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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forces formally occupied Baghdad‚ and on December 13 the same year‚ Saddam Hussein‚ the former Iraqi dictator was captured while hiding in a cellar in the outskirts of Tikrit. After the first Gulf war in 1991 Iraq was told by the United Nations to stop testing weapons of mass destruction and biological
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fatalities in 2012. The year before 2003 when the Iraq war started‚ President Bush began publicly focusing attention on Iraq‚ citing the possibilities of Saddam Hussein acquiring weapons of chemical‚ biological and nuclear weapons‚ or more commonly
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multifaceted and included religious schisms‚ border disputes‚ and political differences. The war broke hostilities ranging from conflicts between the religious pacts of Sunni-verses-Shia and Arab-verses-Persians‚ to a personal animosity between Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah Khomeini. The Iraqis launched the war to consolidate the rising power in the Arab world and replace Iran as the dominant Persian Gulf State. Iraq claimed the right over the Shatt el Arab and territories inhabited by Arabs. Iraq hoped
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control of the oil resources in the country by taking it away from the United States and Great Britain. The republic was able to remain in control for about ten years until there was a successful led by the Ba’thist‚ which until recently was led by Saddam Hussein. The United States wanted to have some sort of control of Iraq and its oil supply. The U.S began to post posters and brochures all over the Middle East. In Iraq‚ shops‚ schools‚ and other public locations had anti-communism posters. Iraq not
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The formal definition of the word “tradition” as stated by Merriam Webster dictionary is “a way of thinking‚ behaving‚ or doing something that has been used by the people in a particular group‚ family‚ society‚ etc.‚ for a long time” (Merriam Dictionary) more often than not traditions are centered around positive situations‚ experiences and feelings. Typically‚ when discussing violence one does not think “tradition”. The two things have no correlation‚ as violence is associated with negatives and
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on terror. In congress president bush stated‚ “From this day forward‚ any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime (Bush‚ 2001). The Bush administration further claimed that Saddam Hussein had developed weapons of mass destruction and feared that the regime would use such weapons towards the U.S and or towards Israel. Was America’s invasion of Iraq a consequence of the attacks on 9/11? It was already clear at the time that the
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Obama’s Euphemisms: Responsibly Ending the War in Iraq Rationale Euphemisms are used in writing to reduce offenses or disturbances in the audience created by certain words or phrases. Euphemisms are widely used in normal social contexts‚ the media and even politics. Politicians use euphemisms in their rhetoric to lessen the impact of their words to avoid creating alarm and heighten emotions. Political euphemisms often “sugar coat” the real message and do not give an actual portrayal of the message
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at the time and there were no signs or reason to believe they had weapons of mass destruction since the mid-1900s. “The Iraq Survey Group concluded that ‘Iraq‚ by the mid-1990s‚ was essentially free of militarily significant WMD stocks’‚ although Saddam retained a strategic ambition and capability to reacquire them once the sanctions regime had ended.” (Fisher). Seen as though the war began in 2003‚ the threat of weapons of mass destruction could not be considered a
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also the oldest child in my family. Our parents are similar in many ways too. Like my parents‚ Thuras mother and father are well educated and value education for their children. Although we have commonalities‚ we have differences‚ too. When Saddam Hussein ruled Iraq‚ Thura didnt have access to a large range of media‚ while I have an abundance to choose from: television‚ the Internet‚ books‚ magazines‚ and newspapers. As an American‚ I am allowed more freedom than Thura was allowed in Iraq. Thura
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