... much less keep up to date on current world events. Many teenagers have not even discussed in length the impending war on Iraq. When asked about their stance on "The War" an average teen would assume that the speaker is referring to the War on Terrorism. However, another war is peaking over the horizon, with the ... consideration. Also many Iraqi citizens are oppressed in Iraq and feel the same hatred toward Saddam Hussein as President Bush does. By starting a war on Iraq, President Bush will eventually, end up killing many innocent civilians that are fighting the same fight within their...

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... implications that attacking Iraq would have on our country and other countries throughout the world. When it comes to the morality of fighting a war with Iraq, one must simply just consider the Just War Theory. In order for a war to be just, or morally correct, a war must fall under each principle of the Just War Theory. The first principle states that the decision to go to ... . By not adhering to society's norm, the United States would lose the respect of other countries and institutions throughout the world and in turn would lose the support of those countries in the event of future w...

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... as justification for violence and wars. The main theories that explain policy decisions about war and peace are the theories of realism, pacifism, just-war, and the requirement of discrimination theory. The just-war theory is currently being applied to Iraq by the United States, which can help rid the world of weapons of mass destruction. The realism theory is a basis for establishing a nation ... alternative. Many wise men in the past believed that a great leader avoids war at all costs to preserve statehood, and does not use war to dominate others. America has gained the reputation of...

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... reliable globally. Kaplan and Kristol's novel came from a conservative viewpoint which favored the war in Iraq. "The War over Iraq: Saddam's Tyranny and America's Mission, " argued that the United States invade Iraq to and remove the world from a threatening tyrant. The second novel I read is "Behind the Invasion of ... Iraq " by the Research Unit for Political Economy (RUPE). The group RUPE's book came from a more liberal viewpoint which oppose the war in Iraq. "Behind the Invasion of Iraq ... threaten sustainable world peace. The Research Unit for Political Economy has a more sober vi...

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... do so. I appreciate what progress our country has made for its citizens and inhabitants in protecting their freedoms, but I don't expect that everybody in the world should look to the U. S. as a model. That attitude, however, is held by a large part of the citizenry (an estimate more in my ... and its supporters believe they have the right to decide unilaterally who needs punishment. I disagree that they are in the best position to determine world justice, or in the best position to determine who is dangerous. Susan Wright's lecture following the history of making Iraq a rogue state was...

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... during Pre and Post War Changes have always been an occurrence inside the borders of Iraq. Many rulers and followers have come and gone, leaving everlasting imprints on the land. The history of Iraq and its people dates back to before 3500 BC, the world's first civilization. Numerous ... battles were fought over this prime and fertile land, also known as Mesopotamia. War and conflict have continued on to current times. Several conflicts occurred with the Kurds during the ... formed a coalition to remove the Iraqi troops from the foreign lands. On January 17, 1991, the coalition began b...

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... ) in order to obtain concessions to explore for oil in Mosul and in Kirkuk, two locations in what later was north-central Iraq. Although a few concessions were granted prior to World War I (1914-1918), little surveying or exploration was actually done. In 1912, several rival groups banded together to establish the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC), which would also seek a concession to explore ... the partners (Phyllis and Moushabeck 49). Establishment of the TPC did not, however, eliminate the rivalry among the shareholders representing various national interests, such as those of Great B...

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... Kurdish population in the north, and the native Shia population in the south, which represent 20 percent and 60 percent of the population respectively (Pollack, 61). During Iraq's eight-year war with Iran, Saddam used chemical and biological weapons against his enemy, including a massive chemical weapons attack against the city of Halajaba that killed several thousand civilians, and this was just ... under control, the United Nations passed several resolutions that created sanctions and inhibited Iraq's actions, such as possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Iraqi possession of...

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... it can organize attacks of mass distruction. ("The CEO of Terror Inc.", U.S. News). The Difference Between the Causes The differences between the World Trade Center and The Gulf War aren't to different. Its all about power and who can make the most distruction. Saddam Hussein thought if he could take over Kuwaits ... even rebuilt sections of Babylon's ruins to be a symbol of Iraq's glory and power. (" The Persian Gulf War", Don Nardo). Osama Bin Laden In 1993 Ramzi Ahmed Yousef bombed the basement of the World Trade Center. Yousef's near miss signaled a new age of terror. Bin Laden has ha...

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... do so. I appreciate what progress our country has made for its citizens and inhabitants in protecting their freedoms, but I don't expect that everybody in the world should look to the U. S. as a model. That attitude, however, is held by a large part of the citizenry (an estimate more in my ... and its supporters believe they have the right to decide unilaterally who needs punishment. I disagree that they are in the best position to determine world justice, or in the best position to determine who is dangerous. Susan Wright's lecture following the history of making Iraq a rogue state was...

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... defenseless in the air. As can be seen by Figure 1, the amount of bombs released during the Gulf War is almost proportional to amounts used in World War II, and Vietnam; this is a staggering figure considering that the Gulf War lasted for a month and a half while World War II lasted forty-five months and Vietnam lasted 140 (See Figure 1). Iraq's control centers, munitions factories, and top ... secret installations were destroyed by US smart bombs, satellite espionage and stealth bombers within only a few days. Fig. 1. Comparison of tonnage from various wars showing that the Gulf War is...

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... the greatest consequences or benefits possible. A highly documented issue, receiving international attention in recent months, relates to the war in Iraq. As with all significant military conflicts, there was much contention and deliberation among the public, throughout all regions of the world. The conflict involved an army of allied forces, including US, British, Australian, and Polish military personnel, infiltrating Iraq ... with the primary aim of regime reform. During the prior months to the war, tension had mounted between the US and Iraq, relating to the development of ' ... rel...

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... and now Iraq. By making the issue so black and white, many people have been left voiceless. Clearly Saddam Hussein is a tyrannical leader, who the world would be better off without, but is war the answer? Judging by the populace of peace rallies around the world, many people including myself don't think so. Of course with the US being the superpower of the ... his immediate region, and immanent, and non-existent outside. Yet Iraq is caricatured as if it were a superpower that challenges the world. This alarmist approach adopted by the US is a blatant attempt to scare other nations into ...

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... His aim was to take control of Kuwait's oil reserves, which has about 10 percent of the world's oil reserves. This move sparked the beginning of a war, a short war, but a war that introduced many new weapons and heightened the power of the United States. Saddam Hussein was a man ... of great power in Iraq. Anything he said or wanted to do was done without any questions. Hussein accused Kuwait, and also the United Arab Emirates, of breaking agreements that limit oil production in the Middle East. According to him, this brought down world ... pumped oil from the Iraqi oil field of Rumaila ...

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... Iraq. The United States had to prove that acts of terror and harboring terrorism would no longer be tolerated. I feel than that we used the war with Iraq as a global example of what the consequences would be if such cases of terrorism come up again. Although arguments can be made about the ... of evil was a reason for invading Iraq. By this the President meant that terrorism would not be tolerated. We must remember that this was a war inspired by a war on terrorism. These actions of evil refer to all of the policies that Iraq believed in that posed a threat to our way of life and a ... t...

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... has been little to no progress made in Iraq. These people have generally been identified as the Democratic party. Democrats in general also believe that the war on Iraq was not necessary and was a bad political decision made by Bush. On the other hand, many citizens believe that George Bush is ... be grouped in with the Republican party. Republicans generally tend to support Bush and usually favorably agree with his actions. With all the argued debates over war, it is almost impossible for the United States to ever agree on one solution. Many citizens are republican and support the acts ...

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... politics states that factors external to nations and the international political environment determine how nations and transnational actors on the world stage interact. To determine the causes of the war in Iraq, the polarity of the global political stage will be examined. As the number of poles in a ... system increases, the system becomes quite complex. With the world in multi-polar system, the probability of war is higher than a world in a uni-polar system. The United States decision to enter war in Iraq, while dismissed by many nations, displayed the role of the United States ... as...

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... would enable the economic reforms necessary to reconstruct the Iraqi economy as well as make Iraq the third biggest exporter of oil in the world. It is widely held that Saddam's reliance on chemical and biological weapons gave him an unrealistic viewpoint. He felt that no Arab ... would invade. Even on 1 August 1990, senior officials including US Defence Secretary Cheney believed invasion highly unlikely. Having been so spectacularly surprised, the world quickly came to the defence of Kuwait. UN Security Council Resolution 660 condemned Iraqi hostilities and called on Iraq to withdraw. T...

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... United States is now engaged in a Great War, a world war, the third world war since the defeat of the Germans in World War I. The Germans came back for a second round in 1939, and the Allied victory in 1945 seemed to seal a great peace upon the world. But with the rise of the oil ... 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 ... of poisons and gases and m...

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... limited towards the military as the civilian population also suffered greatly. The inhumane acts by Saddam's regime as an established country are disgusting in the world and age of the 1990's. Young men that tried to flee the country were captured, women were attacked and raped, and hospitals were invaded ... and yet he still in power; in fact, he commits even more treacherous acts on his own people in which he governs. Fortunately the world was behind Kuwait and the United Nation Security Council voted 14 to 0 in favor of a resolutions condemning Iraq's invasion and called for immedia...

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... World "To be blunt, is there a Bush-Sharon Grand Strategy for a Middle East where all resistance to U.S. hegemony is broken and all opposition to Israel's occupation of Arab land ends?- Patrick Buchanan asks in his commentary Is George W. Bush an Imperialist? "Though Iraq does not threaten us,"" he continues, "has not attacked us, cannot defeat us, and does not want war ... the flag of the cross (ADL)."" While these chief, public figureheads of Arab resistance link the spread of U.S. dominance with Zionism, Kanan Makiya, in Cruelty and Silence: War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab World ...

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... of his family, by orders from Saddam Hussein. There is significant evidence indicating that Iraq used chemical weapons against Iran during their 8-year war, which is condemned universally by the international community. Hussein is quoted as saying in an interview with Spanish television, "America used nuclear weapons ... against Japan. Israel possesses nuclear weapons- you and the whole world know about this. Iraq, therefore, has the right to possess the weapons that its enemy has... America moreover, used chemical weapons against ... intractable- that the U.S. consistently tried peace...

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... in the 1960's while before there was dichotomy between civilian and military. The Vietnam War was being fought in people's living rooms. This is the role the media played in Vietnam, to bring the war into people's living rooms. Vietnam wasn't the first war to be brought into peoples homes (world war two was) and it wasn't the last. All this was thanks to the ... press's coverage of the Vietnam war. Daniel Hallin's coverage of the Vietnam war shows that Television's presentation of the Vietnam war was structured by a set of assumptions about ... the medias role was to convoy the public'...

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... Bush's policy because they saw that it wasn't going to make things better in the world because it was only going to enflame even more anger that has been directed towards the U.S. and its allies. Just as Maximus fought and resisted Emperor Lucius, the anti-war groups fought and resisted Bush through public forums of protest. Again on the issue of protest ... and resistance, the film "The Matrix", fits this aspect of the Iraq war very well. Neo wanted to learn the truth of his so called reality that he was living in. Through the efforts of Morpheus and crew he was able to find a world th...

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... name is a household name nowadays known by everyone, young and old. He has been made out to be just like all the other tyrants of this world that have come to be and have faded away by time. Saddam Hussein forced his way to the presidency and has been president since 1979. Through the ... years he has shown the world that he is a brutal leader and will do anything to stay in power even if it means risking the lives of his own people. But is ... the image of Iraq and the image of Saddam Hussein. The Iran-Iraq war was widespread and included religious schisms, border disputes, and politica...

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