Saddam was known as an evil dictator by his people, and it was his corrupt government that ultimately caused his downfall. ... The United States have been helping to rebuilt the government of Iraq since taking control and eventually plan on leaving after a strong democratic government is in place. ... This country was Iraq. ... Iraq has long been a source for cheap oil. ... It would then be in the best interest of the United States to invade Iraq, take Saddam out of power, destroy these weapons of mass destruction and install a successful democratic government that will lead Iraq into thi...

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Americans believe in having freedom, but yet, most do not want our military to go to Iraq and fight for the Iraq people, so they have freedom as well. ... Many Americans believe we should pull our troops out of Iraq, because we are not accomplishing what we want, Iraqi freedom bye the military troops being in Iraq. Some also believe that our military troops are being put in danger while in Iraq. ... Our government decided that if we could get Iraqi leader Jadam Hussein, then the Iraq people could become free; like the United States. This is why we are calling this war "Iraqi Freedom." ...

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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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Why War on Iraq? This assignment has strengthened and given support to my stance against the war in Iraq. ... I had a special disregard for the politics with Iraq. ... The biggest insight I have been given is into the character of the United States government, both in its current administration, and in its past. ... The Iran-Iraq war was among the last breaths of a U.S. ...

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Specifically, the blunders that happened during the occupation of Iraq by the United States in 2004 and how the country struggled to secure Iraq and rebuild their government. ... On the other, Bremer's order of the dissolution of the Iraqi army, which pushed some Iraqis toward violent resistance. ... In the end it was decided that a new government with a prime minister chosen by the Bush administration and a cabinet composed by competent and respected Iraqi ministers. ... After the people of Iraq were informed and understand enough, a new system would have been easily implemented in the ...

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"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. ... "Behind the Invasion of Iraq " explains how the real reasons for war in Iraq ties in with the United States economic and political interests. ... William Kristol taught political philosophy and American politics at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. ... To Syria alone, Baghdad is smuggling something like 200,000 barrels of oil per day. "2 Former chief weapons inspector Richard Butler...

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All that this indicates is that we simply do not know whether Iraq has developed WMD, whether it will, or when. ... The U.S. supported Iraq in its war against Iran, and turned a blind eye to use of chemical weapons. ... These statements fail in proving what there supposed to, that the threat from Iraq is; concrete, specific, and directed against the U.S. or any U.S. allies. The administration attempts to prove the threat from Iraq as critical; vital interest face unacceptable harm and danger by repeatedly invoking the memory of 9/11, the war on terrorism, the right of the American people t...

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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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Controversy can be found all over the news, and our government is usually right in the heat of this. Sunday's speech by president Bush on our position in Iraq was no exception. ... Or, is it because he does not agree with way we are going about rebuilding Iraq? ... He could be speaking about the anti-war groups or even the governments of our enemies. ... This information builds on the facts that we have learned throughout the article and gives us more of a sense of what the government is doing to answer the questions of the skeptics. ...

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The war in Iraq has been treated like this. Bush has been caring for this conundrum in irresponsible ways such as not creating an efficient Iraqi government, not showing a benevolent presence by giving more responsibility to the people, and neglecting the fact that he is not on the right road of strengthening security for the people of Iraq. ... The situation in Iraq is the way it is because of neglect and mismanagement in care. ... Sinon's sins resemble the way Bush and his administration justified the war in Iraq. ... This lie was what really fueled the justification for the war in Ir...

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In chapters 5 and 6, we see just how long the Bush administration has planned for the current war in Iraq - since 9/11. ... Even now that U.S. forces have infiltrated many facilities in Iraq, no WMDs have been found. Iraq has very little means to be a terrorist state, but it's a very bad place to be a citizen while Saddam's in power. ... One might wonder how Operation Iraqi Freedom is charitable to the Iraqi people if so many are dying in the crossfire - our hope is that the sooner a new government is instituted in Iraq, the better, even at the cost of a few lives if it means impr...

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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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He writes about the future of Iraq after the invasion is over. He states that the American government is not as interested in liberating the Iraqi people as it is in getting oil and trade. He goes on to write that the Iraqi people have every right to be mistrustful of the current foreign invasion because in the past they have had nothing but bad experiences with America and Britain in the past. ...

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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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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 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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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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