Claudia Quammen

04-25-03

Political Science

                        

                                War With Iraq

        President George Bush has stood in front of cameras numerous times and stated that his reasoning for wanting to go to war with Iraq is because Iraq, under the reign of Saddam Hussein refuses to follow the rules that where laid out for them by the UN Security council. Saddam still continued to produce weapons of mass destruction and President Bush urged other countries to be afraid that those weapons would be used against them in a terror attack. Most countries didn’t believe that the United States had significant proof of Saddam’s continuing efforts to make these weapons, so the Bush administration did some investigating and presented it two or three times to the Security council. The administration wanted to show that not only was Saddam creating these terrible and destructive weapons, but he was actually testing them out on his own people. There were accounts that up to 10,000 people had gone unaccounted for, they seemed to just vanish into thin air never to be heard from again. The rumors were that Saddam would test different types of torturing techniques on people and see the effects of different nerve gases.

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        The countries that did not lend their support for an attack on Iraq were generally just not impressed with the “proof” that the United States had presented to them. France stood to face a financial disaster if they participated in the war with Iraq because Iraq was France’s biggest client when it came to buying weapons. It was also speculated that the United States wanted to take over Iraq not for humanitarian purposes, but for the oil. Some countries just didn’t want to be apart of helping the United States do that.

        North Korea couldn’t really get involved in disarming ...

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