Six months ahead of the 2003 invasion of Iraq‚ the United States had very little incisive evidence and relied greatly on analytic reviews and judgment in assessing what it knew about Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction and their WMD Programs. This is according to declassified U.S. intelligence report. The September 5‚ 2002 report from the Glen Shaffer‚ (which was initially classified as secret) showed the U.S. knew about Iraq’s internal expertise in building nuclear weapons but failed to mention
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United States most recent war? This war was called Operation Iraqi Freedom. Many people have family members that fought in this war‚ or maybe a neighbor. The Iraq war was started shortly after 9/11 when the United States felt that Iraq leader Saddam Hussein had weapons of Mass Destruction. (WMD’s) With the rumor that Iraq had WMD’s President Bush felt the US military had to go on the offense to assure the safety of the country. With that in mind I agree with going to war in Iraq. Also‚ Saddam Hussein
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humanity started in Iraq at the garden of creation. Just like the bible mentioned it Iraq is the irrefutable site of the Garden of Eden where humanity took birth. Iraq is a land located between two great rivers‚ the Euphrates and the Tigris. Strategically Iraq’s location in the Middle East is critical to the world of politics‚ sad to say always caught in the middle of some kind of conflicts. Its climate docile and calm‚ its natural resources depend immensely on nature. Although Iraq is the cradle of
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Upon marching into Iraq in 2003‚ American forces were tasked with deposing Saddam Hussein and imposing stability and security. The former was accomplished with stunning rapidity; the latter continues to elude Iraqis‚ regional interests‚ and the Western world almost fifteen years later. Why such chaos? Even the American “surge” of soldiers in 2007 did little to quell the violence. Ethnic conflict between the Kurds‚ Sunnis‚ and Shias‚ extant prior to American involvement‚ intensified post-invasion
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primary motivation behind their fight against ISIS. However‚ defeating ISIS in Iraq will only be possible if the government can successfully ameliorate the social‚ political‚ and economic discrepancies that plague the nation. This can be done through economic development through foreign investment‚ widespread social inclusion‚ and unity among the people (Al-Maliki 2014). As stated above‚ ISIS was able to form in Iraq due to the power vacuum created by the removal of all Sunni Muslims from the government
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War can be terrifying‚ and it leaves most soldiers traumatized. The military can train soldiers how to control their body and their thoughts during the battle so they and their comrades don ’t get killed. However‚ boot camp can only simulate so much. Post-Traumatic Stress Syndrome exists because of the gap between this simulation and reality. It is the after effects of experiencing war‚ or similar terrors. Most soldiers fall victim to PTSD‚ and though some handle it successfully‚ many do not
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The Syrian Civil War is an ongoing armed conflict between the Ba’ath Government and those who wants to overthrow it. It started as a reaction to the Arab Spring‚ a series of anti-government protests across the Arab world inspired by the fall of the Tunisian regime in early 2011. But at the root of the conflict was anger over unemployment‚ decades of dictatorship‚ corruption and state violence under of the Middle East’s most repressive regimes. Bashar al-Assad’s father‚ Hafez al-Assad who came from
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The customs of Iraq and the United States‚ or in more general terms the western world‚ have their differences. Elizabeth experienced trouble adjusting to the Iraqi culture‚ and many individuals in Iraq had trouble understanding the hers. Fatima‚ a woman of El Nahra‚ suffers as we all do‚ from ethnocentrism‚ believing that her culture is “the right one.” The first set of customs that Fatima believes are superior relate to marriage. In the United States‚ it is my opinion that marriages are seen as
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SOD McNamara and former SOD Donald Rumsfeld‚ while under Bush’s command. Many have argued that the connection of similar let downs have been revealed when looking at the stance and judgment calls made by McNamara during the Vietnam War and Rumsfeld during the Iraq War. McNamara and Rumsfeld both have similar characteristics‚ in terms of‚ stopping the fight against dictatorship. Both secretaries of defense were fighting in different periods of time‚ yet having such extraordinary parallels. These
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For a short period‚ Iraq was under the rule of Abd al-Karim Qasim who “implemented the progressive Personal Status Code in 1959: the code granted women equal inheritance rights‚ worked against polygamy and unilateral divorce‚ and made women’s consent to marriage a necessity” (Pollard 354). Iraqi women were in the forefront of the nationalist movement for independence hoping that by participating in the state’s independence‚ women would be granted equal rights during the process of state building
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