Nima Golchin Ms.Sconnyer Liturature 18 October‚ 2012 The Al Anfal campaign The operation was called “Anfal Campaign;” Anfal means “Spoils of war” in Arabic. This was a genocidal campaign that was followed by a series of systematic attacks against the Kurdish population and their means of livelihood – villages‚ agriculture‚ infrastructures‚ roads‚ etc. The operation was carried from early 1986 until late 1989 and it took the lives of more than 2‚150‚000 mostly women‚ children‚ and elders as most
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future attacks on American soil before they could be accomplished. There was certainly a belief among some (particularly those belonging to the neoconservative movement) that the Clinton administration’s hands off approach to both radical Islam and Saddam Hussein’s regime severely weakened the security of the U.S. by showing foreign enemies that the country was not fully committed to fighting against them. After
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war) and the anti-American attacks have been raised from 15% to 92%. In a debate hosted by CNN in 2010‚ Marco Rubio‚ a candidate for Florida’s senate seat‚ stated‚ “the world is better off because Saddam Hussein is no longer in charge.” Maybe he is right; maybe the world is better off without Saddam Hussein ruling a country‚ but why then have incidents of terrorism increased by 600%? Maybe it is because America’s invasion led to the breaking of the record for longest time a country has spent without
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horrific scene. With all of this happening‚ Bush and all of America blamed Iraq which though to be working with al-Qaeda on this attack. It was said that al-Qaeda had nuclear weapons to attack on us‚ but the United States main goal was to get Saddam Hussein. (Gore 8) With all said‚ Gore tries
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invasion of Iraq by President Bush and allied forces in 2003 to counter alleged weapons of mass distractions (WMD) that the regime of Saddam Hussein was said to possess. As has been public knowledge and a fact‚ after a thorough search in all of Iraq‚ such weapons failed to be uncovered putting in jeopardy serious allegations that have been levelled against the Saddam Hussein regime. To view this‚ it brought a close perspective to why in the first place the American decision makers where so convinced and
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Political reasons for Iraq’s war against Kuwait: Saddam Hussein was the 5th president of Iraq. As such‚ his opinions become more than just conjectures but develop into political assertions. Thus‚ it can be said that his many "claims of madness" are Iraq’s political statements. Firstly‚ the Iraq-Kuwait dispute involved Iraqi political claims of Kuwait as Iraqi territory. Kuwait had been a part of the Ottoman Empire’s province of Basra; something that Iraq claimed made it rightful Iraq territory;
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driven by the oil trade and the reluctance of Kuwait to adhere to the oil quotas of the OPEC agreement. This directly affected the price of oil. The reduction in oil prices directly increased the amount of deficit in which Iraq was operating. Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi regime felt Kuwait was their territory so they had the right to take it back and govern as they see fit. Kuwait rejected these ideas and opposed the takeover. Iraq was an ally of the Soviet Union and they were a huge supporter of
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America along with their coalition forces invaded Iraq in order to seize power because of what they perceived as the aggressive intensions of Iraq’s leader ‘Saddam Hussein’. The coalition made an assumption that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass destruction. “The coalition’s mission was ‘to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction‚ to end Saddam Hussein ’s support for
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regarding Hussein’s possession of WMD to use against the United States and its allies (Amin‚ 2014). Hussein had already used biological and chemical weapons during the Kurdish war and the Iraq-Iran war. This history gave the Bush administration a reason that all people could agree upon since no one wanted Hussein to be in a position to use WMD against Americans. However‚ scholars have argued that Hussein only used biological and chemical weapons in the countries that could not retaliate in kind. Thus
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taking Iran‚ it led its infantry and armored divisions‚ artillery and what little aircraft that the Iraqis had on an attack against an outnumbered and overwhelmed Iranian defense. However‚ due to the careless decisions made by Iraqi president Saddam Hussein‚ lack of sufficient air support‚ and display of consistency in defense by the Iranian Army‚ Iraq gained little from the conflict and was eventually repelled by the Iranian defenders out of Iran‚ losing all territory gained during its invasion
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