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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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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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 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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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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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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