The president has made statements to invade Iraq since 2002.Stating that "Iraq continues to flaunt its hostility toward America and to support terror," and even adding that “states like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger.” is Bush during his speech to invade Iraq.
Saddam Hussein -was president of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. In his time in office Saddam suppressed the groups that opposed him.Hussein’s Arab Socialist Ba 'ath Party had its power base among Sunni Arab communities.
Operation Phantom Fury-was an offensive attack during the Iraq War. With US, Iraqi, and the British leading the attack.In November and December of 2004 was considered the highest point of violence in the city of Fallujah.
The aftermath of the fight cause the US to lose 51 soldiers in the battle and had 425 seriously injured . The Iraqi lost 8 and had 43 wounded soldiers. The insurgents were the ones who had the wrist of it because they lost around 1250 to 1300 rebels.
US said costed them 50-60 billion but later after studies found out the war costed about $2.2 trillion dollars that could
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military and political figures have attested to this in the years following the invasion. For the first time in about 30 years, Western oil companies are exploring for and producing oil in Iraq from some of the world 's largest oil fields are located there and reaping the enormous profit.While the U.S. has also maintained a fairly consistent level of Iraq oil imports since the invasion, the benefits are not finding their way through Iraq 's economy or society.These outcomes were by design, the result of a decade of U.S. government and oil company