Saddam Hussein

George H. Bush was the 41st President of the United States of America. His Vice President was Dan Quayle, who was a senator from Indiana. He was only President for one term and at the 1993 election he lost to Bill Clinton, but while president Bush helped the country in many ways while he was in office. In July of 1991 President Bush tried to help the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union by meeting with the Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev. There they signed the…

In an Essay written by William T. Cavanaugh, he realized that many scholars were unable to define and distinguish religion from secular nations. He questioned why religion had only recently been separated from political institutions, by providing the example of the Aztec religion. He stated “Is Aztec ‘politics’ to blame for their bloody human sacrifices, or is Aztec ‘religion’ to blame?” He suggests that although many argue that Religion plays a major factor in the cause of conflicts shouldn’t…

with them or be deemed 'as going against them', giving them a enemy-like status. Them being selective of their target country also raises questions for me, with 9/11 Al-Qaeda was the one that claimed responsibility yet they decided to go and kill Saddam. The most likely reason for Saddam's capture and invasion of Iraq,was after the Kuwait invasion relations between Iraq and America turned…

documentary, Dan Rather notes that even years before the terror attacks on the World Trade Centers, politicians in Washington had committed themselves to toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime. The atrocities of 9/11 provided them with a launching pad to mount their offensive against him, and they subsequently embarked on a campaign of vilification, with Hussein as their primary target. Mass media acted on the government’s bidding with stories surrounding Hussein’s sponsoring of the attack, his…

subject to quite a bit of conflict and violence since the turn of the century and even before. Despite this Iraq was, and still is, a large producer of oil in the Middle East. Before the U.S. led an invasion of Iraq in 2003 the country was led by Saddam Hussein. The government he ran was compromised mostly of Sunnis and there was general distrust of their Shia counterparts, the government believing that their loyalty lay more with Iran than with Iraq despite evidence in conflicts with Iran that…

involvement in the region. Ricks’s writings are filled with the incompetence of the Bush administrations urgency to go to war with Iraq. Claiming that the war began over a small source of international support and wrongful information about how Saddam Hussein and the terrorist group al Qaeda where somehow linked, with no information on weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Decisions made by the Bush Administration, the Pentagon, the U.S. Central Command and American Military involved in the war,…

weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). In the2010 Iraq Inquiry, UK Prime Minister Tony Blair gave evidence that the invasion also dealt with the ‘brutality and repression’ of Saddam Hussein’s regime’” (Bahador and Wright). Similarly, President George W. Bush made statements that Iraqis now had the “chance to live in freedom” without Hussein in power (Bahador and Wright). Both these leaders made retroactive claims regarding the degree to which humanitarian…

The cornerstone of a democratic society requires: an individual who is free of thought and 2, an unbiased source of information, that a voter can pull from to make an informed vote. In Shadows of Liberty by Dan Cantagallo, featuring Jean-Philippe Tremblay, which is a documentary that highlights and raises concern over pivotal changes made in the fabric of democracy in United States of America specifically regarding; the laws of media and free speech. The film notes that during certain terms of…

Chris Kyle’s first time killing was when he was on a rooftop covering Marines while they searched and made their way to the country north of Saddam Hussein. The town was deserted most of the residents had already left or were in their house scared to go out. A woman and her child stepped into the dusty street. Chris Kyle looked through the scope on his .300 WinMag bolt-action rifle he noticed the…

While Operation Desert Storm was a final stand to let Iraq know who had the upper hand, the outcome of the attack was a success because of the liberation of Kuwait. The attack was a final stand against Iraq to let them know they could not win. Saddam Hussein did not realize once he…