sent troops to Afghanistan to look for the leader of Al-Qaeda‚ Osama bin Laden‚ but he also sent troops to Iraq to finish what Bush’s father never finished back in the Gulf War which was to catch Saddam Hussein. Bush achieved that but there were still American troops there even after the capture of Hussein. When Obama was elected president‚ one of his goals was to remove troops out Iraq and to also end the war on terror. The first troops to withdraw were the ones in Iraq‚ when he was was first elected
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-Iraq war during the 1980s. As Iraq began losing the war‚ Saddam Hussein began to become more aggressive to develop a chemical and biological weapons programs. Mustard gas was the first to be used against the waves of Iranian infantry in 1980. By the mid-80’s Iraq began developing more sophisticated nerve agents like Sarin. It is estimated that Iranian casualties are in the tens of thousands. When the war was coming to an end Saddam used his chemical weapons in the town of Halabja in March 1988
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be the same but this could happen to anyone. There is another story about a king who is a dictator and has strict control of his people and demands high taxes. He was later dethroned and killed because of it. This relates to modern rulers like Saddam Hussein‚ who controlled every aspect of his people’s lives but was later captured. Anyone can learn from others mistakes‚ found in The Holy
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held responsible for their crimes. The International Criminal Court provides a permanent means to go about this‚ and acts as a deterent against anyone taking complete control. Slobodan Milosevic was able to be put on trial for his deeds‚ and Saddam Hussein faced justice in Iraq. However‚ this alternative method would allow the dictator to be in power for longer‚ and they would still have some power. Not all trials are fair‚ and the dictator may escape justice‚ and continue as they were. The
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After finding absolutely no weapons of mass destruction that the US had claimed existed‚ the United States bribed the UN to support the war because Iraq was harboring terrorists who would upset the peace of the entire world. In addition‚ having Saddam Hussein as a threat the bush administration wanted to get rid of him the NPR’s Rene Montagne asked Richard Perle “... nearly 5‚000 Americans troops dead‚ thousands more with wounds‚ hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead or wounded; when you think about this
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Human beings all have a list of skills and devices that are used in our everyday lives so we can solve different kinds of problems that we deal with. People use multiple intelligences since the day they were born into this world. We have never thought about how we use them in our daily lives because they are used naturally. Gardner defines intelligence as "the capacity to solve problems or to fashion products that are valued in one or more cultural setting". Using biological as well as cultural
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The Post-Ottoman Syndrome: A Never-Ending Problem In the novel War and Peace In the Middle East‚ author Avi Shlaim argues that Arab nations have been unable to escape the post-Ottoman syndrome. In particular he describes how the various powers inside and outside the region have failed to produce peace. While some of Shlaim’s arguments hinder the message‚ I agree with his overall thesis that the Middle East problems were caused and prolonged by the failure of both powers and superpowers to
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Week 3 Individual Assignment - Rebuttal Paper BCOM/275 – Critical Thinking Patty Haynes 07/24/13 Virginia Carter The Rolling Stone magazine has recently been met with a slew of angry outbursts and boycotting for placing the well-known‚ suspected Boston Bombing Terrorist‚ Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on its cover this month. The magazine is under scrutiny not just for placing his picture on the cover‚ but for how the picture portrays the suspect. Tsarnaev’s photo is a very glamorous‚ dreamy eyed‚ tousled
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Our lives in the United States are lived on a consistent schedule. We go about our routines on a day-to-day basis without many interruptions. We are nowhere close to an ideal society‚ but sometimes‚ things can seem perfect. War is much more prevalent than peace around the world. There are a lot of war movies‚ but precious few peace movies‚ lots of martial music but only a handful of peace songs. Maybe peace is boring. Also in history‚ we hear and study lots of wars with different names
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example of violence has no influence on American’s tendency towards aggressive behavior. The video also links some of the U.S.’s choices through history to what led to the 9/11 terrorist attacks‚ saying that arming and training the Taliban and Saddam Hussein were key factors in the
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