Peace and War

The Iraq War 2003 has been considered one of the most controversial American wars since the World War II. The Bush Administration told the American people that they had to remove Saddam Hussein because he would have Weapons of Mass Destruction and was developing a program of enriching uranium, supposedly to create a nuclear bomb. As soon as it wasn’t found any WMD in Iraq, that administration begun to change their rhetoric from principle of preventive war to speech of democracy in Middle East. As Condoleeza Rice said once at the American University in Cairo: “Now we are taking a different course. We are supporting the democratic aspirations of all people” (Time, Feb.12,2007). However, there are some and powerful voices in United States that disagree with Bush and Rice’s foreign policy, such as Senator Chuck Hagel has affirmed: “American cannot impose a democracy on any nation – regardless of our noble purpose. You cannot have a foreign policy based on divine mission. We tried that in the Middle Ages, that’s what the Crusades were about.” (The National Interest, Jan/Feb. 2007, p. 5). Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore, in the academic journal "Foreign Affairs" (January/February 2007) states: "A free and fair election, moreover, is not the best first step toward democracy in a country that has no history or tradition of self-government." So, it is the relationship between democracy and foreign policy in US that consists the subject of our project research.