War in Iraq
Major Events
- March 19 2003 is when it started
- April 9th 2003, Us troops take over the capital
- January 7 2007, Bush sends more troops over to Iraq (known as the Surge)
- December 30 2006, Saddam Hussein was executed
- We pulled out of Iraq
while we were invading Iraq there was also a civil war breaking out between two religions (Sunni and Shia Muslims) a war of religion is called Sectarian Violence. The Iraq war became very, very unpopular. The Surge was very unpopular with the American people although it did work
Why we went to war
- Saddam Hussein was the main reason we went into the Iraq
- We believed he had weapons of mass destruction, although we never found any
- pursian gulf
How did we help Iraq
- We helped build their military
- We helped establish a democracy
- Helped rebuild economic system
- Help build infrastructure
Bush and Obama differences
- Bush sent lots of troops to Iraq
- Bush did lots of ground attacks
- Bush also wanted to Al Qaeda out of Iraq
- Obama did more aerial strikes to save more American lives
- Obama ended the war soon
There as been 50% more terrorist attacks since we were there at the end of 2011
- 4,004 US dealth
- 100,000 iraqi deaths
- cost 1 billion dollars
- 100000 Iraqi deaths
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