In the year of 1977 the United States and Panama agreed on two new treaties to overlook those of the 1903 treaties about control of the Panama Canal. These treaties recognized Panamas control over the Canal Zone, and control of the Panama Canal itself. ... The Islamic revolution, which took place in Iran, created the first major foreign policy problem for Carter. ... Reagan changed the tone of United States foreign policy. Détente, which was a peaceful however strained policy of coexistence with the USSR, was de-emphasized, and the United States foreign policy was against all governmen...

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Foremost, the ongoing feud between the Sunni, Shia and Kurdish peoples in various regions throughout the country has played a major role in the government's ability to control Iraq. ... The current government is seen by many Iraqis as little more than puppet government controlled by the United States and its allies. ... Gaining control of their own nation and developing their own ideas of democracy will be a major hurdle for the people of Iraq to overcome. ... This creates a problem for the new Democratic government of Iraq because if they cannot either find a way for all of these diff...

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Many questions are asked: Why do other countries want to control Iraqi oil? ... Iraq was split up with Britain, the colonial suppressor of Iraq, controlling half of the Iraq, then France and the United States controlled a quarter each. ... Britain wanted to control Iraq to pad it's ever so precious gem: India. ... Policy makers definitely did not want Iran to emerge victorious. ... Thus, the policy that emerged was to support the pro-Western regimes in the region, bolster their defenses, and hope the combatants weakened each other to the point where neither would emerge from the war ...

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The UN and US policy toward Iraq was outlined in a number of UN resolutions and the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998. ... The inspections were evaded through all of Iraq's neighbors and allowed Saddam to be in control of a massive black market. ... In the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War, both policy tools seemed to be good appropriate avenues that the United States should have proceeded down. ...

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The UN and US policy toward Iraq was outlined in a number of UN resolutions and the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998. ... The inspections were evaded through all of Iraq's neighbors and allowed Saddam to be in control of a massive black market. ... In the immediate aftermath of the Gulf War, both policy tools seemed to be good appropriate avenues that the United States should have proceeded down. ...

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An Allied Control Commission, consisting of representatives of Iraq's liberators, America, Britain, and free Iraqis that should arrest Saddam's criminal henchman, establish just courts, and provide for local elections to a convention that would propose the structure of a new Iraqi state. ... Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, so they could take control of Kuwait's oil. ...

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His aim was apparently to take control Kuwait's oil reserves (despite its small size Kuwait is a huge oil producer; it has about 10 per cent of the world's oil reserves ). ... The USA ended her policy of accommodating Saddam Hussein, which had existed since the Iran-Iraq war. ... After establishing air superiority, coalition forces disabled Iraq's command and control centers, especially in Baghdad and Al Bashrah. ...

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Although the USSR had superior weapons and complete air control, the rebels successfully eluded them. The conflict largely settled into a stalemate, with Soviet and government forces controlling the urban areas, and the Afghan guerrillas operating fairly freely in mountainous rural regions. ...

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"The purpose of British troops in Iraq is to discover and destroy any weapons of mass destruction," said the defence minister, Geoffrey Hoon, regarding the deployment of troops to the Gulf in coalition with American forces. The consequential expulsion of the regime of Saddam Hussein has, no doubt, ...

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