What started the war in Iraq?

Question

Please include as much details as you can. I am really interested on this subject. What was the conflict between these two place and religions? Thanks.

Also, please try to answer this question:

What did Iraq do that made the US become involved?

Can you please explain what WMD is?

Answer 1

Saddam Hussein's refusal to allow UN inspectors full access to search for possible WMDs in the country of Iraq

Answer 2

The reasons behind the US invading Iraq all depends on which set of "facts" you choose to believe. Some say the threat of WMD's (weapons of mass destruction) others say that it was to keep the massive amount of oil that Iraq produces safe for transportation all over the world. There are even others that believe that the US wanted to control a country that produces such massive amounts of oil. Some more believe that Iraq hid the powers that be behind the 9/11 attacks.

The inspectors not being allowed to inspect was merely a simple excuse and few believe that is actually the reason behind the invasion.

The truth is actually known by only a select few that include G.W. Bush and those employed by him at the time.

My personal belief is that W wanted to finish what his Father couldn't and get rid of the most uncontrollable, evil, self-centered dictator the world has ever seen. Whether it is right or wrong all depends on the "truth" that you choose to believe, but regardless of the reasons behind the choice every single person in this country should be behind our troops supporting them and hoping that they all come home safely.

The troops are only following orders from the Commander-in Chief, they should not be held responsible for what the boss decides to do.

Answer 3

Well... the war with the US in Iraq started because Sadam Hussein was a mass murderer who butchered his own people, and America has a duty to protect people who are oppressed. Then when Sadam hid the terrorists involved in 9/11, it finally gave us the incentive we needed to do something we should have done a long time ago.
The fight between the Shiite and Sunni (sp on both?) started when Mohammad died. Some people thought that his daughter should 'rule' per se. Others thought that since she was a female, she wasn't fit, and it should be passed to his closet living relative (a cousin, or uncle I think it was). And so the two divided. One followed his daughter, the other followed the male relative.

Answer 4

The first time was to free Kuwait from Saddam Hussein. We should have finished him off then but we didn't. He then built the third largest army in the world and was trying to acquire nuclear weapons. While doing this he was murdering 300,000 of his own people each year including using gas weapons against the curds. Americans were the only people with the morals and courage to stand up to Saddam and take him out.

Note that we are no longer fighting a war in Iraq. They are fighting a civil war against themselves and we are stuck in the middle.

Answer 5

I believe Bush started an unconstitutional and illegal 'war' against another sovereign nation for three insipid reasons:
1) The Bush family wanted revenge against Hussein for humiliating George H.W. Bush during Desert Storm;
2) Cheney and his Exxon-Mobile buddies want all that OIL swimming underneath Iraq's sands so they can continue to feed American motorists' dependency on cheap, easily-accessible foreign OIL;
3) The giant U.S. military/industrial complex needed another 'war' to boost its sagging profits. After World War II, industrialists realized just how profitable war could be, so they bought up all the politicians, hired price lobbyists, and formed special interest groups to encourage and promote 'war' - at any cost. Thus, the U.S. was embroiled in the Korean Conflict; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the Cold War; Vietnam; and Desert Storm (just to mention a few) so that huge corporations like McDonnell-Douglas, Sikorsky, Halliburton, and countless other 'war' suppliers could reap billions of dollars in profits off the backs of American taxpayers.
Iraq has been involved in its own civil war for more than 14 decades. The U.S. cannot stop that fight, but Bush needed to persuade Americans that this was a justifiable action: so, he lied about 'weapons of mass destruction' and then claimed he wanted to bring democracy to Iraq.
The U.S. government doesn't give a damn about bringing democracy to Iraq. We are there for OIL and MONEY, and - by God - if it means a few hundred thousand Iraqis and a few thousand U.S. soldiers must die, so be it. -RKO-

Answer 6

The Iraq war was started by Bush and the CIA believing that Iraq had WMD and so Bush said that in order to guard America against Saddam he must be eliminated from Power and so went the invasion of Iraq. So we remove Saddam from Power but guess what! No WMD's!!

Answer 7

The Iraq War started on the 3rd week of the 3rd month in the 3rd year of the 3rd
millennium

The hidden number of the date of the attack 3333 is a HOLY DAY IN SATANISIM

Answer 8

They refused to follow the UN mandated search for WMD.
They had several deadlines pass with no UN inspectors allowed in Iraq. They should have let the inspectors in.

WMD - weapons of mass destruction. The UN checked all countries they thought had the ability to make them. Iraq was the only country to refuse inspection.

Answer 9

We didn't. Saddam did. You have to go back to his invasion of Kuwait. Then work your way through the UN resolutions, WMD inspectors getting jacked around for 13 years, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi being murdered, tortured, gassed whole villages, then shooting planes in the no fly zone, oil for food money going to building his palaces and people starving. Saddam paying the UN, France, and Russia to keep the US and UK off his ***. Saddam wanted to control the oil in the middle east and drive the prices up to $300 a barrel. So we took him out. Now we are there to help the newly elected government get strong enough to protect themselves. Not helping with Iran and Syria and there BS. But we're working it.

Answer 10

Which war in Iraq?

There is the three-way sectarian conflict between the Sunnis, the Shiites and the Kurds. That goes back decades, if not centuries, depending upon how you define the starting point.

Then there is the US versus Iraq, which started when Bush decided to depose Saddam Hussein and topple the old Iraqi government. After Saddam fell, that turned into US versus everyone else in the area.