Operation Iraqi Freedom: The 2003 Iraq War

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In 2003 George W. Bush finally told America that Operation Iraqi Freedom had started. The operation was to kill the dictator Saddam Hussein. They wanted to kill him because he was able to get weapons of mass destruction. The U.S was just one of the military groups there. The countries that were involved were United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, and Poland. So it was a pretty big war.
In 2003 the Iraq war started with the U.S military rushing into Iraq. It was an operation to take away the heavy weapons from Saddam Hussein. Chris Tritt was station in the capital of Iraq. He was one of the 1.2 million soldiers from the Marine, Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and National Guard. At Iraq at the time.The war lasted a long time and a lot of things happened

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