The Iraq War began with the invasion of Iraq by a coalition of countries including the United States. Bush and United Kingdom Prime Minister, Tony Blair made the final decision to invade Iraq after they became concerned that Iraq was developing weapons of mass destruction. The entire mission’s objective was, "to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people.” Declaring war was not their first strategy in neutralizing Iraq. Bush and Blair pled with the United Nations Security Council to call for Iraq to cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors to ensure that the President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, was not in possession of weapons of mass destruction. It was only
