Letter: Why we attacked IraqFrancis ClarkLowes
Yet the events of early 2003 are pointing in another direction: a number of democracies argued for war and attacked Iraq while the majority of their citizens had spoken out against military action (Gallup, 2003). Such blatant discrepancy between government and citizens had not been foreseen in ...
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because if you go back to the early 90s, when NATO began to talk about expanding and going out of area, the US wanted to go invade Iraq in the early 90s, this, at this point, there was a huge resistance among the Europeans, but then, and also for years, ...
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