Why Did The Iraq War Occur

Thesis: Iraq is a multicultural country that is located in the Middle East. Iraq borders Kuwait to the south, Saudi Arabia the south, Jordan the west, Syrian Arab Republic to the northwest, Turkey to the north, and the Islamic Republic of Iran to the East. For the past hundred years, Iraq has been in conflict with numerous countries. During the past few decades, The United States of America started its war with Iraq due to terrorist act against the United States and Kuwait. The Gulf War started in August 1990 through February 1991. This was an operation to buildup troops and defense of Saudi Arabia. The United States led coalition forces from 34 countries during the Gulf War against Iraq due to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait. In 2003 the United States invaded Iraq due to terrorist acts against United States. The war went on for over 10 years that eventually brought down the terrorist threat against the United States and its allies. However, this came to numerous casualties and deaths to not only Soldiers, but civilians as well.

The Gulf War of 1990 was an economic, territorial and political enigma that saw the invasion of Kuwait by neighbouring country Iraq. The commencement of the Persian war sparked much controversy in its occurrence, and many question the extent to which the previous war of 1988, the Iraq/Iran war was a direct link to the feud only a couple of years later. Although the Iraq/Iran war had a strong link to the occurrence of the Persian Gulf War, the interconnectedness of numerous differing factors outweigh any reasoning for the contrary. The Kuwait oil reserves, represented opportunity, wealth and future prosperity for Iraq, thus acting as a motive and fuelling president, Saddam Hussein incentive to invade Kuwait and rescue the economic state of

The United States has been at war since its creation in 1776. Notably, one of the most crucial wars was the War on Terror. Beginning in March of 2003, this war initially served the purpose of getting rid of the country 's leader Saddam Hussein to prevent his use of suspected stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. Hussein was best-known as a Middle Eastern ruler with a violent regime. He governed Iraq from 1979 until his capture in 2003when President Bush presumed he was harboring chemical weapons such as synthetic warheads, shells, or aviation bombs. While politics justified invading Iraq, the conflict between the U.S. and Iraq began long before the war. In the post-election leading up to the war, political officials such as George Bush attested repeatedly that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and posed a danger to the U.S. and other targets. Bush sold the war to Americans by attesting these cases of threat to Americans openly with supreme certainty. The United States of America should not have invaded Iraq as it allowed the establishment of government power and democracy without evidence under prior resolutions, increased violence, and forced American citizens to inquire significant debt including the injuries and hardships sustained by U.S. soldiers.

The United States and Iraq have been on edge with each other for many years. Under the power of Saddam Hussein, Iraq was considered one of the strongest countries. Saddam was one of the most gruesome, malicious, and aggressive leaders at the time. He would kill innocent people, invade other countries, and attempt to build nuclear weapons. Saddam was looked at as a serious threat to the United States, so actions had to be taken. On March 19, 2003, George Bush declares war on Iraq. The invasion of Iraq lasted from March 20 to May 1. Many people do not agree with what the United States chose to do. So the real question people ask, should the United States have gone to war in Iraq?

The Iraq War, also known as the Second Persian Gulf War or Gulf War 2, started in March 2003 with the combined invasion of Iraq by the United States and Great Britain. President George Bush urged the invasion of Iraq for two reasons. First, the vulnerability of the United States following the terrorist attacks on September 11th, 2001. Secondly, the belief in Iraq producing weapons of mass destruction and their support for terrorist groups in the region. In the early stages of the invasion, Iraqi troops did not stand a chance against the invading countries. Iraqi military forces were forced to flee or surrender which allowed for a relatively easy takeover of the country. With his county being completely dominated by allied forces, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein went into hiding. He was later found in December 2003, and was turned over to country officials. After being convicted of crimes against humanity, he was executed in 2006. With over 39,000 soldiers remaining in Iraq by the start of Barack Obama’s presidency, the new commander of chief of the United States announced they would be leaving the country upon by the end of 2011 (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2015).

To begin with, the Iraq war lasted a very long time. The Iraq war began in 2003. In the text I read it stated the war was as long as a decade and ended 2011. 151,000 to 600,000 iraqs were killed in the first 3 to 4 years of the war. The Iraq war lasted a total 13 years.

Within three weeks the US led 49 countries into Iraq and overthrew the government. The Iraqi War has caused large controversy in this country and around the world. The real question is wether or not the cost of lives and dollars was worth it. Although Iraq may have posed a security risk to the US, the war did not provide substantial benefit and caused more financial issues and human expenditure. Outside countries say the War violated international law, killed countless, wasted millions of dollars, and made the US more vulnerable to terrorism.

The Iraq War, also known as the Second Gulf War, was a long armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of Iraq by a U.S. that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government. An estimated 151,000 to 600,000 or more people were killed. The invasion began on March 20, 2003 with the U.S., joined the United Kingdom and several allies. Iraqi forces were quickly overwhelmed as U.S. forces swept through the country.Many violent insurgent groups were supported by Iran and al-Qaeda in Iraq. The United States responded with a troop surge in 2007. The winding down of U.S. involvement in Iraq accelerated

In excess of 600 billion dollars has been spent on the war in Iraq since it began in 2003, plus over four thousand U.S. troops have died because of this war, and despite a struggling economy the US government is keeping our troops in Iraq with no end in sight. The war in Iraq is a current military operation that began, without a declaration of war, on March 20, 2003 and is still taking place today in 2009(Thompson). Americans have been shielded from this war and have forgotten why we went to war in the first place. Thus clarification is needed by the American public on why the invasion on Iraq was baseless, how the mismanagement is affecting our soldiers and what the overall end result could be.

The war on terrorism led the United States to intervene and play a vital part in world history. The United States administration decided to send our troops to help destroy weapons of mass destruction under Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq. This project discusses the impact, perception and results of United States involvement in the Iraq war. Initially, there was a lot of controversy and questions on why we were involved, why we attacked Iraq and what

Since February 2003, the American invasion and occupation of Iraq has cost America more than one thousand lives, five thousand seriously wounded, and roughly $200 billion, and has adversely affected American interests throughout the world. The 2003 Invasion of Iraq was a polemic historical event in our society and around the world. Critics against the war differed with the resolution of George W. Bush, President of the United States, to go to conflict with Iraq. While activists, pro-war supported his declaration for the invasion. Opponents of the invasion claimed that the war was a “terrible mistake and violation of the UN agreement” (Hinnebusch, 2007). They also claimed that the United States occupied Iraq for its own interest (Shah, 2006). On the other hand, pro-war supporters claimed that the war was needed since Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD) that Saddam Hussein was planning to use against America. War supporters also debated that the invasion was for the best interest of the Iraqi civilians since the United States

In 2002. The new president George W Bush, argued that the vulnerability of the U.S following the 9/11 attack, combined with the fear of Iraq’s possession of “weapons of mass destruction” and its support for terrorist groups, made disarming Iraq a renewed priority. At first he refused to allow U.N inspectors to search Iraq. Later U.N inspectors found no WMD’S, but some questioned their inspection. American leaders feared that Hussein would use any delay to hide his weapons, so in March 2003, Bush gave Hussein 48 hours to leave Iraq or face invasion. Hussein refused thus starting the war on March 20, 2003. The U.S began its campaign with a series of air strikes. In early April, U.S forces entered Baghdad, Hussein’s dictatorship quickly fell. Later on Hussein was captured, tried for his crimes, and was executed by Iraqis on December 30, 2006. Although Hussein was defeated, the war was far from over. Following the collapse of Ba’athist Regime, caused severe outbreaks to occur in Iraq’s major cities. Additionally, on January 2007, Bush announced a plan to temporarily increase the number of U.S troops by more than 20,000, an effort known as the surge. Reason being was that we discovered that about 1.000 people were being killed in Iraq every day. The outcome of this surge was a positive one, because the levels of violence decreased by a lot during 2007. In 2008 the Iraqi

The Iraq and Iran war in 1980 through 1988 started on September 22, 1980, which resulted in an 8 year war, 500,000 casualties, $600 billion debt accumulated, and many more factors. The Iraq and Iran war strained Iraq’s political, and social life. Also put Iraq’s economy into severe conditions. The 1980, 8 year war between Iraq and Iran was fueled by many factors including border disputes (geographical and economical), and Iraq’s new dictator Saddam Hussein (political). Saddam Hussein feared that the new Iranian leadership would threaten Iraq’s Sunni Shia, and the minimal access to the Persian Gulf. The war was multifaceted and had many religious schisms, political differences, border disputes, ethnic disputes and a very personal fight between Saddam Hussein and Ayatollah Khomeini. Iraq launched the war in effort to strengthen the rising power in Iraq, and to replace Iran as the dominant Persian Gulf State. The most important factor to this war was the fight over the Shatt al-Arab waterway. The fight over the waterway goes all the way back into the 7th century. Having said that, Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein had large aspirations which included expanding his country, and become the leading nation in the Middle East. Becoming the leading nation in the Middle East required accomplishing the attack on Iran, gaining more oil fields, the Shatt Al Arab (a waterway) and getting more power and land. Furthermore, in the months that lead up to the start of the war, Iraq was getting

As a matter of fact, It has been thirteen years since the beginning of the war in Iraq in 2003 and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime led by the U.S. army and its coalition. when the U.S. President George W. Bush announced in a televised address, “At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.”(George W. Bush speech, 2003) under the accusation of position or building for mass weapons of distraction. which those weapons were never to be found in Iraq. However, nowadays after democratization for the new Iraq. Iraq still endures many multi-ethnic and sectarian cleansing, civil wars, and continuous spread of violence across the country.

The war began when Iraq invaded Iran on September 22, 1980, following a long history of border disputes. The conflict saw early successes by the Iraqis, but before long they were repulsed and the conflict stabilized into a long war of attrition. The United Nations Security Council called upon both parties to end the conflict on multiple occasions, but a ceasefire was not agreed to until August 20, 1988, and the last prisoners of war were not exchanged until 2003. The war irrevocably altered politics in the area, playing into wider global politics and leading to the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Iran saw the war as an opportunity to export its Islamic revolution to Iraq, where the majority of the population share their version of Shi'a Islam,