President Bush sent our armed forces overseas to overthrow Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq. ... The UN than placed Iraq under sanctions, while successful at first, the sanctions were "killing about 36,000 Iraqis a year, 24,000 of them children under the age of 5." (Friedman) This killed more Iraqis in a month than one week of war did. ... Saddam's government operated using a secret police that would execute anyone suspected of challenging him. ... By the time Iraq is fully reconstructed, people will not be asking, "Why did we do this?"...

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The USA Cannot Be Justified in Iraqi War O the morning of March, 20, 2003, Iraqi war wxploded with the first military bombardment of American military in Baghdad. ... However, the facts in post-war Iraq tell us that either is there liberation for Iraqi people, nor have the weapons of mass destruction ever been found. ... Iraqi people have never been liverated by the US. ... (Bush) In fact, what Iraqi people faced was horror and aggression. ... Nevertheless, mearly two months into the area, a search of more than 80% likely hiding places identifyed by the US turned up no WMDs ( US government li...

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The world had to be persuaded that Iraq posed a real and imminent threat to the world security. ... Together, they demanded the disarmament of Iraq otherwise the president of the United States would not hesitate to unleash the most powerful army in the world on Iraq. ... However, the occupation of Iraq continues and the casualties on both sides continue to mount. ... As of yet there have been no Weapons of Mass Destruction uncovered, confirming that there was not enough evidence presented by our government to stage the attack against Iraq. It has also become evident that many Iraqi civilians ...

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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 possible expansion of GM crops in the UK has resulted in several factions of independent farmers and non-governmental institutions, Greenpeace for example, organising their own forms of protest. ... In much the same way, the protest against war in Iraq has had little direct success. ... It might be reasonable to suggest that core government policy of the kind that entails international co-operation and implications are much more difficult to alter. It soon became clear with the invasion of Iraq that the plans had been premeditated by the coalition's American leadership for quite some ...

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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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They turned to media outlets such as television and newspapers to give them information about the War in Iraq that had started in 2003. ... Propaganda by definition is: "ideas or statements that are often false or exaggerated and that are spread in order to help a cause, a political leader, a government, etc.. ... Another claim from him came in the form of a declaration to a free Iraq, liberating it from the "evil dictator". ... Another quote from the book suggests that the Iraqis seemed fully aware of America's true motives: "Only 5 percent of Iraqis surveyed thought that the United Stat...

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His murderous regime has denied the Iraqi people a democratic government, and crushed those who fought to get one. ... Iraqi militia then attempted to assassinate George Bush Snr. in 1993. ... Some question what gives the west, in particular America, the right to "police" the rest of the world and to attempt to control governments in other far-off countries. ... America also removed Iraq from its" list of "terrorist-sponsoring nations" during the Iraq-Iran war. ... They even supplied the Iraqi regime with arms to ensure the defeat of the Iranians. ...

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Like most other libertarians, I want a foreign policy of peace, free trade, and free of interference from the government. ... Bush's spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. ... I do not think that we should have President Bush making all the decisions about invading Iraq and Afghanistan, and even allotting millions and millions of our tax dollars for the reconstruction and rehabilitation of the two countries. ... Life, liberty, and property, our Natural Rights, should allow us to do as we please without the government's interference. ... As a libertarian, I agree with the conse...

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For instance the Iraq war was based on various deceptions, our former 43rd President George W. Bush stated to the nation the reason we were invading Iraq was due to the possibility that Iraq might have and employ weapons of mass destruction other reasons included were human rights abuse and probably the second highest contributing factor was to employ democracy. On October 11, 2002 it was decided that the United States had legal justification to invade Iraq and on March 20, 2003 the war in Iraq officially began. ... In a secret meeting that took place on July 23, 2002 the British government...

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President-elect Obama will have to make important - and difficult - decisions about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, decisions that will affect the more than 180,000 military personnel stationed in this two countries. It is well known that Obama has a longstanding opposition to the war in Iraq, and he has vowed to set up a timetable to withdraw the troops. ... Historically, transitions in the American government, when the government is assumed to be at its weakest, have been prime striking moments for terrorists to launch attacks. ... It is because of these realities that a new law was pas...

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Harvey argues that a sound structure must be put in place by governmental forces to maximize the collective influence. ... David Harvey, who focuses on the role of government in freeing individuals, would disagree with both Friedman and Appiah, likely arguing that their ideological views on globalization ignore the function of government, whose role is utterly necessary in maximizing individual potential and caring for the less independently competent. ... When Iraq, a less competent country in the eyes of America, was floundering after the US invasion, the US stepped in to take control. The B...

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Republicans feel that a proper role for the government is to regulate and oversee morality. Conservative republicans feel punishing people for immoral acts is proper government function. ... The government should provide market-based incentives to develop the technologies needed to meet environmental standards. ... Expanding the war against terrorism to Iraq seems to be of some concern. 5According to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, "I have not seen any evidence linking Iraq to what happened on Sept. 11." Basically, he insists that the United States should not wage war against Iraq...

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A major point of debate, one which is even more fascinating based on today's events, was the issue of Iraq. ... President Bush also rejected this idea, feeling that Rumsfeld and others in his cabinet who also served in his father's administration may be driven by revenge to strike out at Iraq. ... Tommy Franks finally showed that an Iraqi strike was not feasible at the time, given the amount of buildup necessary to launch the Afghani war. ... As the Taliban began to topple, war cabinet members again turned to the problem of Iraq, even though many of al Qaeda's officers, i...

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Once Mussolini and his government gained power, they yearned for expansion outside the political sphere and wanted a totalitarian regime to control all aspects of life. ... The bloodshed caused by the fascist government, is a direct result of ultra-nationalism, and a militaristic leader who would sacrifice his own people for the good of the nation. ... Bush's recent rationalizations for preemptively attacking other cultures, such as Iraq. ... To take away the freedom of the Iraqi people is hypocritical on his part. Amendment I in the American Bill of Rights states that, "Congress shall ma...

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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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To them, big government is wasteful and an obstacle to getting things done. One of the Republican Party's platforms is to reform the government. "We look to government " local, state, federal " for the things government must do, but we believe those duties can be carried out more efficiently and at less cost. ... The impact of the government's economic policies trickle down to the military also. ... Republican presidents have been responsible for many of the conflicts the United States has been involved in, including the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the Iraq Wars and the Afgh...

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To them, big government is wasteful and an obstacle to getting things done. One of the Republican Party's platforms is to reform the government. "We look to government " local, state, federal " for the things government must do, but we believe those duties can be carried out more efficiently and at less cost. ... The impact of the government's economic policies trickle down to the military also. ... Republican presidents have been responsible for many of the conflicts the United States has been involved in, including the Korean and Vietnam Wars, the Iraq Wars and the Afgh...

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Bush, the country was attacked by Islamic terrorists on September11th, leading to the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan-two wars that would indebt the country and last throughout the duration of the decade. ... Many critics, in fact, point to some of the blunders of these policies-such as Guantanamo Bay and the Iraq War-as severe violations of human rights. ... In reality, the law gave the US government new powers to monitor and spy on communications, detains immigrants indefinitely, and access financial records. ... In doing so, Ishay presents a bleak world over government involvement, where ...

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We went to war with Iraq without strong evidence of Iraq's connection to the Al-Qaida terror network. ... The federal government has promised to pay 40% of the cost of special education, but presently pays less than 17 percent. ... Dean opposed President Bush's war in Iraq from the beginning. ...

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At the same time that Bush's inaugural address appeared to reject the idea of an aggressive central government that acted on behalf of its people, he also said that public trust in the government is a major component of a civilized nation. ... This certainly was not the case, for example, following the invasion of Iraq, which certainly created anything but a beautiful garden. ... This was played out in both the war in Iraq as well is the conflict in Afghanistan. ...

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