The Chaldeans
On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city that there was no food for the people of the land. Then the city was broken into, and all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls beside the king�s garden, though the Chaldeans were all around the city. And they went by way of the Arabah. But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho and all his army was scattered from him. Then they captured the king and brought him to the king of Babylon at Riblah, and he passed sentence on him. During this siege, Zedekiah and the remnants of his army broke out of Jerusalem and fled east toward Jericho, only to be captured and brought to Riblah where Nebuchadnezzar still maintained his headquarters. When he was come Nebuchadnezzar began to call him a wicked wretch and a covenant-breaker and one that had forgotten his former words, when he promised to keep the country for him. (Josephus. Antiquities 10:8:2).
Answer:
President Bush said the goal of Operation Iraqi Freedom was to "disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger.".
Explanation:
In the United States voting and serving in the military are voluntary responsibilities. They are not mandatory because law does not require citizens to complete them. They are arguably personal decisions and political decisions as well, but primarily voluntary ones.
