How Did The War Contribute To The Destabilization Of Iraq

The United States invaded Iraq on March 20th, 2003. Before the invasion, Iraq was in post-war reconstruction after losing the First Gulf War in 1991. Saddam Hussein’s terrible leadership caused Iraq to be a country in poverty. The United States invaded Iraq in order to assassinate Hussein and to stabilize Iraq. Saddam Hussein and his family moved from city to city to escape the assassination. The United States had bombed many cities and killed many civilians during this search for Hussein. The United States invasion of Iraq led to the destabilization of Iraq which caused the economy to fail, an unstoppable humanitarian crisis, the destruction of cultural heritage, and made a change within the political system.
The economy of Iraq became very unstable after the invasion. Iraq was
By this, Iraq lost control of what brought the most currency in, oil. The cost of the war caused Iraq to go into great debt. At the end of the war, Iraq was 800 billion dollars in debt, but with medical treatment, replacing vehicles, and etc. the cost moved up to 4 trillion dollars in debt. There was an extreme measure of unemployment and people living in poverty after the war. The unemployment was rampant before the occupation at 28.1 percent in 2003, but when the de-Baathification order sent thousands of state employees home, the problem worsened. The rate dropped to 11.7 percent in 2007, but came up to 15 percent in 2017 with a rate of 30 percent for the youth attempting to enter