Iraq was allowed to sell $2bn of oil every six months to buy food and medicine. ... Aid agencies argued Iraq should be allowed to sell more oil in order to be able to buy more humanitarian supplies. The UN Secretary Kofi Annan supported the call and Iraq was given permission to sell $5.2bn of oil every six months. Officials, opposed the Oil-For-Food Programme and claimed that it was an obstacle for international oil business. ... On the one side there were the UK and the US who firmly insisted that there should be an effective weapons inspection process. ...

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President Bill Clinton expanded US sanctioning of Iran, banning all US participation in the Iranian oil and gas industry, preventing a $1 billion deal between a U.S oil company and Iran. 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. ... This prompted a tightening of Nuclear restrictions by the UN and accusations from the US that Iran was attempting to construct Weapons of Mass Destruction. ... Though these restrictions proved difficult to enforce due to fringe dealin...

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Korea dramatically raised up when it was brought to public that North Korea had nuclear weapons and they are willing to use them if US will threaten their country or block their trade with others. ... Invasion was the result of Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's violations on weapons of mass destruction. Hussein kept very dangerous weapons and also made chemical weapons that are totally banned by every government. President Bush gave him time to destroy the weapons, but Hussein tried to cover it up and waste time. ... A lot of Americans started to hate President Bush, because they think tha...

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This was one of the earliest uses of biological agents as a weapon of terrorism. Smallpox has been used on several occasions as a biological weapon. ... According to Dave Williams, components of the World Trade Center bomb included ammonium nitrate and fuel oil, which forms a blasting agent. ...

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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. ... Russia is obeying an embargo with Iraq, but still has economic interests, due to the large amount of oil smuggling that goes on between the countries. ...

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"For" Sanctions The supporters of continued military presence and the application of sanctions against Saddam Hussein have argued that Iraq continues to be a hostile country that currently controls a significant body of oil wealth and natural resources that define it as a formidable enemy (Ya'ari 68). ... The support for military interventions as well as economic sanctions stem from a preventative thread based in the desire reduce the leaders capacity to do harm, either in the form of the use of nuclear weapons or through actions that would result in diminishing availability an...

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Saudi, Kuwait and Egypt have our oil and Israel has hundreds of rich and influential American Jews! ... The U.S. has been too zealous in this war: I remember a while ago the States bombed a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan that was making AIDS vaccines because they thought it was developing chemical weapons for terrorist use! ...

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The U.N. aims to put an end to the billions of dollars spent on destructive weapons that much of this violent world creates every day. The statistics that put this statement into perspective are rather disturbing: "The weapons industry is the world's number-two industry, after oil. ... The $100 billion or so spent on weapons by developing countries is three times what it would have cost to provide essential health care, medicines, vaccinations, clean water, and sanitation for all."" ...

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