The monarchy in Iraq was established in 1921. Operation desert shield was when US troops were sent to Saudi Arabia to prevent Iraq from invading them.Called operation Iraqi Freedom by the US military. The Operation was to disarm Iraq of WMD, to free Iraqi people. Our allies did not want us to go into Iraq because of increased chance of terrorist attacks. Iraq had ended it's WMD program in 1991. Eventually the Us captured Hussein, and was executed by the new Iraqi government. We also wanted to spread democracy in Iraq. After the invasion in Iraq, civil war broke out, and Al-Qaeda emerged. We were only in Iraq for 10 years because of the violence.
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