The Iraq War Essay

The war in Iraq is still to this day one of the “consequential and contentious in U.S. history. Two sides butting heads, over moral, religious, geographical, and down right prideful reasons occurred on and off the battleground. The Iraq War was the catalyst, that generated two opposing sides that either advocated for the breaking of state sovereignty by entering into Iraq or advocated that there is no actually evidence for such breach of global law. Many influential factors impacted the decisions made surrounding the events that lead to the invasion of Iraq. These factors included but are not limited to: the attacks on 9/11, unstable governments in the Middle East, the notions of weapons of mass destruction, availability of oil, personal agendas

Where president Ronald Reagan intervened in the situation to supply intelligence to “Baghdad and Saddam Hussein.” Now almost 20 years later, through policy and military force Saddam Hussein and Iraq had become American’s number one enemy. Individuals such as Colin Powell (the Security of State during the Iraq War) strongly advocated against such a costly war, stating that “at unpardonable expense in terms of money, lives lost and ruined regional relationships.” Yet, on the other side vice president Cheney and security of defense Rumsfeld saw that continued cat and mouse game Saddam Hussein was playing both in domestic and foreign policy games and both were present on pressuring president Bush to end all power Saddam Hussein had. Such individual had a dangerous mix of strong biases and strong power, which generated to not necessarily falsified prewar information, but intelligence which has many significant errors due to such biases. Including the “information/intelligence” that individuals from the Iraqi government presented to the United States, which had zero traces of actual hard evidence that Saddam Hussein was connected the attacks on 9/11. Even though both sides can and still say there were right for x, y, and z reasons one thing remains true that the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq are one still felt today and quiet possibly one felt for years to