Why Did The Iraq War Start

The Iraq War—which is also known as the invasion of Iraq—began in 2003. It was waged by the US and its allies with the aim of overthrowing Saddam Hussein’s government. Then U.S. President George W. Bush presented his country’s intentions to the world on 17 March 2003; two days later, on the evening of 19 March 2003, he announced that the US is fully prepared to invade Iraq. The invasion began on 20 March and ended on 1 May 2003. The US-led coalition quickly defeated Iraqi forces and took control of all of Iraq.

The Iran-Iraq War, taking place from 1980-1988, started when Iraq, led by Saddam Hussein, tried to invade Iran, sparking an armed war between the two countries. This war had many effects on the oil industry, led to many weapon innovations in Iraq, showed the world who Saddam Hussein was, and how the treaty with the United Nations affected the world.

5 Operation Desert storm was a war between the U.S and Iraq. To those of us who are too young to remember this conflict is one that my grandfather tells me constantly that the price of freedom is never free. Armed forces of the united states and 100 other countries joined in a massive coalition of power to defeat a country called iraq led by a tyrant and dictator Saddam hussein into invading and occupying Kuwait. Naval and air forces and army and marine ground forces of America joined with countries such as Saudi Arabia , france ,Germany ,England ,Italy and other Arab countries joined into one effort to invade Kuwait and liberate that country from tyrannical rule. Where is and always will be the last option because of the deaths of thousands of people both friendly and enemy of soldier and civilian. By this conflict that started in January 1991 and is famously called the hundred hour

The United States has been at war since its creation in 1776. It has battled confrontation 222 out of 239 years or, 93% of its existence. Notably, one of the most crucial wars is 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 has the questionable refinement of being the best known Middle Eastern ruler. He governed Iraq from 1979 until his capture in 2003. President Bush presumed he was harboring many chemical weapons such as synthetic warheads, shells, or aviation bombs. While politics justified this war the real war between Iraq and the U.S. began long before what recognized.

The war in Iraq started because the American and British governments thought that Iraq had dangerous weapons of mass destruction. They were afraid Iraq would use the nuclear weapons on other countries. After America invaded Iraq, it was discovered that Iraq did not have any weapons of mass destruction. The invasion of Iraq began in March 2003. It was fought by the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom because they all wanted to end the ruling of Saddam Hussein.

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.

The 2003 Iraq War lasted less than three weeks. It began in the early morning hours of March 20, when American missiles struck Baghdad. By April 9, U.S. forces had advanced into Baghdad. By April 15 Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had vanished, and U.S. and allied officials pronounced the end of major combat operations. Although the war itself was short, arguments over whether it was justified had been made for months and years prior to the attack, and still continue today. Going to war in Iraq was not justified on many levels.

The post 9/11 conflict in Iraq and the undeclared war in Vietnam both had a profound impact on the United States. These two military conflicts have been a source of contention among the American public for decades. These wars became tedious as a result of their longevity, both the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq lasted for almost a decade, and according to the US Department of Defense and Time magazine, those wars cost upwards of 100 billion dollars each. Another similarity between the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq is the high number of causalities. The Vietnam War has an estimated 1,353,000 casualty count that includes allied military deaths, NVA/VC military deaths, and civilians that died from both North and South Vietnam, from years 1965

President George W. Bush authorized the invasion of Iraq in 2003 citing that Saddam Hussein had been stockpiling weapons of mass destruction. In March of 2003 US led coalition forces entered the country and overthrew the Hussein regime. The conflict was very short causing some of the infantry units to not be used in combat. After the conflict ended many of these units were withdrawn from the country from lack of use. In the short term after the regime was toppled, there was still resistance from irregular units loyal to Saddam. A consequence of the early withdrawal of troops was the prolonged the need for American forces to remain in the country to end the resistance. The last of these combat troops were withdrawn in 2011 after eight

The united states has made some questionable policies and decisions making the last three decades. Many people do not understand why policies are passed, therefor they raise no opinion or speculation. A society’s responsibility and duty to their nation is to be involved in government affairs. Decisions like keeping the petrodollar alive and invading anyone who threatens it. The petrodollar has influenced the United States government into making rash and questionable decisions like going to war, toppling governments, and a rigged presidential election.

The 2003 invasion of Iraq has become the longest and most used armed forces war started by the US, since the Vietnam war. The Iraq War began when the president of the time, George Bush, sent an invasion and a following possession of land in Iraq. It was US’s first major experience taking over power in the Middle East. It is believed that the cause of the invasion was because Iraqi Saddam Hussein (Iraq’s president of the time) made the US security feel threatened by Iraqi’s his suspected ties to terrorism and his possession of weapons of mass destruction.

This project argues that there were many more complex reasons for Tony Blair’s 2003 invasion of Iraq, other than the war on terror, the need to find weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and to free the Iraqi people from the tyranny of Saddam Hussain as the government implied. Factors such as the vast amounts of crude oil that the coastal areas of the Persian Gulf contains (which includes a large part of Iraq’s coast) and the need to control future oil supplies was the overall determining factor on going to Iraq. There was also a need to stay allied with the US (which has been deeply ingrained in UK foreign policy since the Suez Crisis of 1956) and help secure US and in turn UK military presence in the middle east.

The Iraq War was caused by the civil war that Iraq had in the past,and also several problems that Iran had against Iraq, the civil war was caused by the angry of the population against the governor Saddam Hussein, who applied violent tactics against them, after these events many countries wanted to stop this so they started the Iraq war, one of the countries that tried to stop this was the United States and the reasons they gave the world was that they Saddam Hussein was helping Al-Qaeda, Iraq has MDW (Massive Destruction Weapons) and that Iraq was being too violent with the population. This war took 8 years, starting in 2003 and ending in 2011 with Obama Taking all the troops back to U.S.

This essay is going to cover the country of Iraq. I have found its history very interesting and facts about the country, culture and military. This country has an astounded religious and cultural history. I believe Iraq was once self sufficient because of its Dictator however a great threat to the world. Sometimes I am very puzzled how we invaded the country and changed their government from a Baathes dictatorship to a multicultural, multiethnic democratically elected government. Based on my personnel opinion I believe that Iraq will never be a self-sufficient Country if its government remains democratically ran until people there could put aside their religious beliefs, political beliefs and ethnic differences for their countries stability. If Iraq could eventually resolve its inner issues with civilians, government and military our government could potentially have a stronghold for any potential future operations we may have in the Middle East.

The long Iraq-Iran war has led to the worsening of the living conditions of the people in border areas and in the middle and south of Iraq. It has led to forced migration from the southern provinces, especially Basra and Maysan, to cities distant from war hit areas creating demographic problems in these areas and impoverishing the immigrating families.