War+in+Iraq


 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/72/IraqWarHeader.jpg width="300" height="364" align="left"]]In the past few years the United States has been in Iraq, engaged in a imperialistic war. The Iraq war, also commonly know as the [|Second Gulf War], began March 20, 2003 when the US deployed soldiers in Iraq. The Iraq war was started by two reasons. One being that The United States government was worried that Iraq was producing nuclear weapons and two being that Middle Eastern territory was the next big place for terrorism to start. Sadly, another interest of the United States about going to war was also because of the large amounts of petroleum in Iraq. Some of the reasons of going to war with Iraq was a good idea. The UN "imposed economic sanctions caused extreme hardship and poverty in Iraq. An oil for food program established in 1995 by [|UN Security Council Resolution 986]allowed Iraq to export limited quantities of oil to pay for food and medicines. However, Iraq diverted part of the income from this program to weapons development by charging a clandestine surcharge." ( The Iraq Crisis). One of the main problems that the United States and other countries had with Iraq

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was that they could possibly have weaspons of mass distruction. President Bush gave Iraq 48 hours to disarm completely and if they didn't comply, we would go into their country and try to take out the weapons and Saddam Hussein. Many countries opposed the war against Iraq. Every single European country opposed the war except for Isreal. Every country saw that there was no basis for the war. The inspection team had never found weapons that were chemically manufactured or any buildings that had chemically made weapons. "Intelligence suggesting that Iraq had been purchasing aluminum tubes and other materials for a nuclear weapons program and was intent on creating an atomic bomb turned out to have been based on forgeries and inventions of defectors, and may have been "improved" by US government officials anxious to find a rational for invading Iraq." (The Iraq Crisis). With the [|United States jumping to conclusions], other countries thought that the war could end badly, mainly because it would reflect terribly on the United States. Many people and groups tried to protest the war.**




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 * Some catch slogans against the war that groups used were,** **"No War for Oil", "No [More] Blood for Oil", "Conserve Oil, Don't Steal It". (Chants, Slogans, Poster Text).** **The primary goal of the mission was to invade and win control over the Iraqi government. This was executed very quickly, although the soldiers had completed the mission, the government kept them in Iraq. The question is why are our soldiers still there?**