He decided to take out the governments that were sponsoring terrorism and terrorist organizations. ... Saddam Hussein's Baath party have ruled and controlled Iraq's vast resources by subjugating its citizens, as well as fellow government officials, to extreme, and often fatal forms of intimidation, terror, and fear. ... To control Iraq, Saddam used fear as a means to keep his government in check, the same type of terror he imposed on Iraq's populace. ... A 1992 U.S. government report estimates that Iraqi forces executed or tortured to death over 1,000 Kuwaitis during the bri...

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It is obvious that a realist position must be taken against Iraq, because the pluralist position is insufficient. ... As John Locke discusses in his Two Treatises of Government (1690), a representative government should represent the individual rights of the people (Locke). Conferring with the multiple actors would only lead to undermining the existence of self interest, an idea on which Locke based his ideas in the form of a representative government. One can see why the concept of self interest is important as Iraq is withholding weapons of mass destruction. ... This was the third agreeme...

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Landis in Introducing Global Issues, "when the Indian government detonated its first nuclear explosion in 1974, it symbolically ended the monopoly on nuclear systems held by the great powers. ... Rogue states like Iraq and North Korea are perfect examples of threats to global security. ... After the invasion of Iraq in the Gulf War in 1991, weapons proliferation in Iraq was seen as a direct threat to global security by the United Nations. ... However Iraq did not comply with these resolutions and until last year saw no consequence of their non-compliance. ... However, I do feel that our go...

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1.0 Introduction The international security has been shifted by the tectonic geopolitical role of cold war. The traditional definition is no longer sufficient to satisfy what constitute international security in the modern world full of security challenges and threat. However, some critics have arg...

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Chemical and biological weapons now more than ever a growing concern for the global community, this is demonstrated by the fact that President W Bush and the allies stated one of their prime objectives for going into Iraq was to find and seize weapons of mass destruction and the factories they were being made in. ... For instance, if India does not adhere, the government keeps on testing; Pakistan would match test for test. ... If a radical group with a hatred of the Indian government were to take power, an all-out war would be imminent, possibly nuclear. ... There are definite fears throughou...

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The ambiguity of this issue is widespread throughout the American government. ... After experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan in which bunkers sunk deep into the ground were discovered with valuable military assets, this administration has deemed it necessary to match our military's ability to cause destruction with our oppositions ability to hide. ... Suppose that "misplaced- warhead were actually stolen, like so many movies proffer, and sold to what the American government refers to as a "rogue state-, or worse, a terrorist cell. ...

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