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    this problem, because people need to know about the history, and about the struggles people have to endure to keep our country together. It is also important because people need to know what is happening in the world, as of today. The famous Sadaam Hussein is known all around the world for his vindictive acts, leading to genocide. Threats of killing a large number of people have impacted the U.S. and Iraq

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    Talisman Energy INC.: The Decision to Enter Iraq I. Introduction Any company that decides to expand internationally should consider many complexities that it might face. Because of the differences in political system, culture, surrounding environment, and many other factors, there might be great barriers for a firm to expand internationally. The CEO of Talisman Energy Inc and senior executive team have to convince the board of directors to enter Kurdistan region of Iraq. After Talisman's

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    The Effects of Reagan and Bush’s Policies in El Salvador and Iraq United States foreign policy, since the Cold War, has been driven by ideology: good versus evil, capitalism versus communism, and democracy versus totalitarianism. America’s foreign policy objective from 1945 to 1991 was to contain communism, prompting Cold War calculus – the enemy of your enemy is your friend. The United States, following Cold War calculus, allied with unscrupulous leaders opposed to communism,

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    action or movement.      The first pro-war frame is the first reasoning that the government gave for going to war with Iraq in the beginning – weapons of mass destruction. The United States had reason to believe that Sadaam Hussein, Iraq’s leader, had weapons of mass destruction and was

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    was a mix of sophisticated technology and the combined leadership and cooperation from the coalition that was used to end the war in a quick and timely manner. Which in the end probably saved thousands of lives.      In 1979 Saddam Hussien took control of Iraq, and immediately made his presence known when he killed 21 of his cabinet members. He wanted to make his country whole once again. So in 1990 he invaded Kuwait and in less than

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    Executive summary On 25 September 2017, an independence referendum was held for Iraqi Kurdistan. The results were overwhelming with 93 percent of votes in favor of independence. This referendum raised tensions between the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Government of Iraq and Iraqi Federal Forces which launched attacks on Kurdish territories (Peçanha, 2017). In mid-October, the disputed city of Kirkuk was retaken from the Kurds (Dubin, 2017). Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened

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    Overthrow Summary

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    In the book Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq, author Stephen Kinzer argued the many events that led to America’s long term failure of “regime change” in Iraq. I believe that the most compelling case for Kinzer’s argument of long term failure for the United States has to be when America tried to overthrow the leader, President Ngo Dihn Diem, of Vietnam whilst we were aiding the country. Even if America thought that getting a new leader would be better in the war against

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    The Ied Variance (KH)

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    During the U.S. war in Iraq, the IED and explosive formed penetrators (EFP) were the preferred weapon of the KH (Goodenough, 2015). Also according to a Counter Extremist Project research, (n.d.) the KH also has utilized rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) and improvised rocket-assisted mortar (IRAM) in the past against U.S. and Coalition Forces. The KH also held public funerals of their fighters and post videos of the funerals on the internet in order to attract possible recruits. The KH is known to film

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    Political Discontent Through its initial actions executed following the invasion, the United States effectively eliminated Iraq’s capacity for the provision of governance, and thus precipitated a collapse of the state. Consequently, this created an environment throughout the country characterized by widespread lawlessness, which further destabilized Iraq and created conditions favorable to the development of an insurgency. Two interlinked policy actions conducted by the Coalition Provisional Authority

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    The Relentless Machine Through satire and irony using her perspective as an Iraqi woman, Dunya Mikhail personifies war as a machine, rather than the traditional masculine perspective of heroism on the battlefield. In “The War Works Hard” war is never ending; it is relentless and without mercy as it destroys everything in its path, leaving an endless generational wake of scars among the civilian victims caught in the zone that the war has chosen. The war scars forever. Wars are often glorified in

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