How Iraq Has Affected the U.S.

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This paper first describes the recent history of relations between the United States and Iraq and Iraqi relations with its neighboring countries. The paper then explains the foundation for the original U.S. intervention in Iraq and points out that the motivation for involvement was not so much to fight terrorism as it was to safeguard the vast oil reserves there.

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"America has positioned itself as the Policeman of the World. We have made it our political, if not exactly our moral "obligation" to make every possible attempt to avert war, bloodshed, and the dangers of an outbreak for ethnic or other reasons that would put into imbalance the current line-up of nations. While we intruded in Somalia and Ethiopia, in Grenada and Panama and, to some extent, in Haiti, it is in Iraq that American politicians seem to see the greatest danger."

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