The United States government stated the reasons why troops were being sent into Iraq at the beginning of the conflict. ... The people of the U.S did not know was that the U.S. sold the weapons to the Iraqi government. Therefore, if the Iraqi government was giving weapons to the cause of bin Laden, the U.S. was also giving to the cause. ... These citizens felt this way because the government blew the situation in Iraq out of proportion. ... In conclusion, the Iraq conflict was filled with deception of the U.S. citizens by the government. ...

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After the 9/11 attacks, the United States along side with its allies decided to hunt down those responsible for this aggression, and also destroy the bases and network of al-Qaeda and thus defeat terrorism in the world, installing democracy in both Iraq and Afghanistan. In the weeks following the attacks, the Bush administration launched series of energetic intelligence operations and military interventions which firstly began with the invasion of Afghanistan, in a mission called "Enduring Freedom", in October 2001 with the overthrow of the Taliban government and the start of the "War o...

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Although the al Qaeda terrorists weren't captured, the United States was now able to convert Afghanistan into a friendlier democratic government, "complete with a constitution, elected leaders, and a legal system that protected human rights."3 Yet, a central government couldn't survive in Afghanistan without American and British forces since the population identified more closely with local politics than the national government the United States wanted to establish, leading the occupation of Afghanistan and the United States' goals to be more long term than expected. ...

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Bush also wants to free the Iraqi people from Saddam's reign of chaos. ... Not all of his moves, in my opinion, were the best ones, but taking a swift approach by trying to eliminate the "big dogs" in Iraq's government would be a huge bonus should it be successful. By eliminating them, the Iraqi government and its entire military would probably not fight and without fighting nobody would have to die. ... Not all of his moves, in my opinion, were the best ones, but taking a swift approach by trying to eliminate the "big dogs" in Iraq's government would be a huge bonus should it b...

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Battlefield Iraq In the summer of 2002, President Bush declared that the U.S. was going to disarm Iraq through warfare. ... Bush of "preemption," which declares that the United States has the right to invade sovereign countries and overthrow their governments if they are seen as hostile to U.S. interests. ... In addition, none of the hijackers were Iraqi, no major figure in Al Qaeda is Iraqi, and no funds to Al Qaeda have been traced to Iraq ("Stopping Al Qaeda"). ... The other justification was Iraq's possession of WMDs. ... War on Iraq). ...

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The party controls the present in a government sense so it should therefore be able to control the past, which it does. ... In essence, 1984 is similar to today's government. ... Today, we are at war with Iraq, and had been at war with them for over a year. ... Of course, the government also says that we are not at war with Iraq, we are "liberating them", helping them out. ... In conclusion, 1984 is similar to our government today. ...

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The American government didn't care about the conflict between the civilians and the Taliban militia in Afghanistan, after the Soviet Union's war. ... More recently the United States has been willing to kick invaders out of Kuwait, to strike at ruthless States like Libya and Iraq. Moreover, to go on trying to contain them with sanctions and, in Iraq's case, with almost incessant bombardment. ... The American government should put a real effort, to help the two countries to reach a peace agreement. "Stop the Bombing", should be the American government principle priority, this w...

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The American government was one of the Taliban's supporters. ... During the 1990's Gulf War, Bin Laden became critical of Saudi Arabia, because he felt that they should fight themselves rather than allowing the Americans to fight Iraq. ... Right now, we want to attack Iraq to displace Saddam Hussein, allegedly because he has weapons of mass destruction. ... When the Iran-Iraq War ended, Saddam Hussein killed many of his own people with his terrible weapons. ... I just wish that our government would learn from its mistakes. ...

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Is it the Iraq? ... It makes people feel uncomfortable and more emotionally involved when he used the term "war on terror" instead of "war in Iraq". ... The fact is both the U.S. military and the government haven't found any evidence to support that. ... There are also some mysterious labs were found in Iraq which the U.S. officials called "the strongest evidence yet". Actually they could not proof that those trucks and trailers were Iraq's secret labs for biological or chemical weapon development. ...

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The dominant discourse in this article is the killing of Iraqi citizens by the U.S. ... The other voice heard is that of the US causing unnecessary death and destruction in Iraq. There are a small number of marginal voices heard in the articles, such as the police commander Mohammad Hashim who blames the attacks on "The enemies of the government," referring to the Taliban militants. ... He appears to be wearing the traditional Iraq clothing. Thus immediately gives the impression that he is showing the Iraq people that he is one of them and that they should not give up, but they should f...

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OIL prices, its this and much more that causes me to hate the american government as much as i do! ... They attack for fabricated reasons, your current war on Iraq is nothing more then a war over Oil prices, bush wants them down so he bullys the Iraqis, Basicly stating that if you don't obey me and lower the oil prices i'll attack and take over, i'm the big wolf and you know that i have the troops technoligy and weapons to whipe your littile country off the map. ...

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The goal of Al-Qa"ida is to unite all Muslims under one government that follows the ways of Caliphs. ... He has stated that the only way to unite all Muslims under one government is to use force. ... They were reluctant to help the United States in their war against terrorism and they were very against helping the United States fight Iraq. ... France has provided a little money to help rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan, but it does not even make a dent in the amount of money that is needed. France needs to see some evidence that Iraq was harboring terrorists and did have weapons of mass destruc...

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The controversy in this movie has greatly influenced the view of American society towards their government and the military efforts of war. ... The movie even features unseen footage of American soldiers humiliating Iraqi soldiers as well as mothers (American and Iraqi) grieving over lost members of their families. ... Moore disapproves of the war in Iraq arguing that they went to war with a country that had never attacked the United States and had not proven to be linked to 9/11 attacks. ... But Moore said he was reporting on demoralization, not causing it: "This film is full of American tr...

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I do believe that the United States government is using terrorist threats as propaganda to start a war much like they used propaganda in World War II. ... These are some of Bush's reasons for launching war on Iraq. ... On another note I also believe that the government is trying to avoid another 9/11, where they had information concerning the attack before hand and didn't do anything to stop it. ...

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The effects led to the invasion of two nations, Iraq and Afghanistan and meant the beginning of the global war on terrorism. ... This meant that governments, corporations and individuals had to change their lifestyle and how they behaved. ... With the Bush Administration framing the attacks as thus, they had set the grounds for attacking Afghanistan and Iraq. ... For instance, one of the respondents said, "I think it was a terrorist behavior when the American air-fighters and soldiers dropped bombs onto other countries (e.g., Afghanistan, Iraq, or Yugoslavia)" (Lee, Cotati and Yan, ...

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In a massive attack, the Talibans were defeated and destroyed and a new government came to control Afghanistan. Similarly America attacked Iraq as President Saddam himself appeared to be a big Indian Parliament House on December 13, 2001 even when the Parliament was in session. ...

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Evil in the past few years have led from terrorism on the American homeland, all the way to Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, and spreading to North-Western Asia. ... Bush, for he has sacrificed the countries children for the good of man kind when no weapons of mass destruction or even a trace of them were present in Iraq, George is merely trying to finish what his father started ten years ago. In the past, evil was labeled communism, even though no such type of government has ever been established in the world. ...

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As American citizens we have the right to expect that our government will do all in their power to protect us from foreign and domestic attacks. ... In doing so, the U.S. shall pursue vigorously efforts to deter and preempt, apprehend and prosecute, or assist other governments to prosecute, individuals who perpetrate or plan to perpetrate such attacks." ... And in doing so he and his administration plans to override the Iraqi, Afghani, and other terrorist regimes to replace it with a U.S. influenced government. ... It can be infered that if we help the people of Afghanistan overthrow the ...

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Ironically the fight to keep the Soviets from taking control of Afghanistan was funded by the United States and had support from the governments of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. ... Osama was highly insulted that the Saudi government would let non-believers into the birthplace of Islam. ... Because of Osama's anti-government activities Saudi Arabia expelled him from their country in 1991. ... Osama also took responsibility for killing U.S. soldiers in Somalia and on the World Trade Center attacks that took place in 1993 killing six and injuring more than a thousand people After taking resp...

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He tells the listener that the government downplays historic facts, saying "The Us helped the 3rd Reich", he classifies Bin Laden and George Bush as part of the same seven-headed dragon. ... He talks about Cheney's Habilutron contracts, what they have to do with building future pipelines in Iraq, and accuses the president of being a puppet taking orders from a cell phone. ...

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Then addressed by members of our government along with Intel from our friends the national news reporters of America we find out that the final destinations of these planes were met indefinitely kamikaze pilots of the terrorist nature, sent to do one thing, and they did. ... Two towers down, one Pentagon turned Polygon, an economy on the rocks, a shaken government about to turn into Big Poppa Pump, and every American sleeping with both eyes open is how the day ended. ... The world shut down after that attack, as we watched the antics of the Arabians and Iraqi who delighted in the successful ...

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Secretary of State has designated seven governments as state sponsors of terrorism: Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. ... Tehran conducted 13 assassinations in 1997, the majority of which were carried out in northern Iraq against the regime's main opposition groups. ... The Sudanese Government supports terrorists by providing paramilitary training, indoctrinization, money, travel documents, safe passage, and refuge. ... The latest threat is the cyber terrorist, who can corrupt a governments computer system, steal money, and/or classified information while never leavi...

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Not long after the planes crashed into the buildings, the U.S. government knew who was behind the killing of thousands of American lives. ... His terrorist group Alkehda was funded heavily by a new radical government in Afghanistan called the Taliban. ... Did the government have the same ideas too. ... The U.S. government did bomb Afghanistan in 1998 after we found out that bin Laden destroyed our embassies, and killed 220 people. ... This reminds me of the issues that we had not to long ago with the war in Iraq. ...

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