Went over more of the Canadian map. Got assigned blog topics: end poverty and hunger (http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/poverty.shtml).
•Focus on the following items: -define/explain the goal and all it’s targets -explain why it is a goal—explain the problems the world is having with your issue -explain how the world has or has not made progress with your goal
Finished assigned blog discussions
Obama
Highlights
- passed health care reform after five presidents failed to do
- capitalized businesses
Lowlights
- persecuting Arizona for reforming immigration laws
- economic stimulus package
Causes of war in Iraq
- August 2, 1990 Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait
- U.S. sends troops to Saudi Arabia - al-Qaeda changed point of view on U.S.
- Help Saudi Arabia - Saddam Hussein back out on own - didn't back out
- Operation Desert Storm
- Goal to free Kuwait from Iraqi control - succeeded
- Troops remained
- Saddam Hussein allowed to remain in power
- Iraq war began in 2003
- Fight the war on terror
- Protect oil supply
- Help out Iraqi government - create democracy
- Suspicion of weapons of mass destruction - from Africa
- Had chemical weapons before - making countries think he had WMDs - really didn't
- U.S. never found weapons
Low points of Iraq war
- "Surge"
- Bush: "We're not going to leave Iraq until the job is done"
- Sent more troops to Iraq
- All troops were home by December 18, 2011
- Abu Ghraib prison scandal
- U.S. prisons made it look like we tortured/humiliated people
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