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...Several professors said the weapons intelligence cited by the Bush administration as reason for war left them uncertain about speaking against the invasion??especially once the intelligence was presented to the United Nations by Colin Powell, the widely-respected secretary of state at the time...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Sound of Silence | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

...remembered that the invasion did indeed bring definite advantages to some. These include the Kurds, now safe and relatively secure in their largely autonomous and well-protected enclave in the northeast. They also include some Shiites who gained freedom from persecution and opportunities to advance their interests after the invasion??benefits that may still seem to outweigh the danger and destruction going on all around them. Think of those, for example, who were able to take advantage of the recent American disarmament of Sunni fighters in Baghdad to seize Sunni homes, thus turning Baghdad into an almost exclusively...

Author: By Roger Owen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Five Years of War in Iraq | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...thus deepened existing animosity towards America and reinforced the mandate of international jihad. Indeed, according to MIPT data, acts of jihadist terrorism on Western citizens and interests outside of Afghanistan and Iraq have risen by 25 percent since the invasion??a statistic that provides compelling evidence for correlation between America’s heedless interventionism and the recent boom in global terrorism...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: The Flaws of Interventionism | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

France is not at all threatened by “massive immigration from countries of the Third world,” as Adomanis states, unreflectively parroting one of French politician Jean-Marie Le Pen’s pet arguments. There is no “invasion?? of foreigners in France at the moment. French immigration laws are extremely strict. Most of the rioters come from families who have been in France for 30 or 40 years and have full French citizenship. Why are some French citizens called “foreigners” when they are not? This...

Author: By Virginie Greene and Alice A. Jardine | Title: France’s Riots Were Not Merely Due To Cultural Heterogeneity | 11/28/2005 | See Source »

...collaborated primarily through e-mail, which establishes Asian American X as a thoroughly modern enterprise, from conception to delivery. Han first became aware of Fong’s “Invasion?? through a listserv, and Hsu and Han relied almost exclusively on e-mail correspondence during the compilation process...

Author: By Marie E. Burks, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Same Race, Different Experiences | 10/8/2004 | See Source »

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