Iraq Liberation Act of 1998

Examples of Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 in the following topics:

• The Clinton Administration

  • This act received support from both political parties.
  • He also signed the reversal of the Glass-Steagall Act, which was designed to prevent financial institutions from getting too big to fail.
  • However, Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act, considered by many to be a blow to the LGBT rights movement.
  • Clinton oversaw the signing of the 1993 Oslo Accords between the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in Washington, D.C., which aimed at establishing peace between the warring nations by granting limited self-government of Palestinians in parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
  • The Clinton presidency also saw the passage and signing of the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, which was a bipartisan measure expressing support for regime change in Iraq.

• The Middle East

  • President Clinton was involved with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, confrontation with Iraq, and normalization of relations with Iran.
  • Secret negotiations mediated by Clinton between Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat led to a historic declaration of peace in September 1993, called the Oslo Accords.
  • As the peace process came to a stall, Clinton invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to peace talks on the Wye River in October 1998.
  • Clinton was also confronted with problems in Iraq.
  • In addition to UN inspections, no-fly zones over Iraq were established by the U.S. and its allies to protect the Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan and the Shiites in southern Iraq from aerial attacks by the Iraqi government.

• The War on Terror

  • In February 1998, Osama bin Laden signed a fatwā, as the head of al-Qaeda, declaring war on the West and Israel.
  • The Iraq War began in March 2003 with an air campaign, which was immediately followed by a U.S.
  • The Bush administration also stated the Iraq war was part of the War on Terror, something later contested.
  • On 1 May 2003, Bush announced that major combat operations in Iraq had ended.
  • Iraq's former president, Saddam Hussein, was captured by U.S. forces in December 2003.

• The Republican Party

  • American conservatism of the Republican Party is not wholly based upon rejection of the political ideology of liberalism, as many principles of American conservatism are based upon classical liberalism.
  • Rather the Republican Party's conservatism is largely based upon its support of classical principles against the modern liberalism of the Democratic Party that is considered American liberalism in contemporary American political discourse.
  • The main cause was opposition to the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise by which slavery was kept out of Kansas.
  • Bush administration, neoconservative officials of the Departments of Defense and State helped to plan and promote the Iraq War.
  • During Bush's State of the Union speech of January 2002, he named Iraq, Iran, and North Korea as states that "constitute an axis of evil" and "pose a grave and growing danger".

• Propaganda and the Mass Media

  • The theory posits that the way in which news is structured (e.g. through advertising, concentration of media ownership, government sourcing) creates an inherent conflict of interest which acts as propaganda for undemocratic forces.
  • Wright Mills, in which Mills calls attention to the interwoven interests of the leaders of the military, corporate, and political elements of society and suggests that the ordinary citizen is a relatively powerless subject of manipulation by those entities.
  • During the Iraq invasion (2003), the media's failure to report on the legality of the war, despite overwhelming public opinion in favor of only invading Iraq with UN authorization, minimized public awareness and outcry over that illegality.
  • According to the liberal watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting, there was a disproportionate focus on pro-war sources while total anti-war sources only made up 10% of the media (with only 3% of US sources being anti-war).
  • Evaluate the impact of mass media as propaganda, particularly in terms of the "power elite"

• Interventions in Latin America and the Middle East

  • defense treaty called the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance of 1947, or the "hemispheric defense" treaty, was the formalization of the Act of Chapultepec, adopted at the Inter-American Conference on the Problems of War and Peace in 1945 in Mexico City.
  • When radical revolutions brought radical anti-Western regimes to power in Egypt in 1954, in Syria in 1963, in Iraq in 1968, and in Libya in 1969, the Soviet Union allied itself with Arab rulers such as Nasser of Egypt and Hussein of Iraq.
  • From the 1970s the Palestinians, led by Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization, resorted to a prolonged campaign against Israel and against American, Jewish and western targets generally, as a means of weakening Israeli resolve and undermining western support for Israel.
  • Due to many of the frantic events of the late 1970s in the Middle East it culminated in the Iran–Iraq War between neighboring Iran and Iraq.
  • Iraq invaded Iranian Khuzestan in 1980 at the behest of the latter's chaotic state of country due to the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

• Clinton and Domestic Policy

  • The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 was an Act of Congress dealing with crime and law enforcement.
  • Following the 101 California Street shooting, the 1993 Waco Siege, and other high-profile instances of violent crime, the Act expanded federal law in several ways.
  • Other parts of the Act provided for a greatly expanded federal death penalty, new classes of individuals banned from possessing firearms, the elimination of higher education for inmates, and a variety of new crimes defined in statutes relating to immigration law, hate crimes, sex crimes, and gang-related crime.
  • The increase in incarceration as a result of the Act led to prison overcrowding.
  • One America in the 21st Century staff with President Clinton in June 1998

• Electoral Districts

  • In the executive model the election commission is directed by a cabinet minister as part of the executive branch of government, and may include local government authorities acting as agents of the central body.
  • In Hong Kong, the magnitude ranged from 3 to 5 in the 1998 election, but from 5 to 9 in the 2012.
  • Another example of Illinois gerrymandering is the 17th congressional district in the western portion of the state.
  • An example of "cracking" style of gerrymandering.
  • The urban (and mostly liberal) concentration of Columbus, Ohio, located at the center of the map in Franklin County, is split into thirds, with each segment attached to—and outnumbered by—largely conservative suburbs.

• Clinton and Foreign Policy

  • In September 1993, Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel, and Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, signed the Oslo Accords at the White House, granting some self-rule to Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied territories of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
  • Each was occupied by a number of ethnic groups, some of which shared a history of hostile relations.
  • Four years later, the United States, acting with other NATO members, launched an air campaign against Serbian-dominated Yugoslavia to stop it from attacking ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
  • In 1998, while visiting Rwanda, Clinton apologized for having done nothing to save the lives of the 800,000 massacred in 100 days of genocidal slaughter.
  • Senator Sam Nunn, and retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell to Haiti.