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into Iraq due to various reasons, which include the victory in the Afghanistan war, support from
the congress, the public and media, nation building, weapons of mass destruction and oil in Iraq.
The paper therefore discusses the reasons to show why the US invaded Iraq.
Immediately following the 9/11 event, the United States had experienced immense
victory in Afghanistan. The country had succeeded in dealing with the Taliban in Afghanistan
and therefore the assumption was that Iraq would follow suit (Pillar). The United States managed
to accomplish what the Soviet Union had failed in just two months and considering that the
country had managed to trounce Saddam Hussein before, they felt that taking on Iraq would not
be a challenge and therefore proceeded with their invasion of the nation.
The other reason for the invasion was the support the United States experienced from the
congress, the media and the public. Both houses of the congress had by the 20
th
of October in
2002 passed twenty-three orders that justified the removal of Saddam from power. President
Bush at the time had managed to achieve what Clinton failed to do as he gained support of the
congress and on the eve of the war, he had managed to gain more than seventy percent of the
support of Americans (Kull). It therefore gave the president and the United States the push it
needed to go into Iraq.
Reason number three for going into Iraq was weapons of mass destruction. The United
States held the belief that the missing vast stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction were in the
possessions of Saddam (Record). President Bush believed that other reasons might not have
caused such urgency for invading Iraq as did the notion that Saddam Hussein was in possession
of an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. Therefore, procession into Iraq was to acquire such
weapons thus preventing any activity that would have involved the use of these weapons.
