The Persian Gulf War Why Did the US Army stop short of Baghdad in Operation Desert Storm and leave Iraqi Shi'ites and Kurds more or less alone to face the wrath of Saddam Hussein? Why did a coalition of over 30 nations find it was necessary to go to war to help Kuwait after it was invaded...

Through what in retrospect seems to be a highly manipulative and dishonest media campaign, George Bush Jr. and the United States armed forces have turned their focus on the "democratization" of Iraq. Once the necessary evidence needed to support the idea that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons of ...

IRAQ VS. THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: HOW MUCH LONGER WILL INNOCENT PEOPLE CONTINUE TO DIE UNTIL SANCTIONS ARE LIFTED? In the year 1990 the Middle East was in a tense position after the attack of Kuwait by its Iraq neighbours and its' President Sadaam Hussein. This was only to beginning of w...

The state of Iraq has a turbulent history and has rarely stayed the same in its long history of different sovereign rulers over the territory. The battleground for different civilizations over centuries of political and religious rivalry, Iraq now finds itself divided into three distinct groups: the...

You probably remember what you were doing when the Twin Towers were attacked, and some remember the day that Pearl Harbor was hit by surprise, but I'm sure that if asked what you were doing on the night of August 1, 1990, your reply would be a little more ambiguous than on the other dates. On t...

September 11, 2001 is one of the most surreal experiences I ever had. I was employed at bank located one block away from the World Trade Center when the planes hit the two towers. Pentagon was also attacked that day which killed hundreds of officers who worked for the US Department of Defense. Wi...

I appreciate what the men did for our country way back when, but those wars you spoke of weren't fought over nothing.If the leader of a world power were to publically annouce that you were Evil and must be destroyed and then began destroying countries that too were Evil, wouldn't you want to protect...

ACADEMIC WRITING Writing an Essay of Argumentation "Now this is the way I see it..." Discussion: First, choose a topic for which you are able to write the following: (a) a proposition or main point that you will argue for, (b) argument(s) supporting your proposition, (c) argument(s) ...