Monday, April 2

We went over our map.

IRAQ:

Consequences on Iraq:

  • Economic sanctions remained
  • weapons inspectors
  • No fly zones

Iraq War 2003-2011

  • Called Operation Iraqi Freedom by the US military
  • Conflict that occured in Iraq from March 20, 2003 to December 18, 2011.

Main Cause:

  • The US ant the United KIndom claimed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
  • This was a threat to our security
  • In 2002, The UN Security Council called for Iraq to completely cooperate with UN weapin inspectors to verify that Iraq was not in hold of WMD
  • The UN found no evidence of WMD but believed that Saddam was trying to get WMD from Africa
  • Due to the above intelligence, we invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003

 

 

 

 

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