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    The drive to the city of Babylon approached two hours with Sunday traffic. Entering the city limits, they saw the abundance of date-bearing palm fields. Hanging from the trees were workers with large canvas sacks harvesting the Springtime crop, as a breeze swayed the fronds. Miles further, the caravan came upon the stone wall entrance barricading the legendary ruins, known as the Gardens of Babylon. The wall protected it against thieves and vandals. The first van halted in the dirt visitors '…

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    The United States has been considered the world’s police for more than one hundred years. The founding father’s originally sought to keep American interest secular and to be solely concerned with it’s own well being. World events since that time have caused the United States to involve itself in the affairs of other countries, some for the benefit of that country and its people and others for U.S. interests. President Roosevelt’s Monroe Doctrine “asked the Europeans not to increase their…

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    Liberalism In Iraq

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    Professor Asal Political science 102 9/27/16 In the wake of 9/11 The United States, The United Kingdom, and many other nations formed a coalition against the Ba’athist regime of Saddam Hussein. The coalition force invaded in 2003 to overthrow Saddam’s dictatorship and establish a democratic state in the Middle East. Although in some instances realism can describe the invasion of Iraq, the theory of Liberalism best describes the invasion…

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    Iraq in 2001 at the order of president Bush as a response to the attack of the twin towers in New York city was a display of the power of the American military; for within weeks the American army had overrun the Iraqi military and toppled Saddam Hussein who was accused of participating in the attacks on American soil and also accused of harboring weapons of mass destruction. This military display of power by America and its western allies despite insufficient evidence could be said to have…

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    Since 2001, the United States special operations forces have been fighting the war on terror. It remains the longest war in American history. The decision to go to war with Iraq was unpopular with the American people, and for those who supported it in congress faced a political backlash. The president received authorization from Congress to declare war on Iraq due to their alleged involvement in the Sep 11 attack and their alleged possession of Weapons of Mass Destructions. On May 19, 2003,…

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    today and many have struggled to find common ground on this problem. On the 6th of August 1990, the international community, imposed total financial and economic sanctions against the Iraqi Republic. This embargo lasted until May of 2003 when Saddam Hussein was forced out of power. In the beginning, the sanctions were to force Iraq out of Kuwait, (which they had invaded days prior to the agreement) to disclose the location of any weapons of mass destruction they may have possessed, and to pay…

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    The Ba Athist Party

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    Just like most, if not all, political figures that have made a significant impact on the world, Saddam Hussein emerged as a part of the Ba’athist party established in 1932 and was nurtured through this political influence. Ba’athists are essentially a group of Arabs that encourage the co-operation between all Arab countries under the desire to become unified through socialism and the idea of freedom. In order to accomplish this, the Ba’thist ideology stood for the eradication of Western…

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    started. The operation was to kill the dictator Saddam Hussein. They wanted to kill him because he was able to get weapons of mass destruction. The U.S was just one of the military groups there. The countries that were involved were United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, and Poland. So it was a pretty big war. In 2003 the Iraq war started with the U.S military rushing into Iraq. It was an operation to take away the heavy weapons from Saddam Hussein. Chris Tritt was station in the capital of Iraq. He…

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    Present Conflict In Iraq

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    Present Conflict in Iraq: Informed or Ignored In the last decade alone, half a million people have died from conflict-related causes in Iraq since the US-led invasion in 2003 (ABC), and has become the site of intense struggles both domestically and internationally. There have been different types of debates about whether Iraq has improved since the toppling of Saddam Hussain’s government. Opponents of the current conflict believe the worst is over in Iraq and the country has regained stability.…

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    In July of 1988, Khomeini and the Islamic Republic officially accepted UN Resolution 598, a truce agreement between Iran and Iraq that neither named Iraq as the invader nor made either nation pay war compensations. After 8 continuous years, the war outcomes of the war were drastically destructive to both sides, Iraq and Iran. The Iran Iraq war was not only the longest war in the twentieth century; it was the last conventional war in history. Most of the war routine was made of armored and…

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