- we are talking about or asssigned blog number 5 almost done talking about it now.
3. The War in Iraq: First research the Persian Gulf War of 1990/91 and do research on Saddam Hussein's background. Discuss why the US went to war in Iraq in 2003. Also include the major events throughout the war and how President Bush and Obama differed in how they handled the war. Also describe how the US helped Iraq while we were there.(9 people)
-march 19 2003 we went into the iraq war and in april 9 2003 us troops took over the capital and osome played hide and seek with them, and december 30th 2006 was when osome was executed,
-sectarian violence- means violence between 2 religions
-sudame kept order but when we got him violence started to break out kinda because there was no one to keep order.
-surge was successful in iraq because of sending more troops to iraq to get order and stop some of the violence.
-went to war cause of sodame usane, dictatorship he did and we didnt like it and we thought he had weapons of distruction and sudame made it seem like he did so he would seem tough.
-us helped iraq by suppling aid and help fighting against iran and we helped build their military up same thing in afghanistan. we helped establish democracy also same as afghanistan and ecomomic system.
-bush wanted to go get rid of al queada and obama thought that we have been in war long enough so he changed things so we could get things done and get those troops out.
-4,400 us deaths in iraq
100,000 deaths for iraqy
cost us just under 800 billion for the us
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