Lets have a little history lesson
Aug. 2, 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait and the US led a UN military intervention to reverse the invasion
April 3, 1991, UN Security Resolution 687 was passed requiring Iraq to disclose and permit the dismantlement of its weapons of mass destruction programs and submit to long term monitoring of dismantlement
April 7, 1991, and Aug 27, 1992, US, Britain, and France began enforcing no-fly zones in northern and southern Iraq to keep thousands of Iraqi Kurds and Shiites from being killed by their own military
1991-1998, Iraq denied U.N. weapons inspectors open access to suspected sites, continued to build its capability of using weapons of mass destruction, began a genocide of the Kurdish minority, and attempted to assassin George Bush Sr. and further denied UN the right to do its work
Oct 31, 1998, Clinton Changed US policy objective in iraq from containment to regime change
2007-02-11
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