Iraq war, 9/11,and George W. Bush

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7:17 PM Tue Oct 30 82% instructure-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com 3 of 3 p. 5: What did the September 2006 report by the Senate Intelligence Committee reveal with regard to what the CIA had learned fours years earlier from “a member of Saddam's inner circle about connections between Hussein and bin-Laden? CG p 5: In August 2003 a Washington Post poll showed that nearly % of Americans believed that was involved in the 9/11 attacks. A month later Vice President Cheney said on NBC television that is the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault for many years but most especially on 9/11.” This caused such an uproar in the previously docile press corps that was soon forced to admit for the first time that "we have no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11.” p 6: In 2005 the Sunday Times of London reported that US intelligence on Iraq in 2002 was What was the reporter's source? How does this relate to the findings of the September 2006 Senate Intelligence Committee Report summarized at the top of p 5? p 6: Howard Zinn stated that “wars waged by nations...are times more deadly for innocent people than the attacks of terrorists, vicious as they are.” He was willing to acknowledge that deaths of innocent people resulting from military attacks on “suspected terrorists” may not be “intentional,” but he also asserted that they are not “accidental.” He concluded that the proper description of these deaths is and therefore that the way we attack suspected terrorists is “as as a deliberate attack on civilians.” 6 p 6: The prestigious British medical journal, The Lancet, published a peer-reviewed statistical analysis based on data collected through extensive fieldwork in Iraq. It estimated the most likely number of “excess Iraqi deaths as a consequence of war” during the 40 months following the invasion i.e. from March 2003 through July 2006 to be This equals approximately _% of the population (or one of every 40 Iraqis alive in 2003). - 3 - 7:17 PM Tue Oct 30 82% instructure-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com 2 of 3 5. Answer the following questions about Iraq's neighboring states: (a) The post-invasion empowerment of the group identified in Q3(a) above greatly expanded the regional influence of a state hostile to the US. [Hint: Use Figure G-10 in the textbook's introductory chapter to determine which Iraqi neighbor is dominated by the sect in Q1a.] Note: This predictable consequence of the US invasion of Iraq was clearly contrary to US interests. So the decision to invade Iraq made no sense whatsoever unless the Bush Administration also planned to overthrow any other US adversary that would have been substantially strengthened by the overthrow of Iraq's government. Indeed, retired General Wesley Clark stated in 2007 that inside sources told him that the Bush Administration made plans in the wake of 9/11 to invade both Iraq and Iran (and also Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, and Sudan). Instead, the military got bogged down in Iraq and could not proceed with the plan. At that time a revealing quip frequently repeated inside the White house was that “anyone can go to Baghdad but ‘real men’ go to Tehran.” (b) Three of Iraq's neighbors opposed the US invasion of Iraq at least in part because some of their own regions have majority populations of the group that you identified in 4(c) above. They did not want this group to be able to establish its own independent state on a piece of Iraqi territory, a state that would be prone to irredentism directed at them. The three neighbors of Iraq who share the prospect of becoming targets of this irredentism are and [Hint: To find the answers, look at the green line on Reference Map #2 showing the Kurdish homeland frontier.] If you have been able to answer Q 2-5 above, then you can be confident that you understand the geopolitical context of the war in Iraq. If not, you should still be able to read the packet and answer the question below. Just be sure to ask for clarification before the Unit 3 exam. Now go to the packet. Answer the following questions as you read the specified pages: pp 1-2: According to George Bush in his State of the Union address of January 28, 2003, three factors justified the US invasion of Iraq that began on March 20: 2. 3. Place an asterisk to the left of the justification for which Bush provided the greatest detail. pp 3-5: For the three factors you listed above, mark a check to the left of any justification for which our troops found supporting evidence during or after the invasion. Mark an “X” beside any justification for which no such evidence was found despite over a billion dollars being spent on a massive 18-month search. Also mark an “X” beside any of Bush's justification that was actually contradicted by subsequent releases of pre-war intelligence. - 2 - 3. Examine the file titled Reference Map: Iraq's Ethno-Sectarian Regions, which accompanies this study guide, while you read the following description of the map: This map shows the regions of Iraq that have different population majorities defined by the combination of religious sect (Shia or Sunni) and ethnicity (Arab or Kurd). The Shia Arabs, who comprise at least 60% of Iraq's national population, are actually the majority group only within the purple territory. In the green territory the majority are Sunni Arabs and in the orange territory the majority are Sunni Kurds, but each group comprises only 15-20% of Iraq's national population. Striped patterns indicate strongly mixed areas. Baghdad sits on the Shia-Sunni divide, but the sectarian cleansing of the Sunni by the Shia has made it an overwhelmingly Shia city. Iraq's smaller religious and ethnic minorities do not appear on this map because they have no majority territory (or none large enough to be visible at this scale). 4. Answer the following questions about ethno-sectarian groups within Iraq: (a) The US invaded Iraq in 2003 with a commitment to overthrow Saddam Hussein and establish an elected government. So, as the majority, the knew in 2003 that they were going to come to rule Iraq despite never having held power. (b) Saddam Hussein belonged to the other Arab group the So they knew in 2003 that they were going to lose power for the first time since independence. Even during British and Ottoman times, they had been the group favored by the imperial ruler. (C) With the coming overthrow of Iraq's tyrannical dictatorship and the clear prospect of some new democratic form of national government, the foresaw in 2003 the opportunity to establish at least their own strongly autonomous regional government and perhaps even a completely sovereign state.
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