Iraq:

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Iraq
An in depth look at the lives of the people,
specifically the women
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Ashley MacDonald
A Presentation by
The Metropolitan Learning Center,
Bloomfield, Connecticut, USA
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Iraq
Iraq is currently under reconstruction, in which
everything that once was, is now being changed
and altered into a new way of living for the
Iraqi people.
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America's Goal
The United States goal in Iraq is to create a
democratic society for the people of Iraq, and to
specifically help the people escape the brutality
of their former dictatorial leader, Saddam
Hussein.
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Question...
Do you support how America is fighting the war on
terrorism? Why, or why not?
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Answers...
We think that America chose to fight with
terrorism, but in reality they support terrorism
and provide them with what they want.
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People in our country are not an enemy and foe
of the American people. These are just political
ideas. Zahra Ansari, Behpooyan High
School, Tehran, Iran
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Question...
Do you support how America is fighting the war on
terrorism? Why, or why not?
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Answers...
Yes, because if they dont go to Iraq and fight
them, they will come to United States. If they
attack the large cities again, a lot of people
are going to die. That will make it worse.
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No, because if Americans attack Iraq, they kill
people who dont agree with terrorists. Also,
other countries armies go to Iraq to help them.
Some of them are already dead, and some of them
already left Iraq, because the citizens in their
country dont like war. The Northwest
School, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Question...
Should the U.S. have invaded Iraq?
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Answers...
Yes, we think that the US can invade Iraq. But
we advised both countries that they should show
their white flags to each other. Zahra
Ansari, Behpooyan High School, Tehran, Iran
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Our opinions are, America can attack terrorists,
but America shouldnt attack Iraq. America is
important for other countries, and America should
be a good example but when America attacks the
other country, then the other countries will
learn bad things and they will also attack other
countries.
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America doesnt have obvious clues to attack
Iraq. If they have obvious clues to attack Iraq,
then it is okay. For example, if another country
attacks Iraq, then we think America can attack
Iraq to escape them.
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I dont think America has to fight with Iraq. I
think the other country has to help Iraq. The
military has to go back to America. They
shouldnt get oil from them. If America really
wants to stop the terrorism, they have to stop
the war first.
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America is the most powerful and strong country,
so America has to be an example of peace for
other countries. Now Korea is helping America,
but I think Korea has to request to America to
stop the war. I think America has to stop the
war. The Northwest School, Seattle, Washington,
USA
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• About the terrorism we think that this is
  another way of making nations slaves. Especially
  in the case of United States. You didnt have any
  proof that Saddam had nuclear weapons and even if
  they had, the U.S. A. does too, and these weapons
  are more powerful than the weapons of Hiroshima
  and Nagasaki. We are not safe anywhere especially
  in the streets.
• Brazil

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• Our opinion of the war is not very good. We
  think that war against terror is necessary, but
  not the way your country is doing it. The war in
  the Iraq is also not acceptable because the
  reasons for it were just the petroleumwhere are
  the weapons of mass destruction? And what did
  Saddam Hussein have to do with Al Qaeda?
• Alexander von Bullion and Moritz Drangmeister,
  Germany

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Iraqi Women
Iraqi women once enjoyed basic rights, that many
other women in Islamic societies did not get, and
Iraqi women were once looked up to by many
surrounding Muslim societies.
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A Thought...
How many rights did the people, especially the
women really have under the rule of a brutal
dictator who in history has abused and tortured
his own people?
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Question...
In your country, do men and women have equal
rights, or are there differences between how men
and women are treated and what they can and can
not do?
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Answers...
Korea has almost equal rights, but we are not
perfectly equal. Sometimes when a company engages
an employee, and if they are a man, then they get
the scholarship, but if they are a woman, the
company needs to see the face of the woman. If
there are two women and one is ugly, but went to
a good school, and the other is pretty and went
to a poor school, the company hires the pretty
woman.
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If a woman has a baby, they cannot join any
company, and when a woman becomes an employee of
a company, they have to bring coffee and other
non-important things to the men. In Taiwan we are
the same! The Northwest School, Seattle,
Washington, USA
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• In our Country men and women have got equal
  rights. Of course there are jobs which are
  dominated by men or women but woman are not
  oppressed or disadvantaged.
• Alexander von Bullion and Moritz Drangmeister,
  Germany

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• In our country we don't have equal right
  between men and women, because women have many
  maternity rights after their babies are born. So
  the companies don't want to hire women workers
  and they want to hire almost only men.
• Brazil

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The Future?
The future for Iraqi women right now is unknown,
only time will tell if the Iraqi women gain and
retain their rights throughout Iraq.
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The possibilities are endless for Iraqi women,
and the Iraqi people and it will take many
months, to years to create a strong,
well-developed Iraq that respects all of its
people, and is successful and a joyous place once
again.
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Bibliography

• http//www.google.com
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• Iraqi People
• Iraqi Women
• Iraq
• http//www.iearn.org
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