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The Pros And Cons Of The Iraq War

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The word jihad does not only mean “a struggle or fight against the enemies of Islam”, but also mean “a spiritual struggle against one’s sin”. The definition of a crusade is: “to take part in an organization concerning a social, political or religious issue. There have been many points in history when a holy war has been waged. The Holocaust and WWII have not been called a Holy war, but millions of Jews died because the Nazi party thought their religion was wrong. Today, America is suspicious of all Muslims and we call them terrorists. The Iraq war could be called a holy war because America attacked Iraq and even though they had little or nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks in 2001, and thousands more innocents died. Before the Iraq War, President George Busch said that “This Crusade, this war on terror is going to take awhile.” …show more content…

The pope had a lot of power and influence over the kings and lords, who had influence over their subjects. Those lords and kings were fighting a lot between each other, and so, Pope Urban II thought to pull the attention elsewhere. So, he gave his speech at Claremont, France, and urged the people of Europe to go and get the holy lands back. Wars are very expensive, and how did the entire continent pay for it? The soldiers mortgaged everything that they had their houses, belongings, their land and livestock. All the money went to the church, and that meant that the money was then spent at the Pope’s jurisdiction. That also meant that the Pope was very rich. The Pope didn’t want infighting, and a war benefited the church, which benefited him, so he, made the Muslims look like enemies, and that started the entire crusades that lasted for two hundred

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Because of his straightforward military activism the second crusade began to fail and he had When the byzantine empire was finally being invaded they retreated and went back for more crusades against political needs. This lead to the next crusades and finally during the fourth crusade. Pope Innocent III had approached the byzantine empire to ensure a crusade to conquer egypt because of the central muslim power of the country. This then led to the army arriving at venice however they were quite smaller than they had thought since the money was not available to recruit the venetian forces. As we can infer the crusade still went in order to plan but to win over the venetians they had to help them conquer a city state port of Zara which had been rebelling.

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In 1095 on November 27 in Clermont,France, Pope Urban the II called for a Crusade to help the Byzantines and free the city of Jerusalem. The official start date was set as August 15, 1096. This order little did he know would be the cause of a battle that turned into 9 war’s that last for nearly 200 years. This event in history clearly has a outcome that is way more negative than positive. Have you ever imagined being in the middle of a 200 year war people dropping like flies just because of an argument over one city?

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Muslims holding control of Jerusalem angered Christians. The Byzantine empire asked the Pope of the Western empire for help in taking control back. The Pope agreed and promised wealth and forgiven sins for those who fought in the war. Even though Christians completely showed their loyalty to Christ during the Crusades

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Over time during these Crusades, the role of the Pope started to become more and more powerful as they held responsibilities. As Kings and Nobles would sell their land to their churches. As the Crusades went on, they held power over the public, taking the role of a leader. The Churches became a safe haven for many people. (Docs B and C)

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Pope Urban II’s speech at Clermont in 1095 was a call to crusade given outdoors to the nobles, commoners and church leaders of the Western European Christians (the Franks). The people were moved by this speech and it changed history, launching the first crusade to capture Jerusalem from the Muslim Turks. After hearing Pope Urban II’s speech, thousands of Western European Christians were moved to embark on the dangerous journey and fight in the crusade. I believe the main reasons they were moved and persuaded to fight was; 1) they felt it was their Christian duty, 2) Pope Urban promised them absolution for their sins and 3) they felt compelled to defend Christianity, their holy land and the Eastern Christians.

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A series of religious conflicts known as the Crusades were started, encouraged, and occasionally even led by the Catholic Church. The initial argument began over who had control of the holy land but was escalated by Pope Urban ii, in his Speech at council of Clermont in 1095. Urban ii’s speech was to excite his followers to be prepared for the crusades and the destruction they may cause. He stood in front of them and gave his words of encouragement to them but had secretive intentions to motivate them to fight. His followers then listened to him and fought for their beliefs as Pope Urban ii suggested and amounted to an export of violence.

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The United States fought unnecessary wars in Vietnam and Iraq. The war on communism, in Vietnam, severed the United States compared to the war on terrorism, in Iraq. During both wars the U.S. Military spent millions to billions of money, deaths were extremely high, and both failed to accomplish their purpose. Firstly the Iraq War dealt massive harm to the United States in multiple ways.

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The Crusades were expeditions done by the Roman Catholic Church in alliance with Middle-Age Kingdoms and Empires. There were a total of nine Crusades during the period of 1095 to 1291, led by Saladin, Richard I "the Lionheart" of England, Pope Urban II, Frederick I the Holy Roman Emperor, etc. At first, the Crusades were a way to fight back the Muslims for their conquest of Jerusalem. The idea of the Crusade was a very good marketing strategy by Pope Urban II. It was told that any Crusader would be rewarded a place in heaven, and forgiven their sins.

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A US occupation of Iraq, which holds 17% of the oil in the Middle East, would have resulted in the United States holding power over a substantial amount of oil, decreasing American reliance and spending on non-Iraqi suppliers, overall benefiting the economy (Renner and Aarts). However, “the United States would be left ‘owning’ [Iraq,] a country of 22 million people ravaged by more than two decades of war” (Pollack 14) without the trust or support of the Iraqi population. For that reason, the United States “would have been subjected to constant hit-and-run guerrilla attacks” (Zunes) by Iraqi militants (Zunes), who would have been willing to sacrifice their lives to defend their country from what they saw as “imperialist occupiers” ("Gulf War 1991: Exit"). This would turn the conflict into a counterinsurgency war, in which American casualties could have reached up to 30,000 (CIA), and the entirety of Iraq could have been destroyed.

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According to “Secret History of the Iraq War”. The threat during the end of the war has not disappeared, but it has slowly taken its impact on society, and also slowly changed for the best. As a result, this war could not just be settled with a treaty or a contract, why you say? These actions can’t compete with the levels of radicals. Iraq could have taken out the United States before they invaded, and with the possibility of them having weapons, war was the only option at the moment.

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Background Information of the Iraq War The Iraq war was an American-led coalition force that was engaged in combat with Saddam Hussein's regime, which was part of a broader initiative to combat terrorism, known as the Global War on Terror. Tensions began to arise in 2002, when Iraq was found to be in breach of the terms of the Gulf War Settlement, which required compliance with the United Nations’ weapon inspections and no-fly zones. Consequently, Saddam Hussein's regime prevented weapons inspectors from accessing numerous military bases and repeatedly violated the no-fly zones that had been established to monitor and enforce compliance. Furthermore, the Central Intelligence Agency ( the CIA) informed the United States government that Iraq was actively pursuing the development and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), including nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. However, it later emerged that this report contained an error and that the evidence of weapons of mass destruction was almost entirely false.

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“Going to war was the only unselfish thing I have ever done for humanity,” said David Niven. In Iraq, March 2003, the U.S went to war with ISIS. George W. Bush said the Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, was hiding nuclear weapons to kill a lot of people. When Barack Obama was elected in 2008, he brought the last U.S troops home. He then took the rest of the troops out in 2011 because it cost too much money for too many deaths.

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“My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger.” (President Bush) In 2003, when President Bush declared war on Iraq, he argued that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and intended to use them on the United States. I think Iraq did not have these weapons because there were no real indicators of them; most of the alleged WMDs were left over from the Iraq-Iran war, and we didn't end up finding any. I believe America used the 9/11 bombings as an excuse to invade Iraq.

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Regaining control of the Holy Land was a way of showing the emperors that the popes had jurisdiction in their

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The Middle East has always been considered as one of the most volatile and complex regions in the world. After the 9/11 attacks by Al-Qaeda, a new era of inequilibrium was arguably introduced. Thereon, the world was never the same. As a case in point, Iraq, with its strategic worth and regional status had suffered at the heart of this tension for seven years (2003 - 2011). During which, it has been ravaged by a vicious cycle of warfare, sectarian strife, and mostly, an unprovoked invasion launched by the Bush Administration to eliminate the threat raised by its-ex Sunni leader: Saddam Hussein, who was charged of processing and developing weapons of mass destruction.

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