World's View on Iraq The United States government has made it perfectly clear that military action in the very near future is needed against Saddam Hussein and Iraq for weapons violations. ... Although the United States is backed by the British government, they are experiencing a very similar situation to the United States, with many of its citizens avidly protesting the war. ... One member was quoted as saying, "It looks like they are going to attack Iraq and we want the British government to know "you are not doing this in our name" if they go ahead" (BBC News, p.1). Many are callin...

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South Korea also fought with the U.S. together with smaller groups from Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Thailand, but the U.S. was missing Britain and who was there main partner. ... It started because France and Vietnam's leader, Ho Chi Minh, had a difference in opinion about the type of government Vietnam should have. ... The current "president" is Saddam Hussein, who originally rose to power in 1979 through a coup in which the Ba"ath Party overthrew the government of General Abdul Arif in Iraq of 2001. ...

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Upon a cease fire with Iraq, their government agreed to let United Nations weapons inspectors enter their country and "unconditionally accept" the destruction, removal or rendering harmless "under international supervision" of all "chemical and biological weapons, all stocks of agents, all related subsystems and components and all research, development, support and manufacturing facilities." ... Due to the ruthless dictatorship that Saddam Hussein rules under, the possibility of anyone within his government persuading him to disarm is non existent. ... On March 18, 2...

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Today there exists in our world, an enormous blanket. This invisible blanket is silently smothering our society, blinding innocent citizens. Common people such as you and me are caught in the middle of this blanket and outside of it, there is a whole different world, something that those inside the ...

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The plan was to give $400 million U.S. dollars in aid to Turkey and Greece with which to set up respective governments. ... American analysts had hoped that the invasion would spark a popular uprising against the Guatemalan government. When the citizens of Guatemala failed to revolt against their own government the CIA decided to take a more active role in the plot to overthrow Arbenz. ... Fighting on one side was a coalition of forces including the United States, the Republic of Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, and South Korea. ... Australia lost almost 500 of the 47,000 troops they had dep...

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However, the government found it difficult to decide upon and state one overriding reason for going to war. ... The military coalition consisted of Afghanistan, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Honduras, Italy, Kuwait, Morocco, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, South Korea, Spain, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emir...

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