iraqi dictatorial president Saddam Hussein gave the order ... the entire world by invading Kuwait. Soon every country on the globe started to hate Iraq for what they were doing. The United Nations Security Council decided to use military force if Iraq did n...

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... They were also angry because they needed food, water and medicine and the aid promised by President Bush had not appeared. They asked us why the United States was taking over Iraq, and whether the Americans would stay in Iraq forever. They saw the US-led invasion as a ... the Bush administration's alleged desire to free the repressed citizens of Iraq and introduce them to democracy and liberty ought to be supported and encouraged, and the White House's commitment to this supposed war aim closely monitored. George Bush quoted "This nation never conquers, but we liberate". Did he forget t...

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... put more power into the hands of a government that was not only unfriendly to the U.S., but a sworn enemy of the state of Israel, a strong U.S. ally. In addition to, the fall of communism had created what George Bush had described as, "A new world order,"" and would become the first ... sports arenas, Saddam hospitals, Saddam cafes, and, of course, dozens of Saddam billboards, statues, mosaic walls, and monster outdoor portraits."" Any opposition to his political views was irraticated. For example, membership in the opposition party ShiaDawa was punishable by death. One of its leaders, I...

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... 20 years. There is more legal and historical basis for Iraq or any other "rogue" state to invade this country than there is for the current US oil profit scheme that anti-war demonstrators have been pressing. US President George W. Bush has delivered a personal message to the Australian public, warning the risks of doing nothing about Iraq far outweighed the risks involved in ... 1991 Gulf war, Saddam's regime accepted disarmament provisions that called for its weapons of mass destruction to be identified and destroyed. Its WMD activities were to be subjected to "unprecedentedly intrusi...

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... unlikely than the idea that Iraq would resist us at any chance they get. The main problem with countries like Iraq is that if they ever did reach global power status, they would not be able to act responsibly because their ways would not change. Saddam Hussein is a major disruption in the balance of the international community, and should be seen as ... , there is no such thing as one all-powerful government. Most people would describe the UN as just that: a government to oversee the international community. The UN, according to Mearsheimer, cannot realistically be expected to do its job...

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... political decision made by Bush. On the other hand, many citizens believe that George Bush is doing a fabulous job while in office. The particular citizens would be grouped in with the Republican party. Republicans generally tend to support Bush and usually favorably agree with his actions. With all the argued ... who are Democrat and have a totally different viewpoint on this situation. They believe that going into Iraq and searching through there compounds will turn out to be a waste of time and effort. They feel that since it is not U.S. territory, then that U.S. should not get involv...

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... or what is responsible for what occurs in international relations. Similar to detectives on a TV show, political experts gather evidence and attempt to understand why an event occurs. In examining the conflict in Iraq, political experts attempt to identify "causal" factors. The underlying task is to examine why the United States went to war in Iraq. The causes for the conflict in Iraq will ... people who make policy. Therefore, understanding the human decision-making process will lead to understanding how international politics works. To understand the causes of the conflict in Iraq by an...

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... his outside enemies, but his own people in which he governs in Iraq. In order for one to fully comprehend this event, one must look back at the Persian Gulf War plus its aftermath and Saddam Hussein himself in order to see why we must go to war with Iraq. Saddam Hussein was born 1937 in Al-jawa, a village in north-central Iraq (). He ... against Kuwait's puny and under experienced force of 20,000 defenders (). With the Arab nations recognizing this threat they called upon Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to reach a peaceful agreement and they did so in favor of Iraq....

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... the George W. Bush administration form 2001 to 2009. Specifically, the blunders that happened during the occupation of Iraq by the United States in 2004 and how the country struggled to secure Iraq and rebuild their government. According to Diamond ... is, as Diamond writes, the central pedestal that supports all else; because without security one cannot begin to reconstruct the economy, nor can you achieve political and/or social reconstruction. Therefore the error of not taking ... , control over the borders with Syria and Iran, etc. The scarcity of troops and lack of resources availabl...

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In the summer of 2003 President George W. Bush waged a military campaign in Iraq with false justifications and fabricated documents that were used as evidence to further his war agenda. Throughout literature there are uncanny resemblances to this moment in current events. Ranging from the dictatorial King Creon in Sophocles" "Antigone" to the Eighth circle of falsifiers in Dante Alighieri's "Inferno" to More's resistance against King Henry ... else's. In the film Gladiator, Maximus was dealt a great blow of injustice when Emperor Lucius slaughtered his family and ruined his life because he di...

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... argumentation? Argumentation is defined as; a process of making arguments intended to justify beliefs, attitudes, and values so as to influence others. A perfect example of argumentation or an argument occurred on 10/7/02 at 8:02pm, when President George Bush outlined the Iraqi threat and argued that action is necessary. ... Argumentation involves reasoning, evidence and claims, all of which can be found in the president's speech. Bush begins his speech with a proposition, "to discuss a grave threat to peace . . . The threat comes ... between possibly winning people over or not. The pr...

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... , members of an Afghanistan based organization named al-Qaeda, and its' leader, Osama bin Laden, left President George W. Bush with a daunting and complicated decision of how to react. President Bush was faced with an assault that "was so sudden and so shocking that it seemed to obliterate many of the doubts that were the legacy of the country's tortured Vietnam experience. Polls show ... War would help (the) U.S...fight an unpredictable foe." Another reality that weighed towards a possible military intervention was that the Taliban, Afghanistan's terrorist harboring ruling government, h...

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