On the early morning of the 20th of March, bombs and missiles were launched by the U.S. as well as U.K., Australia and Poland. There were many targets but Saddam Hussein, Iraqi President, was a main priority as well as other significant leaders in the country. This invasion was decided by a meeting with Pentagon officials and the CIA Director in the Oval Office. These people were afraid of the window of opportunity closing and never coming about again.
Within a month of the invasion, the statue of the Iraqi leader had been toppled which was "stage-managed" by the Army declaring the U.S. had taken over the capital of Baghdad. A month after that, Pres. Bush claimed that "major combat operations in Iraq have ended".
The main prospect of this mission was to "disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people" according to Pres. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. World peace was wanted to be kept in hopes of Iraq getting rid of alleged nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
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