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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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As the United States considers whether to take military action against Iraq, the EU is forced to maintain a delicate balance between its multilateral approach to foreign conflicts and its strong economic and political ties to the United States.
With the backdrop of a possible war with Iraq and a simmering Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we have chosen to focus our conference this year on turbulence and transition in U.
Conflicts in other areas of the world such as Afghanistan, Iraq, and Indonesia, continue to produce refugees.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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This perception is underscored by the general public's rejection of US policy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to the rationale for possible war with Iraq.
This was the case, for example, during the Iran-Iraq war -- one of the bloodiest conflicts in the last four decades.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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Raffarin added that international law should be applied to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as well as to Iraq.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.
The conflict between the two countries stemmed from a dispute over the Shatt al Arab, the waterway that serves as a boundary between Iran and Iraq and empties into the Persian Gulf.
Both Iraq and Iran have become increasingly involved in providing financial and military support to Palestinian groups since Arafat first declared the peace process at a dead end and returned to armed conflict.
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