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The Iraq War Was Unjustified
The Iraq War was Unjustified
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September 9, 2011
Comm/215 Essentials of College writing The Iraq War was Unjustified

There are many reasons why the war Iraq was unjustified. Until today, Iraq has not been found to have weapons of mass destruction. There are beliefs that former President George W. Bush simply waged war on Iraq because of their oil. Iraq as a country and the former President Saddam Hussein had no link to al-Qaeda terrorist group. The United States congress, based on wrong intelligence from the Bush’s administration agreed unanimously to go to war with Iraq, despite the fact that the Unites Nations disagreed with the decision. Because of the decision to wage war on Iraq, The United States lost most of its allies. “A war on Iraq for the purpose of “regime change” would not be a legal war under international law. Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter states: “All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purpose of the United Nations.” (Miller, 2003).
On September 11, 2001, two planes crashed into the World Trade Center. Many Americans died because of the deadly attack. It was one of the deadliest attacks on U.S soil. One plane crashed into part of the pentagon, and the another plane crashed into an open field. Based on these attacks by the al-Qaeda terrorist group, President Bush declared war on the Taliban in Afghanistan in an attempt to capture the 9/11 master-mind Osama Bin Laden. Approximately two years later, Bush also declared war on Iraq because of misleading information that Saddam Hussein harbored weapons of mass destruction.
The 2003 Iraq War lasted less than three weeks. It began in the early morning hours of March 20, when American missiles struck Baghdad. By April 9, U.S. forces had advanced into Baghdad. By April 15 Iraqi leader



References: Cost of war to the United States. (September, 2011). Cost of war. Retrieved from http://www.costofwar.com Farley, J. E. (February, 2004). An American attack on Iraq is Not Justified. Opposing viewpoints, 45. Retrieved from http://www.coursework.info/social_studies/politics/international relations Iraq body count. (September, 2011). Retrieved from http://www.iraqbodycount.org Miller, A. (January, 2003). 101 reasons Not to Go to War with Iraq. Retrieved from http://work.colm.edu/~amiller/pp012103

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