Instead, nine years later, sanctions remain in place because Iraq has decided to hide weapons and major components for these programs, secretly destroy older and less capable weapons, and give UN inspectors fraudulent declarations to make weapons and equipment that are still hidden. ... And containment is not possible when dictators obtain weapons of mass destruction and are prepared to share them with terrorists. ... I would like to share some words of inspiration by Vice President Richard Cheney. ...

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"More than a generation ago, secret intelligence suggested that political unrest in Cuba would produce armed support against Fidel Castro, an earlier object of regime change. ... The current war with Iraq has also had its share of faulty intelligence. ... But in October the CIA Director, George Tenet, suggested that Iraq did not pose an immediate threat to the United States and was unlikely to share its weapons with terrorists " unless provoked by an invasion."" ...

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Later in 1924, France wanted to get into producing oil so they developed the Compagnie Francaise des Petroles to develop it's share of Mesopotamia. During this period, Germany was stripped of all oil right and the three main super powers, who came out of Word War I victorious, shared out Iraqi oil amongst themselves. ... This gave a 23.75 percent share in holdings of the Iraq Petroleum Company to American companies. ... The United States decided to supply the Iraqis with intelligence, and committed the US Navy to safeguarding the flow of oil out of (and the flow of money and arms into...

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I wanted to look for secrets and other bits of information that had been leaked through the system in the past. ... Watkins shared is beliefs on the troops being sent all around the world and stated that "If the American forces were never sent to other countries for aid and order, this world would be filled with much tyranny and chaos." ...

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The fact was that at exactly the moment it invaded Panama because of its outrage over Noriega's abuses of human rights, the Bush administration announced new high-technology sales to China, noting that $300 million in business for US firms was at stake and that contacts had secretly resumed a few weeks after the Tiananmen Square massacre. ...

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