Iraq`s Problems
The topic I choose was Iraq and its past and still ongoing problems with
the
United Nations. The reason I choose this topic as oppose to another
topic is war
and the United Nations has always fascinated me. With Saddam
Hussein still being
stubborn with UN weapons inspectors it was incredibly
easy to obtain information
regarding this topic. The Los Angles Times;
California; Feb 12 2000; The newest
article I attained was from the February
12 edition of the Los Angles Times. It
was entitled "Compromise Broached on
issue of Arms Inspectors in Iraq". It
discussed how Iraq is still refusing to
allow the UN weapons inspector into the
nation. It also talks about the UN
feelings on the chance of inspectors ever
being allowed to do their job.
Apparently the Vice President has no intention of
ever letting the inspectors
into the country. Last Thursday he said, " There
shall be no return of the
so-called inspection teams. We reject the infiltration
by spies using such
cover." In my humble opinion it would make life in Iraq
better if the
inspectors where just allowed into the country. Most importantly
sanctions
the UN has placed upon Iraq would be removed. Apparently the really
don’t
care about the sanctions according to their deputy foreign minister
Nizar
Hamdoun who said they can live without sanctions "forever". The UN has
a
different opinion they believe they cannot. I believe they can, they have
done
fine up to this point and I think they will continue to do fine. I think
Iraq
has many things they don’t want the UN to know about such as chemical
and
biological weapons. They are a threat and need to be dealt with
accordingly. New
York Times; New York; Feb 8, 2000; Barbara Crossette The
next article I choose
was from the February 8 issue of the New York Times.
This article was entitled
"Iraq Suspected of Secret War Effort". This
article sort of scared me. It
was about in Britain, research and intelligence
experts, also convinced that
there are more germ warfare agents left in Iraq
than previously known, have
suggested that Iraq may have produced the
organism that causes bubonic plague.
But no evidence has been published
in support of that theory, but American
experts say, and United Nations
inspectors found not trace of the plague in
Iraq. This is only because
Iraq not allowing them to inspect and when the UN
inspectors where allowed in
they where only allowed to inspect "certain"
areas. This statement made by
the so-called American experts was bull*censored*;
they only said to comfort
the American public. This expert Milton Leitenberg
from the Center for
International and Security Studies at the University of
Maryland has been
collecting information about Iraqi weapons sites and
activities from two
Iraqi defectors. Milton is really not sure if the new thing
is a virus and
not a bacterial agent but he said in an interview that Hans Blix,
the new
chief inspector for Iraq might need to focus his attention on
Biological
weapons. Milton and other British experts say inspector will have
to be more
aggressive in demanding access in Iraq. I think so to, biological
weapons are
illegal as a form of warfare since the Geneva Convention outlawed
them. And the
fact that there are not allowed to be used as a form of warfare
should be reason
enough to be more aggressive not to mention the fact that
these weapons of mass
destruction will be if not are already in the hands of
a mad man! Also according
to this article the eradication of biological
weapons in Iraq may be as
important or more important to the people of Iraq
as to the outside world.
Experts working with the United Nations Special
Commission, the first
disarmament task force created for Iraq after the Gulf
War said some of the
bacterial and viral agents Iraq was producing then had
little application for
war. Evidently a fungal agent called aflatoxin can
lead to liver cancer, and
rotavirus, which causes diarrhea in children and
the elderly. This is just
another reason for the inspectors to be more
insistent in their attempt to gain
entry into Iraq, their military compounds,
and laboratories. World History
Volume II; William J. Duiker &
Jackson J. Spielvogel Pages 1136-1137 Duiker
provided some insight on the
history of this conflict. According to Duiker
"Saddam Hussein, assumed
power in Baghdad in 1979, then accused Iran of
violating the territorial
agreement and launched an attack on his neighbor."
(1136) It seems Saddam has
been a problem from the beginning and should have
been taken care of before
he became a real threat like he is now. Duiker also
says during the war
between Iraq and Iran poison gas was used on civilians and
also defenseless
children were used in the minefields. Then in August 1990
Hussein’s
military forces went into the small country of Kuwait and claimed
that they
were stealing oil from Iraqi land. This is when the United Nations
decided to
get involved, after all not only was this small defenseless country
under
attack but our nations oil supply was endangered. Really in my opinion
this
is the main reason we got involved not for the moral reasons but
the
financial reasons. From here the book taught me no new information. We
restored
peace to Kuwait and destroyed much of Saddam’s forces. The only
problem is we
did not destroy enough of his forces because they are better
equipped than they
ever were. I have herd that Saddam if he did posses such
chemical weapons that
the article spoke of he does not have the launch
capability, meaning he does not
posses sufficient I.C.B.M.s (Inter-
Continental Ballistic Missiles) but how long
before he does posses such
devices. Only time will tell but for now it is high
time we tell Saddam and
the Iraqi government to let us in or else threaten
another military strike
maybe even nuclear attack. Annotated Bibliography The
topic I choose was Iraq
and its past and still ongoing problems with the United
Nations. The
reason I choose this topic as oppose to another topic is war and
the United
Nations has always fascinated me. With Saddam Hussein still being
stubborn
with UN weapons inspectors it was incredibly easy to obtain
information
regarding this topic. The Los Angles Times; California; Feb 12
2000; The newest
article I attained was from the February 12 edition of the
Los Angles Times. It
was entitled "Compromise Broached on issue of Arms
Inspectors in Iraq". It
discussed how Iraq is still refusing to allow the UN
weapons inspector into the
nation. It also talks about the UN feelings on the
chance of inspectors ever
being allowed to do their job. Apparently the Vice
President has no intention of
ever letting the inspectors into the country.
Last Thursday he said, " There
shall be no return of the so-called inspection
teams. We reject the infiltration
by spies using such cover." In my humble
opinion it would make life in Iraq
better if the inspectors where just
allowed into the country. Most importantly
sanctions the UN has placed upon
Iraq would be removed. Apparently the really
don’t care about the sanctions
according to their deputy foreign minister
Nizar Hamdoun who said they
can live without sanctions "forever". The UN has
a different opinion they
believe they cannot. I believe they can, they have done
fine up to this point
and I think they will continue to do fine. I think Iraq
has many things they
don’t want the UN to know about such as chemical and
biological weapons. They
are a threat and need to be dealt with accordingly. New
York Times; New
York; Feb 8, 2000; Barbara Crossette The next article I choose
was from the
February 8 issue of the New York Times. This article was entitled
"Iraq
Suspected of Secret War Effort". This article sort of scared me. It
was about
in Britain, research and intelligence experts, also convinced that
there are
more germ warfare agents left in Iraq than previously known, have
suggested
that Iraq may have produced the organism that causes bubonic plague.
But
no evidence has been published in support of that theory, but
American
experts say, and United Nations inspectors found not trace of the
plague in
Iraq. This is only because Iraq not allowing them to inspect
and when the UN
inspectors where allowed in they where only allowed to
inspect "certain"
areas. This statement made by the so-called American
experts was bull*censored*;
they only said to comfort the American public.
This expert Milton Leitenberg
from the Center for International and Security
Studies at the University of
Maryland has been collecting information
about Iraqi weapons sites and
activities from two Iraqi defectors. Milton is
really not sure if the new thing
is a virus and not a bacterial agent but he
said in an interview that Hans Blix,
the new chief inspector for Iraq might
need to focus his attention on Biological
weapons. Milton and other British
experts say inspector will have to be more
aggressive in demanding access in
Iraq. I think so to, biological weapons are
illegal as a form of warfare
since the Geneva Convention outlawed them. And the
fact that there are not
allowed to be used as a form of warfare should be reason
enough to be more
aggressive not to mention the fact that these weapons of mass
destruction
will be if not are already in the hands of a mad man! Also according
to this
article the eradication of biological weapons in Iraq may be as
important or
more important to the people of Iraq as to the outside world.
Experts
working with the United Nations Special Commission, the first
disarmament
task force created for Iraq after the Gulf War said some of the
bacterial and
viral agents Iraq was producing then had little application for
war.
Evidently a fungal agent called aflatoxin can lead to liver cancer,
and
rotavirus, which causes diarrhea in children and the elderly. This is
just
another reason for the inspectors to be more insistent in their attempt
to gain
entry into Iraq, their military compounds, and laboratories. World
History
Volume II; William J. Duiker & Jackson J. Spielvogel Pages
1136-1137 Duiker
provided some insight on the history of this conflict.
According to Duiker
"Saddam Hussein, assumed power in Baghdad in 1979,
then accused Iran of
violating the territorial agreement and launched an
attack on his neighbor."
(1136) It seems Saddam has been a problem from the
beginning and should have
been taken care of before he became a real threat
like he is now. Duiker also
says during the war between Iraq and Iran poison
gas was used on civilians and
also defenseless children were used in the
minefields. Then in August 1990
Hussein’s military forces went into the
small country of Kuwait and claimed
that they were stealing oil from Iraqi
land. This is when the United Nations
decided to get involved, after all not
only was this small defenseless country
under attack but our nations oil
supply was endangered. Really in my opinion
this is the main reason we got
involved not for the moral reasons but the
financial reasons. From here the
book taught me no new information. We restored
peace to Kuwait and destroyed
much of Saddam’s forces. The only problem is we
did not destroy enough of his
forces because they are better equipped than they
ever were. I have herd that
Saddam if he did posses such chemical weapons that
the article spoke of he
does not have the launch capability, meaning he does not
posses sufficient
I.C.B.M.s (Inter- Continental Ballistic Missiles) but how long
before he does
posses such devices. Only time will tell but for now it is high
time we tell
Saddam and the Iraqi government to let us in or else threaten
another
military strike maybe even nuclear attack. Annotated Bibliography The
topic I
choose was Iraq and its past and still ongoing problems with the
United
Nations. The reason I choose this topic as oppose to another topic
is war and
the United Nations has always fascinated me. With Saddam Hussein
still being
stubborn with UN weapons inspectors it was incredibly easy to
obtain information
regarding this topic. The Los Angles Times; California;
Feb 12 2000; The newest
article I attained was from the February 12 edition
of the Los Angles Times. It
was entitled "Compromise Broached on issue of
Arms Inspectors in Iraq". It
discussed how Iraq is still refusing to allow
the UN weapons inspector into the
nation. It also talks about the UN feelings
on the chance of inspectors ever
being allowed to do their job. Apparently
the Vice President has no intention of
ever letting the inspectors into the
country. Last Thursday he said, " There
shall be no return of the so-called
inspection teams. We reject the infiltration
by spies using such cover." In
my humble opinion it would make life in Iraq
better if the inspectors where
just allowed into the country. Most importantly
sanctions the UN has placed
upon Iraq would be removed. Apparently the really
don’t care about the
sanctions according to their deputy foreign minister
Nizar Hamdoun who
said they can live without sanctions "forever". The UN has
a different
opinion they believe they cannot. I believe they can, they have done
fine up
to this point and I think they will continue to do fine. I think Iraq
has
many things they don’t want the UN to know about such as chemical
and
biological weapons. They are a threat and need to be dealt with
accordingly. New
York Times; New York; Feb 8, 2000; Barbara Crossette The
next article I choose
was from the February 8 issue of the New York Times.
This article was entitled
"Iraq Suspected of Secret War Effort". This
article sort of scared me. It
was about in Britain, research and intelligence
experts, also convinced that
there are more germ warfare agents left in Iraq
than previously known, have
suggested that Iraq may have produced the
organism that causes bubonic plague.
But no evidence has been published
in support of that theory, but American
experts say, and United Nations
inspectors found not trace of the plague in
Iraq. This is only because
Iraq not allowing them to inspect and when the UN
inspectors where allowed in
they where only allowed to inspect "certain"
areas. This statement made by
the so-called American experts was bull*censored*;
they only said to comfort
the American public. This expert Milton Leitenberg
from the Center for
International and Security Studies at the University of
Maryland has been
collecting information about Iraqi weapons sites and
activities from two
Iraqi defectors. Milton is really not sure if the new thing
is a virus and
not a bacterial agent but he said in an interview that Hans Blix,
the new
chief inspector for Iraq might need to focus his attention on
Biological
weapons. Milton and other British experts say inspector will have
to be more
aggressive in demanding access in Iraq. I think so to, biological
weapons are
illegal as a form of warfare since the Geneva Convention outlawed
them. And the
fact that there are not allowed to be used as a form of warfare
should be reason
enough to be more aggressive not to mention the fact that
these weapons of mass
destruction will be if not are already in the hands of
a mad man! Also according
to this article the eradication of biological
weapons in Iraq may be as
important or more important to the people of Iraq
as to the outside world.
Experts working with the United Nations Special
Commission, the first
disarmament task force created for Iraq after the Gulf
War said some of the
bacterial and viral agents Iraq was producing then had
little application for
war. Evidently a fungal agent called aflatoxin can
lead to liver cancer, and
rotavirus, which causes diarrhea in children and
the elderly. This is just
another reason for the inspectors to be more
insistent in their attempt to gain
entry into Iraq, their military compounds,
and laboratories. World History
Volume II; William J. Duiker &
Jackson J. Spielvogel Pages 1136-1137 Duiker
provided some insight on the
history of this conflict. According to Duiker
"Saddam Hussein, assumed
power in Baghdad in 1979, then accused Iran of
violating the territorial
agreement and launched an attack on his neighbor."
(1136) It seems Saddam has
been a problem from the beginning and should have
been taken care of before
he became a real threat like he is now. Duiker also
says during the war
between Iraq and Iran poison gas was used on civilians and
also defenseless
children were used in the minefields. Then in August 1990
Hussein’s
military forces went into the small country of Kuwait and claimed
that they
were stealing oil from Iraqi land. This is when the United Nations
decided to
get involved, after all not only was this small defenseless country
under
attack but our nations oil supply was endangered. Really in my opinion
this
is the main reason we got involved not for the moral reasons but
the
financial reasons. From here the book taught me no new information. We
restored
peace to Kuwait and destroyed much of Saddam’s forces. The only
problem is we
did not destroy enough of his forces because they are better
equipped than they
ever were. I have herd that Saddam if he did posses such
chemical weapons that
the article spoke of he does not have the launch
capability, meaning he does not
posses sufficient I.C.B.M.s (Inter-
Continental Ballistic Missiles) but how long
before he does posses such
devices. Only time will tell but for now it is high
time we tell Saddam and
the Iraqi government to let us in or else threaten
another military strike
maybe even nuclear attack.