POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Water Scarcity, Neoconservatism, Masculinity
9 Dec 2015
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Your choice of 2 (out of several) essay questions. Cumulative but weighted towards material from after the midterm. Rhetorical coercion as a tool to silence opposition to the 2003 iraq invasion. Bush administration fixed the meaning of 9/11 attacks and iraqi role under saddam. Key political actors shaped the discourse around foreign affairs. Us congress: republicans: yes: 215 no: 6. Us senate: republicans: yes: 48 no: 1. Us convinced u. k. as well as domestic us population that there was a. Colin powell, us secretary of state said iraq"s chemical weapons posed legitimate threat from iraq a huge threat to the us. Realists against iraq after 9/11 in 2001 agenda based on toppling hostile regimes. Realist thinkers, by and large, did not see the need to go to war. Neo-conservatives intended to advance a particular us foreign policy. This would pave the way for democracy and profit. Bush administration was full of neo-conservatives who desired war.
