The powerful phrase, “weapons of mass destruction,” is often viewed as the underlying catalyst for invading Saddam Hussein’s Baathist led country. After the shocking events that surfaced on September 11th; the world precariously anticipated on a plan of recourse on how to defend against the uprising of radical Arab groups in the Middle East. In early 2003, on the pretense that Saddam did in fact have an advanced weapons program, the United States finally decided to invade Iraq once again. That same invasion would be the precursor that followed eight long years in which Iraq experienced the downfall of their socialist authoritarian leader, the creation of a Democratic Iraq and the effects of a complicated sectarian Iraq after U.S. leaves.
To understand why we invaded Iraq, one must also have knowledge of how Iraq became the country we invaded in early 2003. Dating back to 7th century, differences between the two largest Muslim groups originated when Prophet Muhammed took his last breath. These two groups referred to as Shias and Sunnis …show more content…
The hundreds of thousands of lives and the unimaginable amounts of money poured into this country serve to remind people what was sacrificed. Although the invasion and removal of Iraqi’s tyrant were successful, the democratic Iraq we hoped for is still a project in the making. In my opinion it’s still too early to say whether it was success or failure; one can argue that Saddam could have been close to acquiring or developing weapons of mass destruction and that his Sunni dominated agendas could later form something more devastating than the current issue we have with ISIS. Instead now we are left with ISIS, who has waged war against Syria, Iran and the rest of the world. War unfortunately is a necessary evil, but with all things in life, you can only hope to find the silver lining in which the people of Iraq become united so that peace can
To understand why we invaded Iraq, one must also have knowledge of how Iraq became the country we invaded in early 2003. Dating back to 7th century, differences between the two largest Muslim groups originated when Prophet Muhammed took his last breath. These two groups referred to as Shias and Sunnis …show more content…
The hundreds of thousands of lives and the unimaginable amounts of money poured into this country serve to remind people what was sacrificed. Although the invasion and removal of Iraqi’s tyrant were successful, the democratic Iraq we hoped for is still a project in the making. In my opinion it’s still too early to say whether it was success or failure; one can argue that Saddam could have been close to acquiring or developing weapons of mass destruction and that his Sunni dominated agendas could later form something more devastating than the current issue we have with ISIS. Instead now we are left with ISIS, who has waged war against Syria, Iran and the rest of the world. War unfortunately is a necessary evil, but with all things in life, you can only hope to find the silver lining in which the people of Iraq become united so that peace can