The War Of Deception, Operation Iraqi Freedom
(2022) STVK02 20221Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This Bachelor thesis will go into depth of how the rhetorical arguments used by the Bush
administration led to the justification of war against Saddam Hussien’s regime in Iraq 2003. This will
be accomplished through the application of normative theory and its dif erent types of instruments,
used on Bush himself and one of his colleagues in the Bush Administration, Paul Wolfowitz, who had
the key influence over the decision making process. The goal of the paper is to try and explain the
motives behind the invasion, and how the administration managed to justify their actions for a war,
amplified through a normative analysis. In the end, the overarching goal will be to find a bigger
picture of how these issues could be justified - and... (More) - This Bachelor thesis will go into depth of how the rhetorical arguments used by the Bush
administration led to the justification of war against Saddam Hussien’s regime in Iraq 2003. This will
be accomplished through the application of normative theory and its dif erent types of instruments,
used on Bush himself and one of his colleagues in the Bush Administration, Paul Wolfowitz, who had
the key influence over the decision making process. The goal of the paper is to try and explain the
motives behind the invasion, and how the administration managed to justify their actions for a war,
amplified through a normative analysis. In the end, the overarching goal will be to find a bigger
picture of how these issues could be justified - and if they, in fact, were justified through the dif erent
normative instruments. Thus, the main focus of this work. (Less)
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- author
- Olsson, Gustav LU
- supervisor
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- Martin Hall LU
- organization
- course
- STVK02 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Iraq war, Bush administration, Paul Wolfowitz, George Bush, Saddam Hussein, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Justification, WMDs
- language
- English
- id
- 9097316
- alternative location
- https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=9097316&fileOId=9097318&cover=0
- date added to LUP
- 2022-10-12 15:11:44
- date last changed
- 2022-10-12 15:11:44
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