The Iran Iraq war officially began on Sept. 22‚ 1980‚ with an Iraqi land and air invasion of western Iran‚ although Iraq representatives to the UN maintained that Iran had been engaging in artillery attacks on Iraqi towns since Sept. 4. Iraqi president Saddam Husain claimed the war was actually a territorial dispute over the Shatt al Arab‚ a waterway that empties into the Persian Gulf and forms the boundary between Iran and Iraq. Iraq’s foreign minister‚ Sa’adoun Hammadi‚ stated to the UN Security
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sagepublications.com DOI: 10.1177/0022343304041777 ISSN 0022-3433 Ethics and Intervention: The ‘Humanitarian Exception’ and the Problem of Abuse in the Case of Iraq* ALEX J. BELL AMY School of Political Science and International Studies‚ University of Queensland This article investigates the ethics of intervention and explores the decision to invade Iraq. It begins by arguing that while positive international law provides an important framework for understanding and debating the legitimacy of war‚ it
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Invasion of Kuwait‚ also known as the Iraq-Kuwait War‚ was a major conflict between the Republic of Iraq and the State of Kuwait which resulted in the seven-month long Iraqi occupation of Kuwait which subsequently led to direct military intervention by United States-led forces in the Persian Gulf War. In 1990 Iraq accused Kuwait of stealing Iraq’s oil through slant drilling‚ but some Iraqi sources indicate Saddam Hussein’s decision to attack Kuwait was made only a few months before the actual invasion[3]
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European Imperialism in Africa As a whole‚ Africa was ruined by the Europeans’ greed during the early 1900’s. The European countries were very strong nationalists and they came together and decided to show their superiority by imperializing other continents and countries rather than fight with each other. They chose Africa as the best place to imperialize because of its natural resources and availability. This is what introduced the Berlin Conference. At this meeting‚ representatives from Great
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Following the military achievement of the US in Afghanistan‚ the US focused its attention on Iraq in order to topple Saddam Hussein. The Iraq War was a conflict that took place with the invasion of Iraq by the US on 20 March 2003. The American government offered two significant reasons for waging war against Iraq in 2003 (Klare‚ The Coming War with Iraq‚ page 3). First of all‚ the US claimed that Iraq have weapons of mass destruction that could be captured and used by terrorists organizations and
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A great argument is now present in the media about supporting the American invasion of Iraq. Is it really ethical to support such an invasion of a country? This paper will discuss the facts starting up from political facts leading into ethical ones. To start‚ we must first know that when we deal with an issue in an ethical or‚ to be more general‚ philosophical way‚ we should consider the issue is it should be not as it is. Meaning that‚ if we consider what is going has a wrong origin‚ then we
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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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The Effects of the Iraq War Shelly Johnson Research Writing/COM 220 August 20‚ 2010 Instructor Sharon Cronk-Raby The Effects of the Iraq War The media and the military are focused on the positive effects of the Iraq War and how the soldiers have a job to defend the country‚ which is true. There are also many negative effects the war has had on the soldiers and their families. It is safe to assume that all soldiers are affected by their experiences in war. These soldiers are coming home to
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