IRAQ WAR

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IRAQ WAR
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• Where are we?
• How did we get here?
• Where do we go from here?

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Where are we?

• 500 billion
• 134 million people with health care
• 200 million children health care
• 70 million university students full scholarship
• Almost 4,000 American soldiers dead
• 81-89 thousand Iraqi civilians dead

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How did we get here?

• I. Confluence of factors
• Gulf War
• Neo-conservative ideas
• New American century
• New American Army
• 2000 elections
• 9/11

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Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney
Donald Rumsfeld
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How did we get here?

• Decision making
• Structure of government
• Rivalries

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How did we get here?

• Decision making
• Structure of government
• Rivalries
• The role of the press
• War and occupation

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Case for war

• Weapons of mass destruction
• Link with Al-Qaeda
• Iraq as a beacon of democracy

Powell at the UN (Feb 5, 2003)
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Paul Bremmer
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Where do we go from here?

• New Middle East
• The rise of Iran
• The role of the US

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