Glen Gemeniano
             COM 100
             Rebuttal (Persuasive speech)
            
             Topic - The use of United States militray action against Iraq.(con)(rebuttal)
            
             Main pupose- To pursuade my audience that Military action against Iraq is neccesary to maintain international stablity.
            
             Specific Purpose - To pursuade my audience that bombing Iraq would send a strong message to terrorist nations to stop their activities.
            
             Introduction
             Use the movie "Seige" as an example to illustrate the possiblities of terrrorist activities in the future. Tell how the movie portrayed Arabs. Show similarities between the movie and real life.
            
             Body
             According to Policy.com's article entitled Age of Anonymous Terrorism
             Aug. 12, 1998
            
             Terrorism and warfare were engaged in primarily by states or state-sponsored groups, at an international level. Today, however, violence is more likely to be initiated by groups not affiliated with any government, such as ideologically based terrorist groups not associated with the governments of their nations, revolutionaries within a state or groups based in several countries.
            
            
             Incedents are:
            
             The bombings of have Pan American Flight 103 been blamed on Islamic terrorist group, Hamas. The varying responses to terrorist activities -- military force and international cooperation prompted by sanctions -- illustrate only two of many methods governments use to counter terrorist activity and establish international standards of justice. While policy-makers disagree on the effectiveness and morality of the use of force in response to force, some argue that the criminal mindset of a terrorist or genocidal leader will respond only to the threat of force, not to diplomatic overtures. The recent bombing so of U.S. embassies of Sudan and Libya have prompted the United States to bomb those countries.
            
             We need to bomb Iraq because we need to stop Islamic terrorism. The first step in fighting this very dangerous threat to our nati...