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U. S. Constitution: Northern Iraq
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An increasingly vigorous debate rages over U.S. policy in Iraq in America today, from dinner tables across the country to the two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue. Three distinguished scholars from the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin sat down in September 2007 to discuss the Constitution's organization of power over foreign affairs. These conversations about the Constitution inevitably turned to the urgent matters of the day: the implications for the present and future of US policy in Iraq.
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The equation is further complicated by the thousands of criminals Saddam released from prison in the months before the March invasion by U.S.-led coalition forces. And by the tens of thousands of Kalashnikov rifles and pistols that make every neighborhood an arsenal. Coalition troops confiscated heavy weapons in July but allowed Iraqis to keep some light arms for self-defense. These guns often lead to murder.
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The Turkish government has succeeded Saddam Hussein as the primary oppressor of the Kurdish people, and it undertook its most recent round of U.S. supported attacks this last week with a renewed round of bombing of Kurdish areas in Northern Iraq. U.S. support for the Turkish campaign has been justified under the rubric of fighting terrorism, as Turkish officials claimed the December 23rd bombing targeted only Kurdish secessionist rebels, and resulted in no civilian deaths.
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"Iraq is clearly a hostile environment for U.S. troops," Stork said. "But that does not absolve the military from its legal obligations to use force in a restrained and proportionate manner -- and only when necessary."
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At the height of the Cold War, Thule had 7,000 U.S. soldiers and an array of nuclear-tipped missiles. It still has Greenland's largest road network and the island's northernmost airfield capable of accommodating jets, but the U.S. presence has been reduced to 200 soldiers who maintain early warning radars.
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