Uday Hussein

The Cold War long defined American foreign policy. American foreign policy was forced to embody American national identity by advocating for economic freedom and countering the Soviet Union across the globe. Once the Cold War ended, the U.S. faced a world with new actors and new challenges. This new world necessitated a new foreign policy as well. After the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy struggled to meet different challenges, but its core objective of spreading American ideology remained. The…

happened through a span of eight years, eight months and twenty eight days. The invasion began when the United States forces wanted to search Iraq who were suspected to have weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and the need to topple the regime of Saddam Hussein, the former reigning leader of Ba’athist Iraq, as he was a threat of terrorism. This essay will provide a detailed analysis of what happened during the Iraq war and with the application to the theory of realism. Realism has been able to…

A civil conflict has traditionally been defined as “a war between political factions or regions within the same country.” However, it is equally important to take into account conflicts that are peaceful in nature, including religious tensions, non-violent political movements(e.g. imposition of a strong ideology: the war against communism in general for example, although it did contain elements of violence in certain regimes) as well as referendums. In light of the formal definition of a…

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…

“evil”, and “freedom” (Jentleson, 2014:465). The use of this ideological rhetoric can be argued to be a good move by President Bush’s scriptwriting team. Using the term ‘evil’ is an easy way to alter public opinion as ‘evil’ is a concept that a lot of the public will understand and it creates a clear image in the public’s minds that is very black and white. It is a very simple way of gaining public support for a foreign policy decision, and in this case to create a negative narrative towards the…

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…

“My fellow citizens, the dangers to our country and the world will be overcome. We will pass through this time of peril and carry on the work of peace. We will defend our freedom. We will bring freedom to others and we will prevail,” stated President George W. Bush on March 19, 2003 when he justified the United States’ need to invade Iraq (Khan 64). Within the borders of Iraq, US soldiers dehumanized Iraqi citizens by torturing them in a prison known as Abu Ghraib and photographed themselves…

I. On August 2nd, 1990 Iraqi president Saddam Hussein gave his military forces the order to invaded and occupied the small Arab state of Kuwait. His aim was to eliminate or take control of Kuwait’s immense oil reserves. Despite its small size, Kuwait is the largest oil producer in the Middle East. Iraq accused Kuwait of breaking agreements that limit oil production within the region, which led to oil prices being brought down and Iraq losing billions of dollars. By invading Kuwait and burning…

Saddam Hussein had the power before he became president in 1979. He and the Baath party dominated Iraq until Saddam was removed by the US invasion in 2003.The reasons that made Saddam invade Kuwait are Kuwait refused to forgive debt Iraq had run up during Iran-Iraq war. Second, 1897 map shows Kuwait is a part of Iraq and separated by the British. In fact, all the Iraqi leaders had claimed that Kuwait had been wrongfully split off from Iraq. Also, the UN imposed hard economic sanctions on Iraq,…

up a full hour earlier in the mornings.” (85). It’s different from our society because Napoleon is a ruthless dictator without the animals knowing. He kills animals and makes the animals think it’s okay. Napoleon is like the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. Hussein’s secret service killed 250,000 of his own people, by low estimates, like Napoleon’s dogs killed many of his animals “When they had finished their confession, the dogs promptly tore their throats out…” (84). In our society today, we are…