Iraq War

interests and international influence are a great concern of U.S. Wars can be a tool to achieve goals. Afghanistan and The Iraq war were considered as these two strategic cards of U.S. The United States invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a response to 9/11 event – an action that was suspected by U.S is of terrorist group Al-Qaeda in order to prevent other security threat to U.S (BBC, 2016). Iraq war was launched in 2003 as a pre-emptive war because of the claim that Saddam Hussein government…

The Iraq war happened through a span of eight years, eight months and twenty eight days. The invasion began when the United States forces wanted to search Iraq who were suspected to have weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and the need to topple the regime of Saddam Hussein, the former reigning leader of Ba’athist Iraq, as he was a threat of terrorism. This essay will provide a detailed analysis of what happened during the Iraq war and with the application to the theory of realism. Realism has…

the day American troops stepped foot onto the foreign desert land that.US now know of as Iraq. Many people have their own opinion about if the United States made the right decision deciding to go to war with this country. So, although the US gained much intel, helped locals and executed Saddam….. Was it the right decision considering all the consequences (good and bad) of the invading and picking apart of Iraq. There are both positive and negative consequences that have come from the US invading…

administration, invaded the country of Iraq and commenced the Iraq War. The rationale given for the Iraq War was that the nation had weapons of mass destruction, which posed an immediate threat to the United States and its allies (Kumar, 2014). Therefore, military intervention was required, which ultimately resulted in the removal of Saddam Hussein, the President of Iraq, from power. The war lasted for eight years and had everlasting effects on the United States and Iraq. The argument of whether…

American involvement in Iraq Justified? War has been apart of mankind 's history since the beginning of time, but what justifies war? Is war just if one nation attacks another? Is war just if one nation hold a citizen from another nation hostage? War is a brutal way of handling a problem the can solved through conversation and negotiation. The United States (US) involvement in Iraq was not a justified war and we had no reason the set foot in the Iraqi territory. A just war is a war that can be…

On March 19th 2003 The United States declared war on Iraq with the main goal being to disarm and lead Iraq to freedom. However, this war has been very controversial. This nine year battle has cost The United States troops, money and divided the nation and the Iraqi citizens their home as they knew it. The United States declaring war on Iraq has many factors that come into play. On September 11th 2001, destruction of the Twin Towers in New York was caused by Foreign radicals. Almost 3000 US…

Can intervention work? A case study of the Iraq War Over the past two decades, intervention has been an important device in the Western foreign policy toolkit to solve conflicts outside their own territories. The word has been associated with both positive and negative connotations: on the one hand, humanitarian, democratic, noble; on the other hand, ambitious, expensive and dangerous. One of the most recent cases of intervention is the Iraq War from 2003 to 2011. In light of the fact that five…

There are many opinions about whether or not the war in Iraq was successful. People want to know if America should have been there in the first place, should we have been sticking our nose where it may not belong? Or was the Middle East a threat that the U.S. couldn’t afford to ignore? Both of these opposing views hold true when comparing the failures and successes of the war, it’s fairly easy to argue both sides, however in my opinion, one side has a stronger argument than the other.…

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,…

The Iran – Iraq war started in 1980. It was one of the longest wars in the Middle East at that time. Saddam Hussein was the president of Iraq and Ruhollah Khomeini was the Iranian leader. An air invasion kicked off the war on September 22nd from the Iraqis. While some debate that the U.S. helped Iraq win the war, Saddam Hussein is the main reason for a lot of people dying during the war. He used chemical weapons against Iran as well as fellow Iraqis, which resulted in over one million deaths…