Reasons For The Invasion Of Iraq

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The invasion of Iraq by the US military in 2003 is considered as one of the most controversial actions taken by the US in modern history (Lynch and Singh, 2008, p.148). The decision to remove Saddam Hussain’s regime can be said to be motivated by many reasons and varieties of perspectives (Duffield, 2005). There is no consensus among scholars on the real motivation behind such decision but the decision to go to war can be understood from economic, ideological, political and strategic motives. The paper argues that; there is two class of reasons behind the decision i.e. the declared and undeclared reason as asserted by Amin (2014). The undeclared reason is advocated as the major reasons why the US invaded Iraq. The personal opinion …show more content…

The piece provided the motivation to invade Iraq citing the possession of WMD, the support to terrorism by the regime, the threats the regime has become to its neighbors and the tyrannical nature of the Saddam Hussein regime (Feith, 2008). Additionally, the US president then outlined the clear motivation for invading Iraq which he state as; destroying Iraq WMD, to end Saddam sponsorship of international terrorism and freedom to the Iraqi people (Cramer and Thrall, 2011. p 1). This indicated that America declared motivation to invade Iraq can be hinged on three pronounced reasons as declared by the president in a televised address to the American people. Based on the foregoing, we shall examine the three major declared reasons for Invading Iraq as indicated by the US president (George W. …show more content…

The Intelligence report provide was not precise before going to war. According to Enemark (2005) the UN inspectors tried their possible best to dismantle all Iraq’s evidence of possessing weapons programme; this made it difficult for the US to find any piece of evidence to legitimized their invasion on the basis of weapon of mass destruction claimed. Therefore, while Saddam Hussein and Iraq did not have any weapon of mass destruction or an expanding programs of such, there is a strong possibility that such allegation was created as a means to invade Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein from

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