Saddam Hussein

As a kid everyone dreamed of finding a treasure map. This treasure map would lead you through an adventurous path of traps, bad guys, and high speed chases to end at a magnificent trove beyond your wildest dreams. In a round about way this is what the movie Three Kings is based on. The movie was directed by David O. Russell who also had a hand in other movies such as American Hustle and Silver Linings Playbook. It starts off with an army solider finding a document which turns out to be a map…

the Iraq War, was an extensively long-lasting international armed conflict that found its beginnings on March 20th, 2003, spurred by an invasion carried out by a United States-led coalition with the aims of overthrowing the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict consisted of two phases: a brief, conventionally fought war that had taken place throughout the duration of March 2003 to April 2003, as well as the far longer second phase in which United States forces took it upon themselves…

Iraq has often conflicted with Kuwait there has been tensions over border claims and after the end of the Iran Iraq war disputes over oil policy. On August 2nd, 1990 President Saddam Hussain ordered the invasion of Kuwait. A coalition of 44 nations soon organized to thwart Hussein. Led by the U.S. 32 nations contributed military forces and direct support and 12 other nations provided non-military assistance. On November 26, 1990 the U.N. authorized the use of “any means necessary” against Iraq…

Refugee Crisis After 9/11 The amount of refugees fleeing from war torn middle eastern countries has come to light in the media as a significant crisis in recent months. The United States is responsible for disrupting and weakening the middle eastern countries where the refugee crisis is based. Ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11th, the United States has been exponentially increasing its involvement in these foreign countries for inconsequential reasons. The U.S. government has…

On March 19th, 2003, President George W. Bush announces to the world that the United States military would soon be conducting operations in Iraq to free its people. Only two years after the biggest terrorist attack on America, Americans no longer felt safe. President Bush stormed through Iraq in search of the alleged nuclear weapons Saddam’s regime was said to have only to come up empty-handed. He also accused the Iraqi government of harboring and supporting al-Qaeda. The War on Terror was still…

As the statue of Saddam Hussein was dragged down by an American armored vehicle, Iraqis cheered “Thank you very much,” holding signs that read “Thank You USA” (Losing Iraq 2014). As Col. R. Alan King recounted in PBS Frontline’s documentary Losing Iraq (2014), he remembers thinking “This might just work.” Unfortunately, these early signs of success towards a stable Iraqi government would not continue. Losing Iraq chronicles the mismanagement of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, the…

Saddam Hussein's Speech; Rhetorical Analysis From 1917 to 1991 Shiite Arabs of southern Iraq and Kurds of northern Iraq, known as Kurdistan, suffered under the aggressive behavior of Iraqi government which was mostly controlled by Sunnis in that time. These two parts of Iraq were attacked by the government aircrafts. Due to attacks that are lunched against Kurds and Shiite, after 1991, United State, United Kingdom, and France together put a limit to the flying zone of Iraqi's aircrafts,…

spread their extremist ideology to millions of sympathizers around the world. ISIS ' beginnings can be followed to the Second Gulf War in 2003, when the U.S., alongside a few different countries, begin attacks on Iraq and which toppled then leader Saddam Hussein. Amongst the different revolt battling interrelationship powers and new Iraqi government was the radical Islamic being lead and pushed by al-Qaida in Iraq. ISIS ideas was shaped out of the al-Qaida and started…

would cancel this debt. Hussein also clamed that he had fought the Iranians for the benefit of all Arab nations, and that Kuwait owed him for that. He also somehow convinced himself that Kuwait should be part of his country because it had been a province of the Ottoman Empire, which was based in Iraq. Kuwait became independent just before Iraq itself was formed (Deese 300B). Having considered all of his reasons to invade Kuwait, it almost made sense. Unfortunately for Saddam, the U.S. wasn’t…

Prior to our invasion of Iraq on March 2003, there were some monumental failures conducted by the intelligence community (IC). These failures pertain specifically to the assessment of Saddam Hussein having weapons of mass destruction (WMD) which was the IC’s ultimate end state goal. The United States was not alone in its inaccuracies. In fact, it was a multinational effort. This short report will review the history leading up to the failures that played a major factor into the assessments. In…