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    The Unjustified War on Iraq The Bush Administration was impatiently unjustified in the attack on Iraq. The justification the Republican council offered was no more that an attempt to eradicate the blame infused by poorly made, hasty decisions and forceful actions. Liberal magazine, The Nation, publishes many liberal perspectives on the actions that have been taken in prevention of major military action. Although action was necessary, the use of military force by the United States was excessive

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    the Iraq War The United States of America declared war on Iraq in the Spring of 2003 to free the Iraqi people from the oppressive rule of Saddam Hussein and to keep them safe, and to prevent future attacks from Iraq. Saddam Hussein killed, tortured, and raped thousands of people, especially those who opposed him. During the war the U.S. easily took over the capital of Iraq, Baghdad, and eventually found Hussein. Though the U.S. found Hussein there was still much to be accomplished in Iraq, but

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    A War to Stop Violence The Iraq War was a conflict that lasted from 2003-2011, and many gave their lives to see this conflict end. While many supported the war at the beginning, opinions of the war quickly began to change as to whether the war was justifiable. Many who supported the war justified it saying the war routed out terrorist and brought stability to the region, but opponents argued that the war generated more violence and destabilized the area. There are several points for each reason,

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    The Iraq War, also known as Operation Iraqi Freedom, took place in 2003 and dragged on for almost nine years, until the withdrawal of US troops in December 2011. The invasion was justified by the US using the new National Security Strategy that was proposed by the Bush administration. One of the key features of the National Security strategy was the justification that the US could preemptively strike targets nations that it deemed a threat to the security of the US. In order to justify the invasion

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    Administration declared war on terror. Following the invasion of Afghanistan to hunt down those responsible for this horrific incident, the U.S. swiftly changed its priority to invading Iraq and overthrowing its government by capturing its president, Saddam Hussein. In this mission, the U.S. scrambled to find a connection between Saddam Hussein and the terrorist organization al-Qa’ida. Since the invasion of Iraq in March 2003, many scholars have focused on the effects of the Iraq War, speculating on the

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    Iraq War Research Paper

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    The United States aversion towards former Iraqi president, Saddam Hussein, began nearly thirty years ago after the Iraq invasion of Kuwait. Post-invasion there was international animosity towards the Hussein regime, causing the U.S to step in and take action in an attempt to control and restructure the Iraq government. In 2000, when George W. Bush took office, U.S foreign policy adopted a more aggressive stance with the overall goal being the removal of Saddam Hussein from any governmental position

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    In 2003, President George Walker Bush and his administration sent the United States military to war in Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein, Iraq’s ruler and dictator, who murdered over 600,000 innocent people, and “...used chemical weapons to remove Kurds from their villages in northern Iraq…” (Rosenberg 2). According to the Department of Defense’s website, the war removed Saddam Hussein from power, ending an era when “Iraqis had fewer rights than when its representatives signed the Human Rights Declaration

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    War Crimes In Iraq

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    The United States committed war crimes in the war against Iraq because of the intrusion of people’s rights. Crimes against humanity consist of murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhuman acts committed against civilization before or during war. War crimes are actions carried out during the conduct of a war that violates accepted international rules of war. Crimes against humanity have existed and customary international law for over half a century and are also evidenced in

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    In the months encouraging the war with Iraq, numerous addressed why the war was being managed "not if all else fails, but rather as a first resort" (Ricks 62). As simply war hypothesis states, all together for a war to be defended, "all conceivable, serene distinct options for determining the contention being referred to must be depleted" (Orend 2). This was unmistakably not finished with Iraq. A sample of a serene or option measure the United States could have taken in the years, maybe even decades

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    the USA began the military operation in Iraq. The American government suspected Iraq in oppressing the ethnic minorities, development of the mass-destruction weapons and cooperation with the international terrorist groups. The war did not last long and there are many reasons to believe that the USA was preparing for this military campaign for long time. One of the main reasons of the war in Iraq was a long lasting Iraq disarmament crisis. In the 1990s Iraq was suspected in producing the mass-destruction

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