Today we went over the maps and continued our blog disscussion/Iraq powerpoint.
The Iraq/US war was from 2003-2011. It was called Operation Iraqi Freedom by the US military. Main Reasons: 1. to dissarm Iraq from weapons of mass distruction (WMD). The US and UK claimed he had WMD. There was no evidence that he actually had WMD but we believed he was trying to get them from Africa. He acted like he had them to be more powerful and to contorl more respect from other countries. Saddam Hussein basically caused his own country to be invaded by acting like he had the WMD. 2. to end Suddam Hussein's support for terrorism.-Saddam Hussein didn't actually cause 9-11. 3. To free the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein's control.
After the Iraqi invasion, it was concluded that Iraq had ended its WMD program in 1991 and had no active programs at the time of the invasion. The invasion of Iraq led to an occtpation and the eventual capture of President Hussein. Saddam Hussein was later tried in an Iraq court of law and executed by the new Iraqi government.
Other Causes: some accused Saddam Hussein of harboring and supporting al-Qaeda but no evidene of a maningful connection was ever. Iraqi government human rights abuses. Wanted to spread democracy to the county-people believe younger people wouldn't want to be apart of the terroist groups because they want to live their own life. Oil interests. President Bush wanted to "fix what is dady messed up".
Issues in Iraq after Invasion: 1. violence against coalition forces. 2. Civil war and sectarian violence. 3. The emergence of al-Qaeda in Iraq. 4. Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse-2004-Prision where we put Iraqi prisoners where we tortured them and pictures got out to the press.
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