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The Iraq War

The Iraq War. Was a military campaign that began on March 20, 2003, with the invasion of Iraq by a multinational force led by troops from the United States under the administration of President George W. Bush and the United Kingdom under Prime Minister Tony Blair. By Angel Pritchard.

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The Iraq War

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  1. The Iraq War Was a military campaign that began on March 20, 2003, with the invasion of Iraq by a multinational force led by troops from the United States under the administration of President George W. Bush and the United Kingdom under Prime Minister Tony Blair. By Angel Pritchard

  2. U.S Spending in Iraq • Spent & Approved War-Spending - About $900 billion of US taxpayers' funds spent or approved for spending through November 2010. • Lost & Unaccounted for in Iraq - $9 billion of US taxpayers' money and $549.7 million in spare parts shipped in 2004 to US contractors. Also, per ABC News, 190,000 guns, including 110,000 AK-47 rifles. • Missing - $1 billion in tractor trailers, tank recovery vehicles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades and other equipment and services provided to the Iraqi security forces. • Mismanaged & Wasted in Iraq - $10 billion, per Feb 2007 Congressional hearings.

  3. Facts about the War • A US-led coalition of 49 countries invaded Iraq and overthrew the government within three weeks. • Over 4,000 US soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have died. • The invasion of Iraq led to an occupation and the eventual capture of President Hussein, who was later tried in an Iraqi court of law and executed by the new Iraqi government. • Following the invasion, the U.S.-led Iraq Survey Group concluded that Iraq had ended its nuclear, chemical, and biological programs in 1991 and had no active programs at the time of the invasion but that Iraq intended to resume production once sanctions were lifted.

  4. Iraqis attack • Iraqis danced and waved the country's pre-1991 flag in central Baghdad's Firdos Square after U.S. Marines helped to topple a larger-than-life statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. • Several hundred Iraqi men waved and shouted to the U.S. soldiers in the square, opposite the Palestine Hotel where two journalists died Tuesday when a U.S. tank fired on the building. • A small group of men climbed the statue and attached a rope around its neck.

  5. Bibliography • 2011, October, the State Department will assume responsibility for training the Iraqi police, and Kurdish peshmerga forces.. "Iraq News - Breaking World Iraq News - The New York Times." Times Topics. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2011. <http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iraq/index.html>. • "A TIMELINE." IRAQ WAR. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Mar. 2011. <thinkprogress.org/iraq-timeline/>. • Cordesman, Anthony H.. "The Iraq War: strategy, tactics, and ... - Google Books." Google Books. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2011. <http://books.google.com/books?id=7cU8Kpzu9osC&printsec=frontcover&dq=iraq+war&source=bll&ots=SmSq33oHnw&sig=-KqHooWuU_6PgqJ0aMwAZzlqc8I&hl=en&ei=4zqCTa7pCY71gAfi083cCA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=19&ved=0CIEBEOgBMBI#v=onepage&q&f=false>. • Email. "War Wire : Pictures, Videos, Breaking News." Breaking News and Opinion on The Huffington Post. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2011. <http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/warwire>. • "War in Iraq - Special Reports from CNN.com." CNN.com - Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2011. <http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/>.

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