CASE STUDY #2 - GEORGE TENET AND THE LAST GREAT DAYS OF THE CIA DONNA HANKINS - PAS 301 NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY CASE STUDY #2 – GEORGE TENET AND THE LAST GREAT DAYS OF THE CIA The study of George Tenet’s actions leading up to the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan leaves little doubt about the dysfunction within our government from the appointment of officials to the decision making process itself. Tenet was appointed by President Clinton as Director of the Intelligence (DCI) in 1997
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marine[sic] division would spearhead the attack” (Myers 6). This quote is saying that the fourth marines and third infantry lead the invasion into Iraq. Walter Dean Myers wrote the book and it is called “Sunrise over Fallujah.” It is about a military unit before‚ during‚ and after the battle of Fallujah‚ the Iraqi war included the genocide of Saddam Hussein‚ invasion of Kuwait‚ WMD’s‚ the battle of Baghdad‚ and the battle for Fallujah. The war in Iraq all started because the Iraqi army went into
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The United States is known as one of the most powerful countries in the world‚ which can be something great for the nation but‚ it can also be the worst enemy for another country. With the power that the United States have‚ there can happen many things that are going to affect negatively to other countries. That was clearly demonstrated when the United States leaders decided to invade Iraq in 2003‚ Leader of the nation such as George W. Bush who was the President that time‚ he argued that there were
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drastically shaped and changed the way people live their everyday life in today’s world. Important people and events that contributed to and are responsible for the unfavorable change of the mid-20th Century are Charles Starkweather and the Bay of Pigs Invasion‚ becoming the first of their kinds. Each separately and significantly impacted the generation’s society of the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. Even though the 21st Century is in progress‚ the events and key people of earlier generations still impact
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the US-led invasion of Iraq on the Iraqi people? The war in Iraq was costly‚ highly opposed and in the end‚ quite disastrous. It caused a humanitarian crisis in Iraq; there were serious political consequences‚ economic consequences‚ and the destruction of Iraq’s cultural heritage and so it is difficult for anyone to justify whether or not the war was worth it. Humanitarian Crisis Figure A Iraqi Refugees in a UNHCR camp Source: ccun.org Accessed: 17/09/13 The US-led invasion of Iraq in
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Was the U.S Iraq and Afghanistan War Worth the Cost? Introduction The U.S led Iraq and Afghanistan wars have received praises and criticisms of different measures. The war was fought for almost a decade‚ starting back in 2003. In the case of Iraq war‚ the cause of the conflict was suspicion by the United States and United Kingdom that Iraq had in its possession Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) that it intended to use in case of war between nations. This was based on the past experience where Iraq
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given by Bruce W. Jentleson in his Book American Foreign Policy‚ it seems that the US national interest goal cannot be simultaneously satisfied in most of the cases. Iraq became a US threat in 1990 when former Iraqi dictator‚ Saddam Hussein‚ led the invasion of Kuwait. US‚ supported by the United Nations and many other countries‚ went to war for the first time against Iraq. The US troops expelled the Iraqi troops out of Kuwait and reestablished order in that country. This did not mean that the threat
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The Life of Saddam Hussein Saddam Hussein was born on April 28th 1937 in Al-Awja‚ a small Iraqi town. At a young age Hussain fled from his abusive father to live with his uncle who was a devoted Sunni Muslim. His uncle had Saddam attend a nationalist secondary school and after graduating Hussein studied law for three years but didn ’t earn a degree until he was older. At the age of 20 Hussein joined the Arab Ba’ath Socialist Party also known as ABSP. After receiving six months of jail time 5 years
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key rationale for the Iraq War.” This is the main theme of the paper and the authors express this throughout the paper in a fascinating‚ enthralling fashion. The previously supported neoconservative project has been fatally wounded through its invasion of Iraq. The Bush Doctrine does in fact “represent an abrupt and unprecedented shift in American foreign policy.” The United States of America had been the most influential nation in the entire world (“land of opportunity”)‚ with its huge military
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What was the role of oil in shaping post war worlds? ”If one commodity can claim credit for the startling advances seen in the world in the 20th century‚ in particular in developed industrialized countries‚ it was crude oil- soon to be dubbed ‘black gold’.” Oil became an influential substance in the post war times‚ economically and also in shaping countries’ foreign policies. Whichever countries controlled oil controlled much of the world’s policies. After the increase in industrialisation and
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