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Topic: American government position on war on Iraq

	Iraq
		In 1979 this growing position was expanded as the Shiite Revolution in Iran and the rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini caused many Arab nations to fear a spread of the violence and upheaval which was rocking Iran, especially as the Ayatollah was particularly vociferous in his denunciations of Arab nationalism.
		By the end of 1988, the war had dragged on for eight years, and Iraq had been reduced from a mid-level, growing country to a debtor nation surviving off of the charity of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, which pumped vast sums of money into Iraq again as a result of Arab nationalism.
		Iraq’s international goals are fairly simple: outwit international sanctions, rebuild their army and have the potential to use it aggressively, acquire unconventional weapons, and reenter the Arab ranks.
	www.u.arizona.edu /~volgy/iraqfp.html (8036 words)

	ipedia.com: 2003 invasion of Iraq Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Casualties in the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq
		Many hoped that the war could act as a catalyst for democracy and peace in the Middle East, and that once Iraq became democratic and prosperous other nations would quickly follow suit, and thus the social environment that allowed terrorism to flourish would be eliminated.
		Popular opposition to war on Iraq led to global protests, and the war was criticized by Belgium, Russia, France, the People's Republic of China, Germany, Switzerland, The Vatican, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, Mexico, the Arab League, the African Union and others.
	www.ipedia.com /2003_invasion_of_iraq_1.html (5545 words)

	The History Guy: Philippine American War
		In 1898, Spain fought a losing war with the United States in which her colonies of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Guam were overrun with relative ease by the U.S. Army and her Atlantic Fleet devastated outside of Santiago, Cuba.
		American forces held the capitol of Manila, while Aguinaldo's army occupied a trench-line surrounding the city.
		Many American officers and non-coms had served in the Indian Wars, and thus applied the old belief that "the only good Indian was a dead Indian" to their relations with the Filipinos.
	www.historyguy.com /PhilipineAmericanwar.html (1295 words)

	Iraq War
		Wars are all about chaos and catastrophes, death and suffering, and lifelong grief, which is why you should go to war only when it's absolutely unavoidable.
		At the onset of the Iraq war, the rallying cry to "support our troops" caused me to think long and hard about what it means to be against this war but to continue to respect and even admire the military people I know.
		Given such a history, opposition to war on Iraq arises from the fact that the war is being waged with little or no legal basis, so that many of the world's people fear it sets a precedent for future invasions.
	webhost.bridgew.edu /jhayesboh/iraq.html (3396 words)

	ICE Cases: Iran-Iraq War and Waterway Claims
		This war resulted in hundreds of thousands of casualties and a tremedous loss of oil revenues for both countries The war eventually ended in 1988 but anomosities have persisted.
		While both countries are Islamic, the government of Iran is of the Shi'a sect while Iraq is of the Sunni.
		Iraq's initial invasion met with a good deal of success but eventually became bogged down and was unable to capitalize on its early successes.
	www.american.edu /ted/ice/iraniraq.htm (1887 words)

	Iraq and War - Comparison of Views
		Not all of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction were found during the inspections of the 1990's and many believed that Iraq was still hiding some.
		One alternative to a theocracy is for U.S. administrators to select leaders to rule Iraq and for Iraq to serve as a model for colonialism, not democracy.
		War has liberated Iraq from Saddam, but in the south of Iraq he has been replaced with Shiite leaders who are against the presence of U.S. military.
	www.awesomelibrary.org /Iraq-War.html (2137 words)

	American government position on invasion of Iraq - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Much of the position is summed up in the main article on the U.S. plan to invade Iraq.
		A summary of the United States government's case for military intervention in Iraq can be seen in the presentation that Secretary of State Colin Powell made to the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003.
		Norman Schwarzkopf (Former General, The Gulf War) was quoted as saying in a January 28 2003 article in the Washington Post that the U.S. should wait for the results of United Nations inspectors and expressed concerns about the human and financial costs of occupying Iraq.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_government_position_on_war_on_Iraq (1258 words)

	Changing Direction in Iraq: The Case for Redeployment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The administration must recognize that Iraq is not yet a real democracy, nor will it be anytime soon, and a new government in Iraq is not going to trigger a wave of democracy in the Middle East.
		Iraq’s leaders need to understand that the United States is not going to serve as a crutch indefinitely.
		Americans in the end will be safer if our Army is rested and ready to take on necessary assignments, if our National Guard is home to respond to terrorist attacks and other disasters, and if terrorists can no longer use Iraq as a recruiting tool.
	www.americanprogress.org /issues/2006/06/b1801909.html (1019 words)

	UN Resolutions and the US War on Iraq
		In regard to international law the U.S. government has taken the position that the government of Iraq is in “material breach” of the UN Security Council resolutions which provided the legal framework for ending the 1990–91 Gulf War.
		Of the five national governments which are permanent members of the UN Security Council and therefore have the procedural means (veto power) for sovereign decision-making at the UN, three—France, Russia, and China—have equivocated about whether they agree with the U.S. position that Iraq was in material breach of relevant Security Council resolutions.
		The U.S. government maintains its position that Iraq’s material breach of previous resolutions alone is sufficient legal justification for unilateral U.S. military attack.
	www.laborstandard.org /Iraq/Dayne_on_UN.htm (923 words)

	War Against Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This report is contrary to prewar assertions by the Bush administration, which stated in the run-up to the war that Saddam possessed stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, was actively reconstituting his nuclear arms program, and might provide weapons of mass destruction to terrorists to attack America.
		Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was the main reason cited by Bush for the war, in which more than 500 U.S. troops and thousands of Iraqis have died, though no such arms were found and weapons hunters say pre-war intelligence was flawed.
		Bush and his team had said in the run-up to the war that it was necessary to topple Saddam because he had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, was trying to build a nuclear weapon and represented a grave danger in the post-Sept. 11, 2001, world.
	www.rossde.com /editorials/edtl_Iraq_war.html (5189 words)

	U.S. Rep. John Murtha's statement calling for U.S. exit from Iraq (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		And what demoralizes them is going to war with not enough troops and equipment to make the transition to peace; the devastation caused by IEDs; being deployed to Iraq when their homes have been ravaged by hurricanes; being on their second or third deployment and leaving their families behind without a network of support.
		This is the first prolonged war we have fought with three years of tax cuts, without full mobilization of American industry and without a draft.
		The burden of this war has not been shared equally; the military and their families are shouldering this burden.
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05322/608402.stm (1169 words)

	Has the US Government Committed War Crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq?
		Its government had neither the means nor the intention of waging war against this country; nor did it issue any threat to harm the United States.
		That high officials of the U.S. government and their supporters in the news media and elsewhere openly made many false statements to justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq surely exonerates nobody; if anything, those statements cast the guilty parties in an even starker light.
		of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war.
	www.antiwar.com /orig2/higgs053004.htm (1393 words)

	A Just War in Iraq?
		It was, mostly, a defensive war doctrine, which promised prosperity to those nations who obeyed it—and a withdrawal of Divine protection for those who did not—or in other words it condemned going to war for the love of blood and war, power and wealth, or an inordinate spirit of vengeance or prejudice.
		In the same record, enemies preparing for war, or positioning for war, though not yet attacking the homeland were cut off, surrounded, and routed by pre-emptive strikes, when evidence gathered by spies was placed side by side with past and current attitudes and actions of the enemy.
		This seems to be the position of President Bush—a pre-emptive strike against impending enemy designs, based, his administration claims, on solid intelligence and the voice of history.
	www.usiap.org /Viewpoints/Zgen/AJustWarInIraq.html (781 words)

	Iraq war
		The results of an extensive study into the number of civilians killed in the 2003 Iraq war and its aftermath have just been released; some 100 000 Iraqis have died as a result of the coalition invasion.
		President Bush told the world that he wanted war with Iraq because Hussein was developing weapons of mass destruction, because he may use these weapons against the USA, and because Hussein had refused to allow in arms inspectors according to a UN Security Council resolution.
		In this war the Defence Forces are being sent to fight a war that is very unpopular with the Australian people from the beginning, a war that is immoral and illegal, and a war that will probably be counterproductive in the long term.
	www.geocities.com /daveclarkecb/IraqWar.html (3328 words)

	India, Pakistan. Bangladesh, popular, opposition, arguments, polls, Iraq War, US imperialism, sovereignty, violations,
		Some of those who have commented on US war plans have focused on the leadership of George Bush, describing him as a "cruel" or "mad" leader, as a "whimsical demon", or a "barbarian", and suggested that the Iraq war would amount to a "hate crime".
		Those in India who have studied India's colonial history see remarkable parallels in how the US (and its allies such as Britain, Iraq's former colonial ruler) have used all manner of extra-legal and coercive means to chip away at Iraq's sovereignty with the eventual purpose of re-colonizing it.
		Like people throughout the world, the people of the Indian subcontinent remain overwhelmingly against war, and this is one of the factors that has prevented any government in the region - even Pakistan's pro-military government from endorsing the US position.
	members.tripod.com /~India_resource/oppositioniraqwar.html (1543 words)

	American Petrocracy
		Among the shifting rationales for the war in Iraq, the most plausible motive may be the least discussed: access to oil.
		Before the war, Iraq had been producing 3.5 million barrels a day, and many in the industry and the administration believed that the volume could easily be increased to 7 million by 2010.
		American economists Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes, in a draft paper entitled “The Economic Costs of the Iraq War: An Appraisal Three Years After the Beginning of the Conflict,” reached a similar but much more detailed and buttressed conclusion.
	www.amconmag.com /2006/2006_07_17/cover.html (2660 words)

	Iraq rebuilding contracts awarded - Mar. 25, 2003
		President Bush Tuesday asked Congress for $489.3 million to cover the cost of repairing damage to Iraq's oil facilities, much or all of which could go to Halliburton or its subcontractors under the terms of its contract with the Army.
		The Army Corps of Engineers told CNN Tuesday that Halliburton would be paid on a "cost plus" basis, meaning it would be reimbursed for the costs of its work and would get a certain percentage of those costs as a fee.
		But its biggest value could be that it puts Halliburton in a prime position to handle the complete refurbishment of Iraq's long-neglected oil infrastructure, which will be a plum job.
	money.cnn.com /2003/03/25/news/companies/war_contracts/index.htm (745 words)

	French opinion on war shifts \| csmonitor.com
		Until a week ago, finding anyone here who disagreed with the government's position on the war was as likely as discovering oil in the heart of Paris.
		In the run-up to the war, Chirac's staunch resistance to the US-led military invasion boosted his popularity to an all-time high.
		Paris was the scene of some of the biggest antiwar rallies around the world, and Chirac, who had been looking for a way to assert his own and his country's political relevance in a post-cold -Europe, warmed to the role of international champion of peace.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/0423/p07s01-woeu.html (949 words)

	The American Scene (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The American Scene: An ongoing review of politics and culture.
		Merci Pour Rien: According to CNN, "France's ambassador to the United States, Jean-David Levitte, said Tuesday that his country might re-think its position on war with Iraq if Saddam were to use biological or chemical weapons against coalition forces.
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	www.theamericanscene.com /2003/03/merci-pour-rien-according-to-cnn.asp (113 words)

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