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• “Peace is Earned Through Strength”– Increased Military
Budget • Global War on Terror• Bush Doctrine
– Authored by Cheney & Paul Wolfowitz
– Actions that will protect the security and democracy of Americans are justified
New President-Hu Jintao April 1-US Spy Plane
collides w/Chinese fighter Emergency Landing on
Hainan Island Held for 12 Days,
US paid $34, 567.89 Plane returned 2 months
later In over 100 boxes!
• 8:45am-American Airlines 11 from Boston hits WTC (North)
• 9:08am-United 175 from Boston hits WTC (South)
• 9:43am-American 77 from Dulles hits Pentagon
• 10:10am-United 93 from Newark crash lands into Somerset, PA
2,999 people died, 24 are still missing 246 on the 4 Planes, 2603 in NYC, 125 at Pentagon
All Civilian International air traffic was banned from landing for 3 days
“Terrorism can shake the foundations of our tallest buildings but it can’t shake the resolve of the American people.
Approval Rating hit 86%, highest ever
• October 7- US invasion of Afghanistan– Destruction of Terrorist
training camps– Capture of Al-Qaeda
Leaders (bin Laden)
• Nov. 21-Battle of Tora Bora-remove Taliban from Kabul
• President Hamid Karzai• Operation Mountain Thrust
(2006)-renew attacks against the Taliban
Iran Iraq North Korea Cuba Libya Syria
President Vladimir Putin
Consolidation of Democratic Power? Next Tsar of Russia
SORT Treaty signed May 24, 2002 Limits Nuclear
arsenals to 1700 by 2012
No longer recognizes ABM Treaty
UN Resolution 1441-No tolerance or defiance of international law (WMD)
Reasons for War-WMD and ties to 9/11 CIA was continuing to investigate “allegations
of yellow-cake uranium sales in Niger” Thomas Wilson and Valerie Plame (CIA) No real connection was ever found… Hans Blix was never aware of any indications
of a nuclear program that could attack the US
• Invasion began on March 20, 2003
• Led by General Tommy Franks
• Baghdad falls on April 9• Successes
– Operations over May 1, 2003– Uday & Qusay killed,
Saddam Executed (Dec. 30, 2006)
– Iraq becomes a democracy in 2004
– Current leader-Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki
Rumsfeld Doctrine Lighter, Faster Military
w/supporting air strikes Lack of Ground Forces to
Secure Borders & Cities Debaathification
Removal of Saddam’s personal army & anyone involved within his former government
Abu Ghraib Prison Scandal
• Troops-680,000 invasion
• 540,000 US• 148 US Dead (36
Friendly Fire)• 30 Supporting Nations
– 52,000 Saudi Arabia– 43,000 United Kingdom– 33,600 Egypt
• Cost $61 Billion ($7 Billion to US)
• 6 Weeks of Combat
• Troops-300,000 invasion• 165,000 Current• 3915 US Soldiers Dead• 17 Supporting Nations
Today– South Korea 933– Romania 397– El Salvador 280
• Cost $400 Billion to US• 3 Months of Active
Combat
Kim Jong –Il Walked away from 1994
Agreement $4 Billion, Oil, Light-water
reactors Oct. 6, 2006-Detonated
Nuclear Device (Underground) May 7, 2007-Agreed to shut
down reactors for release of frozen bank funds
US, China, North Korean Deal September 2, 2007-Agreed to
dismantle nuclear program by the end of 2007.
Bush’s Desire for a Palestinian State by 2005
Denounced Arafat (Died in 2003)
Israel PM-Ehud Olmert Palestinian President-
Mahmoud Abbas Israel must halt West
Bank activity Palestinian must halt
and dismantle all terrorist activities
Colonel Muhammar Quadhafi
Agreed in 2003 to disarm all of their WMD
Allowed weapons inspectors in (UN)
In 2006, agreed to full diplomatic ties with the US (off Axis of Evil…)
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
US calls for a stop to production of all nuclear weapons
In 2003, Iran stopped making a bomb Continued enrichment
of uranium Continued long range
missile system
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