Zarqawi's Corruption In Iraq

The Iraq war was occurred in 2003 between Iraq and the Unites States. The United States invaded Iraq and overthrew Saddam Hussein despite not being backed by the United Nations because they claimed that Iraq had a WMD program and were linked to Al-Qaeda. However, no WMD program nor any direct links to Al-Qaeda were found. After the United States had occupied Iraq for a few months, Islamic extremist groups were founded. The United States goal of overthrowing Hussein was accomplished, but this was the incorrect time to overthrow him, as Islamic terrorist groups came in his place. The short-term effects of the Iraq war were the formation of AQI and the increased tensions between Shi’a and Sunni Muslims. The main long-term effect the Iraq War was an increase in worldwide distrust towards the United States. In conclusion, the Iraq War destabilized the Middle East by going against the UN security council and attacking Iraq, then finding neither a WMD program, nor links to Al-Qaeda, which were the reasons they invaded

Soon after the invasion, Hussein went into hiding. American and coalition forces were able to take control of Iraq's major cities in three weeks, without many casualties. On May 1, 2003 President Bush declared an end to major combat in Iraq, although guerrilla war continued in Iraq in the years that followed and thousands of coalition soldiers and civilians were killed.

Not only has Obama ended the war in Iraq, he also ordered the last set of troops to leave on December 18, 2011.Obama eliminated the terrorist leader and Al Queda member, Osama Bin Laden in 2011("Obamas Top 50 Accomplishments"). The United States image has been improved and favorable

The lack of clear and well thought strategy in addition to the lack of knowledge and understanding of the Iraqi people lead to the failure in Iraq, which materialized in the form of ISIS.

When the United States seized control over Iraq, many Iraqi citizens were left without a job. As a result of this widespread unemployment, recruitment for Muslim extremist groups thrived. Lt. General Michael Flynn, a key figure of the War, has admitted “As brutal as Saddam Hussein was, it was a mistake to just eliminate him.” Flynn went on to say. “The same is true for Moammar Gadhafi and for Libya, which is now a failed state. The historic lesson is that it was a strategic failure to go into Iraq. History will not be and should not be kind with that

When one thinks of Iraq war, the two key players are perceived to be George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein. As leaders of the opposing sides, they are also perceived as the decision makers. In the individual and sub group levels of analysis, toppling of the Hussein’s regime in Iraq was a success. This success

Saddam Hussein's Baathist Party military was dismantled and left many soldiers homeless and anger, leading them to join jihadist groups. “Iraq is not a

…The U.S. began the Iraq war with the goal of ridding the region of a tyrannical government that didn’t protect its people. However, a decade later, at the conclusion of the U.S. military mission in Iraq, the people are perhaps worse off than they were before the

Iraqi laws have seen constant changes. Many old laws have been replaced by a new legislation, and other laws have been amended; first by the US Civil Administrator Paul Bremer, and later by the government of Iraq. And this happened after the fall of Saddam Hussain`s regime and the occupation of Iraq by the American and the British forces on 9th April 2003.

and Iraq, as well as the year leading up to the war and the four years following the war. The U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003. In May of 2011 the United States killed Osama Bin Laden. In December of 2011, the last U.S. troops pulled out of Iraq. This left room for the insurgency group (viewed as a terrorist group by many) Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to gain territory and influence. The effects of the previous conflict, specifically from the most recent Iraq War spanning the last eight years, perpetuated this cycle of conflict, allowing room for ISIS to

forces at a hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan. In June 2011, President Barack Obama announced the beginning of large-scale troop withdrawals from Afghanistan, with a final withdrawal of U.S. forces tentatively scheduled for 2014. Many people throughout the world (though not all) are in agreement that the world is a better place without Saddam Hussein. In losing Hussein, the Iraqis gained freedom of expression. Due to us fighting the war they are slowly turning into a democracy. Iraq could eventually serve as an example of democratic transition for other nations in the Middle East. However, it’s too soon to measure the benefits of the Iraq war. It remains to be seen how history will judge America’s involvement in Iraq. The war against Iraq was a war that needed to be fought. If we fought more ruthlessly it would of been over sooner. In October 2002, a National Intelligence Estimate stated that Iraq possessed “weapons of mass destruction,” or WMD. On March 19, 2003, with the support of Congress and the majority of Americans, the U.S. military began bombing Baghdad in a campaign titled “Shock and Awe.” The result was 189,000: Direct war deaths, which doesn't include the hundreds of thousands more that died due to war-related hardships. 4,488: U.S. service personnel killed directly.32,223: Troops injured (not including

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).

This along with the issues that had hindered certain aspects, the mission continued on. The ability to infiltrate a country and accomplish a mission behind enemy lines with little to no support as well as operate with an Army that supports their mission was a leading cause for the success. The enemy was confirmed, the existence of Al-Qaeda operating in Iraq was presented, as well as the chemical weapons being created by Al Qaeda and Ansar Al-Islam were reported. What happened after was up to the policy makers and the consumers on the other end of the intelligence cycle. The connection between Saddam and Al-Qaeda that had lead a great deal of bias was not confirmed, but with knowledge from the Iraq Survey Group report after the invasion as to how Saddam ran his government, the possibility of the two being collusion is one that couldn’t necessarily be true.(CIA 2004,Vol

On March 20, 2003, the United States invaded the country of Iraq to oust the tyrannical leader Saddam Hussein and rid Iraq and the world of weapons of mass destruction. The invasion force, coupled with a sprinkling of coalition forces, made their way through the desert of Iraq in record time, just twenty-one days. The capstone event of the war was President Bush landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln declaring an end to hostilities on April 9, 2003 - the war was over but the battle had just begun. The defeat of the Iraqi Army and the infamous Republican Guard allowed the U.S. the opportunity to create an Iraq in her own image, a democratic and free middle-east country. The population of Iraq has been at the mercy of brutal empires and regimes

The only reason why al Qaeda was failing at the time was that they were being defeated by other countries. However, many factors contributed to those defeats, the reason was the strategy, tactics used by al Qaeda and jihadist in general, with the view of the world on which that strategy and tactics were resulted in (McCabe, Thomas R. 2010). To the extremists’ the complete worldview had been on a misguided or unusual assumption that did not have little or no basis of fact. McCabe mentioned the five critical mistakes al Qaeda made, which some were by al Qaeda and the jihadist that in particular was just al Qaeda alone. The mistakes were misreading the situation in the Middle East and the United States. They had misread our weaknesses here in