Word: patriotism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Desert Storm air campaign blasted Iraqi defenses in Kuwait, Bush flew to Andover, Mass., for a rally at the Raytheon plant, which manufactured the Patriot Air Defense System. In the middle of a rousing speech, he noted, almost as an aside, "There's another way for the bloodshed to stop, and this is for the Iraqi military and the Iraqi people to take matters into their own hands and force Saddam Hussein, the dictator, to step aside...
Instead of cataloguing books, many librarians now spend much of their day shredding business records so that the government can’t get its hands on them. These librarians are protesting the PATRIOT Act, a consortium of legislation passed after the Sept. 11 attacks, which has enlarged the federal government’s powers in the fight against terrorism. The powers granted by the PATRIOT Act are set to expire in 2005. But if Senator Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, gets his way, protesting librarians may have much shredding ahead of them...
That information has included everything from announcements of rallies on other campuses to the contents of the Patriot...
...After the Patriot Act, people started coming in here, saying that they wanted to buy the books before the government shut us down,” he says. “The situation since September 11 has definitely changed public discourse, changed how comfortable people feel about expressing opinions...
...Persian Gulf War 12 years ago recall hours spent in sealed rooms wearing gas masks waiting for the inevitable. In fact, 39 missiles did land in Tel Aviv and the surrounding suburban areas. Luckily, only one person was killed—no thanks to the American military support. The Patriot missiles supplied in 1991 had a 100 percent failure rate...