Iraq War presentations

On Wed we listened to Dr. Ellin give qutie an interesting talk about Israel and the wall surrounding the West Bank. I was surprised at his views on the wall. He talked about the wall being built to help keep the suicide bombers in check and the bombings have decreased quite significantly. All the other aricles and videos we've seen gave a completely different view of the wall. This really makes you think about the facts we are given by our own news media. He also gave us handouts disputingJimmy Carters book "Palestine: Peace not Apartheid" which we had read for class. The paper disputed several points in Carters book. In one section Carter claims the 1949 armistice demarcation lines becamo the borders for the new nation of Israel and were accepted by both the United States and Israel and recognized by the United Nations. The paper claims the lines were not borders according to the Armistice Agreement dated April 3, 1949.

We also had the pleasure of listening to Lt. Phillips, Sgt. Gilmer and Sgt. Merrit speak about the Iraq War. While I was listening to them speak I kept thinking about the difference between the Gulf War and the Iraq War. The differences between the two are so far apart. Before the Gulf War started everyone seemed to be for the war and pushing Hussein back out of Kuwait, but there is so much controversy for the Iraq War. The soldiers gave a view of things in Iraq that I have not heard from any news report here in America. They stated things have improved a little bit in Iraq which is quite surprising compared to what we hear on the news. These were my favorite speakers so far and I really wish we would have had more time to talk with them on Wed.

These are a couple web sites that I found interesting about the Gulf War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/