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The Iraq war |
The invasion of iraq by a multinational force in 2003 |
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1932 |
Iraq became independent if uk |
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1958 |
Iraq became a republic- git rid of its monarchy |
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1968 |
The main political party was the ba'ath party |
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1979 |
Leader of the Ba'ath party was Saddam Hussein |
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Saddam's personality |
Charming if he wanted something Would remove anyone that threatened him from power Killed 500 members of his own party Arrested thousands of other members who threatened him Wanted Iraq to be the most powerful countries in the Arab area of the world |
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Iran-iraq war |
1980-1988 Saddam/Iraq invaded Iran to try to show strength Drained Iraq if money and weapons USA helped with money Europe helped with materials for chemical weapons Around 10000 Iranians killed with chemical weapons 250000 Iraqi troops killef |
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War debt |
Saddam had $80 billion of debt because of the Iran Iraq war and had to find a way to pay this back |
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The first gulf war 1990 |
To try to get more money and regain some respecr, Saddam invaded a small, oil rich country called kuwait |
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George bush senior |
Ha wanted to push Iraq out of Kuwait so sent in an army of American and British troops. Saddam was defeated quickly however nothing was put into place to remove Saddam from power |
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Sunni muslims |
Saddam was a Sunni muslim |
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Shi'ah and kurds |
Targeted by Hussein and thousands were killed with chemical weapons and airstrikes on villages |
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UN resolution 678 |
Told Saddam to do the following Destroy all WMDs Allow in a weapons destruction team Destroy any chemical weapons Until this there would be restrictions of oil sales |
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UN resolution 688 |
Told Saddam to stop attacking his own people Kurdish region in the north became a no fly zone so Saddam couldn't attack them using aircrafts |
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Saddam's response to the UN resolutions |
Be was as awkward and difficult as possible British had to attack and destroy more Iraqi military bases Disease increased Starvation of Iraqi people In 1996 he had two of his son in laws killed He cut off important water supply and drained a marshland in the south leading to more death |
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China, France, and Russia |
Iraq owed money to these countries and so they didn't want to become an enemy of iraq. They did not vote and said they disagreed with the war and the multinational force |
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Was the war legal? |
UN resolutions said they 'may' use force of iraq didn't follow resolution orders. Many countries therefore decided another resolution would need to be found first. However Tony Blair and George bush decided to invade anyway |
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Causes of the invasion of iraq |
-failed to remove Saddam after the gulf war -George W Bush was in power and wanted to make an impact unlike his dad -strong leaders also wanted him gone from power -Media: Rupert Murdoch (owner of a worldwide newspaper) and fox TV both supported the invasion making the public back it as well -UK/Tony Blair: in their best interests to stay friends with America -other efforts have failed to remove Saddam from power -9/11: thought Saddam was working with al-quada -Saddam continued to go against UN resolutions |
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Who was in the multinational force? |
America Britain Denmark Australia Italy Spain Poland |
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Opposition against invasion |
-concern for other Muslim and Arab countries -was it legal -No evidence of WMDs -public opinion -opposition from world leaders |
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Alistair Campbell |
Tony Blair's press secutary who was accused of lying about whether or not there was WMDs or not to the press |
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Hans Blix |
Leader of UN weapons inspector team Concluded there was no WMDs |
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BBC |
Said government had 'sexed up' the story about whether or not there were WMDs or not to get the public on their side |
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Jack Straw |
Foreign secretary for Britain in Blair's government agreed with the Iraq war |
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Robin cook MP |
Previous foreign secretary but resigned because he did not agree with the Iraq war |
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Claire Short |
International development minister Resigned because she did not agree with the Iraq war |
