Bernard Tsetse

Based on the past relationship between the two governments, was the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 a fight against terror, a search for weapons of mass destructions or due to a hidden agenda?

The US invasion of Iraq in 2003 has been a very controversial event in the past few years both in the US and in the rest of the world. The invasion commenced the US and other nations initiating an attack on Iraq on March 1, 2003. Skeptics believe that the invasion of Iraq was due to a hidden agenda. The objective of this extended essay is to find out the main reason for US invading Iraq. My research uncovered four main reasons: Terrorism, Weapons of mass destructions and oil interest and to liberate Iraqis from Saddam’s dictatorship. The objective of this extended essay is to find out which reason was the primary reason for the US invading Iraq. 

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Fighting terrorism is one the most logical reason that the public believed for US invading Iraq. This is because the Invasion took place after the terrorist attack in U.S. land. The U.S. suspected Iraq because it had previously attempted on plan a terrorist attack on U.S. targets in the Gulf. After the attack, the Bush administration proposed to the public its reasons of planning to attack Iraq. One of the reasons stated by the Bush administration, was that Saddam Hussein was one of the ringleaders of the 9/11 attacks due to his accusations of sponsoring international terrorism and cooperating with al Qaeda to conduct the 9/11 attacks. Also stated by the Bush administration was Iraq harboring of al Qaeda member and other terrorist groups. This accusation was made based on Saddam’s regime of supporting terrorist groups. Iraq also provided economic support for Palestinian terror groups inclusive of the Palestine Liberation Front, the Arab Liberation Front, Hamas and Islamic Jihad for suicide bombings. (7) In support of US fight against terrorism, the US congress authorized the use of military force to enforce the UN resolution “defend the national security of the United States against the continuing threat posed by Iraq.”(2)This quote clearly state that US found Iraq as a threat and by invading the country it defended its national security.

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Iraq’s containment of Weapons of Mass destruction was one of the reasons proposed by the Bush administration for invading Iraq. Concern of  the US government over Iraqi weapons of Mass destruction goes back to 1991, when President George H.W. Bush raised attention to Iraq’s intensions of producing nuclear weapons, which is also known as weapons of mass destruction(WMD). This issue was revisited and documented by the U.S. government as one of its primary reasons for invading Iraq after Sept 11 2001. In 2001, the Bush administration considered Iraq connections with WMD’s and proposed documents stating that it was one ...

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