Pros And Cons Of The Iraq War

“My fellow citizens, at this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people, and to defend the world from grave danger.” (President Bush) In 2003, when President Bush declared war on Iraq, he argued that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and intended to use them on the United States. I think Iraq did not have these weapons because there were no real indicators of them; most of the alleged WMDs were left over from the Iraq-Iran war, and we didn't end up finding any. I believe America used the 9/11 bombings as an excuse to invade Iraq. In 1999, the International Atomic Energy Agency verified that there was no indication of Iraq possessing nuclear weapons. Just four years later,

If this proves anything, I think it proves that the United States went into Iraq for a different reason. All though, that has yet to be admitted by anyone. The only weapons we found were Iraq-Iran war leftovers. The reason for invading Iraq was so that we could collect WMDs and free the people. The problem was that Iraq didn't have any WMDs. They had chemical weapons manufactured before 1991 during the Iraq-Iran War. The weapons were not American-made but had an American design, most likely ripped off and then sold to Iraq. Many troops in Iraq were going to places that had been bombed, or they found a bomb, or they thought they were making bombs and destroying the material. It was hard to tell what was chemical and what was not because they looked nearly identical. So soldiers got exposed to harmful chemicals. We went to Iraq to find WMDs, but we didn't find any, and many US soldiers suffered the consequences of it. The biggest reason I don't think there were WMDs in Iraq is that we didn't find any. The United States was in Iraq for 8 years, 8 months, and 26 days. They still came out with no WMDs. This, in my opinion, fully supports how there were never any WMDs to begin