... , they may have used them or let terrorist use them against other countries. A nuclear or chemical attack anywhere in the world could start a war that would have disastrous results. On the other hand those who oppose the war have legitimate opinions. Those Americans who remember the Vietnam and Korean wars have not forgotten. Thousands of soldier's lives were lost in what seems to have been pointless battles. No ... Americans really want the repeat of either war or the uncertainty that comes with war. Additionally, the lives of thousands of Iraqi men, women, and children were put ... ...

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... blamed for turning the American public against the Vietnam War. Vietnam was often described as the first television war since Television only played a minor role in the Korean War. It was the first war to gain that much media coverage. The media was blamed for America losing Vietnam. Ever since the Vietnam War the American military journalists or the media have been stuffed with anti-media cant designed to prove that the press lost the war. The public was ... it would have been without the war coverage. The media reported what the Iraqi government did and said during the Iraqi war all t...

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... with them will not only help establish America's position in the world and its chances of winning the war on terrorism, but could also prove to be the biggest single factor in determining whether Mr Bush wins a second term in office. In 2003, the Bush administration's posture in the world, demonstrated by the decision to invade Iraq and topple Saddam Hussein, was characterised ... scheme aimed at establishing a democratic Iraq and remaking the entire Middle East. These days, President Bush and his aides seem to be advancing policies that run contrary to that imperial project. Washington...

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... education, wealth, race and gender decided who got drafted. The tone among those students is that of fear, anger and disappointment as they focus on the many double standards of the draft and its unfairness to minorities. Many polls show that the majority of African Americans or minorities oppose the war. However, should the draft be reinstated, it is most likely that minorities ... would be the majority of those drafted. "Its hypocritical!" is what one JCSU sophomore ... want to fight," said Lane. He believes it is not the numbers but the conviction of the heart that will make the loud...

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... provide an economic stimulus and lead to increased growth. But the stimulus resulting from increased spending is far more than offset by the negative effects of war on the economy (e.g. uncertainty, loss of business and consumer confidence, supply shocks). The stimulus effect dominated and led to expansion after the onset of World War II and the Korean war because the additional spending was very large relative to GDP, more concretely speaking it ... was more than 50 percent of GDP for WWII and 8 percent for Korea ( "The economic costs of a war in Iraq:The negative ... ...

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... been struck by fundamental changes: from the imperial China to the communist China, the Vietnam war, the Korean war, the independence of India, the Iran Iraq war, the Gulf war, etc. Economy plays the most important role or is the main criteria in a country's prestige and power; economically strong states started to have more power on international affairs. Such strength of some countries has led them to interpret the term globalization as their right to interfere ... with weaker states' domestic affairs. The most recent ... ...

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