President Bush declared the preservation of American core values, global support of free and open societies, and preemptive wars against terrorist groups and states within the "axis of evil" as the major points of the post-9/11 foreign policy of the United States. Taking action on that foreign policy, the United States waged a war against terrorism which initiated the invasion of Afghanistan to bring justice to al Qaeda for their terrorist attacks, remove the Taliban regime that supported al Qaeda and their declaration of holy war against America, and establish peace and democracy i...

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Foreign powers were very important in sustaining the civil war. Eventually, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the US provided money, weapons, and military training to a group called the Taliban. ... By then, he had been expelled from Saudi Arabia and was traveling to various locations, planning ways to get American military troops out of his country. ... I have given three examples of instances that US foreign policy could and should have been wiser. ... Our foreign policy has been short-sited. ...

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Recent military action in the Middle East has left a country in total chaos, and total anarchy has resulted from the ousting of tyrant-dictator Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. ... The United States could use its" recent military victory to solve all of the problems now facing the Middle East and acquire a profitable new investment at the same time. ... Not only would The Sandy State provide an increased GDP, but it would also remove our dependence on foreign oil. ... Texas Two would also allow for the Clinton-size military cuts seen in the 1990s, only this time with justified explanations, ...

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When Barack Obama steps into his new job, he inherits a mountain of challenges both domestic and foreign. ... Because of that, it is likely that Obama's approach to things like the United States" military presence in countries like Iraq or Afghanistan will undergo quite a change, as will the "if you aren't with us you"re against us" mentality that seemed to percolate through the Bush administration's agenda. ... That would mean that diplomacy is the rule and military action the exception. ...

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Iraq has a military regime that needed to be over thrown. ... This is were i think that we as a country have made the biggest mistake, entering a foreign country with a belief that we will find something and coming up with nothing. ... The last thing that i would like to say that america and the other contributing countries did right was ousting the military regime in iraq and ousting saddam and capturing him . ... We took them out of the military's grip. ...

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We definitely need a change in our home and foreign policies and therefore it is very important who will be chosen to be our next president. ... Further more he will work to expand equal rights to same-sex couples and ban workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation, strengthen federal protections against anti-gay violence, give federal employees the right to name same-sex partners as beneficiaries, remove bias from our immigration laws, and end the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell- policy. ... In addition, a major issue that Dean will fight for to change is our foreign...

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The War Against Iraq Plato once said, "When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader." ... In a dossier presented by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw in December of 2002, Saddam is said to have masterminded "the widespread and systematic torture of his political opponents and other citizens to hold on to power". ... According to recent finding by U.S. military forces in Iraq, food from the Oil for food program was not given to I...

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" Following Congress' implementation of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 - habeas corpus petitions weren't to be considered by United States Federal Courts (CITATION 13). ... " Scalia said "for the first time in our Nation's history, the Court confers a constitutional right to habeas corpus on alien enemies detained abroad by our military forces in the course of an ongoing war" (CITATION 15). ... When the Bush Administration made the unilateral decision to suspend habeas corpus for enemy combatants, they were given a practical blank check from the legi...

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The American military must find a safer way to conduct operations in post-war Iraq. ... The most obvious solution is what New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman has called the "More, Better, Faster Method," and calls for a rapid-fire training of more Iraqi police and better training of the Iraqi military. ... As Michael Mandelbaum, the Johns Hopkins foreign affairs expert, notes, "Iraq needs an army that is big enough to deter Iran and yet not so big that it could be used to smother Iraqi democracy and threaten the whole neighborhood, the way Saddam's huge army did." ...

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S. military in January of 1999. ... That tragic day should have taught us that we, the U.S., cannot afford to ignore the truth about our use of unprecedented military power to inflict harm on others (www.nomorevictims.org/Letter.html). ... This would result in the U.S. policy being violated against using military forces. I believe we should not go to war against a foreign country that has not threatened or attacked us. ... According to Ex-Marine and former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter, Iraq presented "absolutely nothing" of military threat (www.commondreams.org). ...

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The group RUPE believes that the invasion of Iraq is a hopeless bet by a division of American capital to protect their grasp on power that is handled by the intention to halt economic crisis through military means. ... Lawrence has also written about the foreign policy and international affairs of the United States for numerous well known publications such as the Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. ... Kristol also served as a foreign policy advisor for Senator John McCain's presidential campaign. ... The Bush Doctrine reserves the right to bring about-whether through diplomatic ...

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President Bush tried to skirt around the issue by talking about the need for more jobs and the dependence we have on foreign oil. ... Bush wants put money into the military now; to protect America from terrorism and to create our sense of peace throughout the world. ...

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Sanctions resumed with increased ferocity during the Reagan administration, with extensive sanctions including even items which can be adapted for military purposes, such as scuba gear. ... The Clinton administration also passed the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act 1996, aiming to press foreign companies to join the US in boycotting Iran's oil and gas industry. ... The chosen path to a solution for Iranian/Western tensions have successfully diminished the threat posed to World Order, and have done so in a virtually peaceful way without military action. ... This was done peacefully, conformin...

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Persian Gulf War- August 2, 1990 On August 2nd, 1990, Iraqi military forces invaded and occupied the small Arab state of Kuwait. ... He helped fund the Islamic foreign legion, and he learned how to guerrilla fight in wars. ... In 1998, Bush wrote " A World Transformed", a book written for foreign policy as president. ... The worlds mightiest military is on the move in Afghanistan. ...

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America's foreign policy concerning Israel and Palestine is said to be one of the main reasons. ... The terrorist destroyed two of America's most famous symbols, known all around the world: the Pentagon as a symbol of inner security and military power, and the World Trade Center as a symbol of successful economy. ...

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And obviously with our high tech weaponry (laser guided bombs that fall through skylights and cruise missiles that can fly into windows) we will obviously take every possible measure to restrict the loss of non-military personnel. ... Unfortunately the only way some of you will "get it" is to have your water supplies filled with weapons grade Anthrax by a foreign exchange student. ...

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Named Operation Just Cause, the United States military campaign was condemned throughout the region as a violation of Panama's sovereignty and their right as a nation to determine who was legitimately in charge. ... This military action was an obvious threat to the self-government of Panama. ... Next a military coup was tried and failed. ... I was in the military when we invaded Iraq in the 1990's. ... The U.S. military is in my opinion terrorizing Iraq now in the name of Human Rights. ...

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"The purpose of British troops in Iraq is to discover and destroy any weapons of mass destruction," said the defence minister, Geoffrey Hoon, regarding the deployment of troops to the Gulf in coalition with American forces. The consequential expulsion of the regime of Saddam Hussein has, no doubt, ...

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The fact that the global peace movement should be referred to with a term usually reserved for geopolitical bodies with massive economic, political and military resources like the USA is evidence of the massive support that it has been afforded. ... Men, women and children representing no other social group than society itself chose to attend to demonstrate their shared antipathy not only to the war in Iraq, but to a whole host of other American foreign policies that they are in disagreement with. ...

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After he passed away, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference helped for Congress to come up with the Foreign Intelligence and Surveillance Act. ... Al Gore, in the book Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Political Issues, expresses that Congress didn't authorized the addition of the Use of Military Force, and that the administration did looked for other routes to have the correct wording inserted, but Congress didn't agreed either. ...

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