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innocent civilians being captured and taken against their will

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suspected locations of weapons of mass destruction

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The Iraq war had hundreds of thousands of deaths, majority of which being innocent civilians. There was no significant reason for all of these lives to be lost and the US government and Bush administration faced backlash for this for years to come.

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Because the United States went into this war on their own terms and did not listen to the UN,  the US faced backlash from many countries. US citizens were also mad and the government had to face backlash from their very own because the US's means for war did not justify the immoral violence and plain disregard for human life.

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How did this compare to what they actually did?

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How did this compare to what they actually did?

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There were several anti-war protests that occurred in the United States because most citizens felt the war was unnecessary but the U.S. continued its plans anyway. In March 2003 they sent 125,000 US troops and 45,000 UK troops to Iraq. Though the invasion started with the front that they were just investigating Saddam Hussein’s regime, majority of the troops targeted civilians and instilled fear in the Iraqi. This was done because they wanted Iraq to view the U.S. as a major power that should not be messed with.

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Within the span of an hour, three planes were hijacked and struck the north and south tower of the World Trade Center In NYC, as well as the Pentagon in D.C. A fourth plane crashed in rural P.A. after those aboard the flight decided to fight the hijackers and detour the plane. This was a terrorist attack lead by Al-Qaeda.

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What did the US make it look like their goals were?

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What did the US make it look like their goals were?

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The US’s goals are slightly unclear because although the Bush administration pushed the narrative that Iraq was harboring terrorist groups and were also in possession of WMD, neither of these were ever proven true; they were solely speculation. Majority of civilians agreed that the war was unnecessary and did not requite 9/11. Because of this, the US really wanted to frame this war (which was ill-conceived and planned in secret) as a response to good intelligence of a credible threat, and a way to better another country with the introduction of American values.

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After the terrorist attack on September 11, the US feared that Iraq posed a deadly threat because they could provide nuclear weapons to terrorists on quick notice. They feared that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and on October 11, 2002, Congress passed a resolution that authorized the president to use US armed forces as he “determined it necessary and appropriate to defend the national security of the United States.”