Argumentative Essay Nobody likes war; it is so costly in so many ways. Lives are lost‚ property is destroyed‚ people are injured and some are disabled mentally and physically. Because of this many people think war must be avoided at all costs. All these facts regarding the high cost of war on a country are true. On the other hand there are situations in which a nation has an obligation to go to war. Their were many times in the United States history when the decision to enter a war
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him riding a white horse‚ removing the devilish Hussein from his tyrannical reign as leader. However‚ anyone with two brain cells to rub together can see behind this act and realise that this is a personal revenge mission on terrorism that could cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians as well as‚ potentially‚ billions of dollars. Bush is going against the will of most Americans‚ but he’d have us believe that Hussein is the only tyrant in the picture. He’d also have
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Bush administration and its officials assured the world that the Hussein regime was producing weapons of mass destruction or WMD’s‚ which would pose a huge security threat to all the nations around the world. Another being the fact that Hussein supported the group responsible for the attacks on our country on September 11th 2001‚ which angered plenty of Americans and seemingly justified violence to be used. And also the fact that Hussein needed to be removed from power as he was a brutal dictator who
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Iran-Iraq conflict causes and consequences (1980-88) INTRODUCTION : This conflict began when Iraq invaded iran in 1980 followed by border disputes and Irq’s desire to become dominant Persian Gulf state and the Iranian revolution at that time .but they couldn’t get the control they only occupied some portion of iran and then repelled by iran .Despite calls for a ceasefire by the United Nations Security Council‚ hostilities continued until 20 August 1988. The war finally ended with Resolution 598
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obtaining control over the capital Baghdad . According to U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair‚ the objective of the mission was to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction‚ to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism‚ and to free the Iraqi people from Hussein and his abuse‚ but the one reason why the American people wanted to start a war was because of the attacks to the united states of America on September 11 2001 when thousands of Americans died on the hands of terrorism
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Mesopotamia‚ whose territory was roughly equivalent to that of modern Iraq‚ fell to the Ottoman Turks in the 16th century and remained part of the Ottoman Empire until a British invasion during World War One. As a method for ensuring the success of the uprising against the Ottoman Turks‚ the British supported the national independence movement within Iraq. However‚ in 1920 the Treaty of Sèvres established Iraq as a mandate of the League of Nations under British administration. The delay in attaining
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to war with Iraq. Many have said and argued that the real motives behind George W. Bush’s reasons for going back to war with Iraq was justly for the vengeance for the attempted plot to kill his father‚ the former president George Bush by Sadaam Hussein‚ the former dictator of Iraq. (CNN News September 27‚ 2002) This serves as the basis of the true futility of any war waged be it on foreign soil or in our own homes. The new king‚ Claudius‚ sends Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to engage conversation
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and so on. Why do people create such things? I suppose the answer is greed. As a perfect example we have Saddam Hussein. He kills and suppresses his own people presumably because of greed) and then openly ’defies’ America (I say sarcastically). Then on the other hand there’s Bush. He’s not exactly evil (or is he?)‚ but he is greedy and moronic. He announces that America is ’gonna’ kill Saddam and free the Iraqi people‚ meanwhile he’s thinking that he has Iraq and it’s resources‚ and is one step closer
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Every Man in this Village is a Liar Prologue In this chapter Stack describes the effects of conflict on the lives of both people who have experienced war and people who have not experienced war. Stack provides an example in the form of her relative‚ John a former American marine. John was sent to Beirut to combat the Hezbollah and whilst fighting there he experienced the true nature of war. He returned later however “he wasn’t all right”. He committed suicide due to the effects of war and the conflicts
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authorized a full-scale war on Iraq and the Saddam Hussein led regime by uttering just two simple words. "Let’s go‚" President George W. Bush said to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield Wednesday at the close of a nearly four-hour meeting in the Oval Office. The war on Iraq‚ which has been given the title "Operation: Iraqi Freedom"‚ is the result of months of Hussein’s refusal to let United Nations weapons inspectors into Iraq. The U.N. suspects that Hussein has been building and harboring "weapons
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