Iraq

Under the reign of Saddam Hussein, Iraq has invaded two of its neighbors, lobbed missiles at two other countries in the region, systematically defied U.N. resolutions that demand its disarmament, fired on U.S. and coalition aircraft thousands of times over the past decade. Committed atrocious human rights abuses against its own citizens, including the waging of genocidal chemical warfare against Iraqi Kurds. This regime was responsible for hundreds of .
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             thousands of deaths. Meanwhile, Iraq had a long record of active support for international terrorist groups. It is apparent the regime staged terrorist attacks of its own directly against the United States with the involvement in the attempted assassination of former President Bush in Kuwait in 1993. Iraq has been engaged for many years in the pursuit of weapons of mass destruction. It reportedly has significant stockpiles of biological weapons, and its aggressive, large-scale nuclear program is thought to be at most a few years away from success. Iraq regime had been willing to endure ongoing sanctions, and the loss of hundreds of billions of dollars in oil revenue, rather than dismantle its weapons of mass destruction programs showed the its commitment to maximizing its destructive capabilities (Lindsey 40+). .
             The successful rebuilding of Iraq will not be easy, but U.S. cannot allow Iraq to become a unstable country-harboring terrorist, and U.S. cannot assume that the Iraq's citizens will bring freedom to a region that has never known it on a time scale consistent with safeguarding American lives. The post-Saddam will require a big U.S. military presence. An Allied Control Commission, consisting of representatives of Iraq's liberators, America, Britain, and free Iraqis that should arrest Saddam's criminal henchman, establish just courts, and provide for local elections to a convention that would propose the structure of a new Iraqi state.