THE WAR IN IRAQ
The main cause of the U.S. invasion of Iraq was due to the Americans attempt at overthrowing the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. The western world spearheaded by the U.S. were against Iraq of course for more than the main reason but the other forms of reasoning were announced to the world. More than 150 members of Parliament signed a Commons motion prohibiting any attacks that weren't backed by the United Nations. The European countries and United States legalized for invasion of Iraq due to Saddam being "a very bad man and should not be trusted an inch." With these words, the United Stated invaded and interfered Iraq claiming self-defense for their reasoning behind the invasion. The United States clearly was in offense and did not have a clear right to self-defense. However, administrations confirmed that the U.S. was in fact entitled to defend itself against any potential attack that may take place in the future. President Bush referred to Saddam Hussein’s regime as “a grave and gathering danger” during his speech back in 2002. He explained that Saddam’s regime had mass destruction weapons and that he provided weapons for terrorists. The U.S. administration also said that the United States had a right to self-defense on grounds because the Iraqi regime was related to Al Qaeda. U.S. administration confirmed that Al-Qaeda was responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the United States back in 2001. The second allegation on the attack was that the U.S. believed that Iraq had chemical and nuclear weapons programs and were in the midst of developing long range missiles as well. However, it was found that weapons of mass destruction were not used by Iraq first hand and the United Nations did not discover any weapons of mass destruction before the war began or in the middle of the war. U.S. intelligence suggested that those weapons were distributed and armed with established command and control by Iraqi forces. Observers saw that U.S. forces toppled the Iraqi military and overturned the authorization to use such weapons. Other people believed that Iraq had little incentive to use those types of weapons because they had a limited military against U.S. forces, Iraq had special delivery options given to them by the U.S. and allied forces; and the use of such weapons would flip the world’s opinion against Iraq. The allegations were not considered justified and the attacking by the United States was still perceived as an unprovoked invasion of Iraq. It actually caused more retaliated terrorism against U.S. targets. Invading Iraq would only increase the number of radical Islamists around the world, acting almost as a recruitment of some sort for Al-Qaeda. The Bush administration wanted to put all its resources and efforts together in order to fight the enemy Al-Qaeda. No other cause for the U.S. were seen credible for invading Iraq at that time. Another cause to invade Iraq at the time, was because of the economic benefit through oil resources. Iraq had the potential to produce huge volumes of oil than it was producing before the U.S.'s invasion. A set of "historic circumstances and conditions" were believed to have decreased production of Iraqi oil including the devastation caused by the Iran-Iraq war, the first Gulf War, and the UN sanctions that followed that war. Saddam also decreased oil exports in order to gain leverage over the American and Israeli foreign policies. The US combined with other countries and formed coalitions in order to prove that their claim for an invasion on Iraq was legal.The invasion was not legal due to UN not giving them authorization to use force. The acts against Iraq placed a huge dilemma on the U.S. and weakened its position and powers with the UN due to it's illegal invasion. However, the US invasion of Iraq removed an evil dictator from power and led to positive political and economic changes in Iraq soon after.
