Reasons Of The Iraqi War

Amanda Shimada Karen Orduña

Reasons of the invasion of Iraq The Iraqi War is one of the most controversial and intriguer subjects in today’s society. This war became an event where we see the US government trying to convince the American society that Iraq is dangerous and it’s on our duty to protect, save and fight against the injustice of the country. Of course, the need of reasons is fundamental to the start of a justified war but in this case many made up arguments and half truths were showed to convince the occupation of Iraq. The main reason why the United States wanted to occupy Iraq is the oil factor. The facts that Saddam Hussein is an abuser of his country, that Iraq contains supposed nuclear weapons, or the war against terrorism, among others, are only pretexts to the conviction to take over Iraq and start to raid the country. The Bush’s administration said they wanted to make Iraq a better country changing the type of government they had with Saddam Hussein, since he was committing genocide in Iraq, and they wanted to exterminate the terrorists around the world. These arguments might seem very logical and convincing to start the occupation but as we saw, once the country was occupied there was no help to the Iraqis citizens or attempt to improve their type of government. Many reasons are questionable for the beginning of this war. According to the book The Italian Letter, a fake letter was enough to build the case for war in Iraq. The US Government needed evidence to start the war and seeing that Iraq wasn’t totally involved in the 09/11 or that there was no evidence of nuclear weapons, the Bush’s administration

had to rely on any document or fact that could show evidence about the threat to Americans whether it was true or not. The letter shows a purchase of 500 tons a year of pure uranium between Mamadou Tandja (the president of Niger in 2000) and Saddam Hussein, it was originally written in French but as the one who discovered was an Italian journalist Elisabetta Burba, the letter was translated in Italian. Without any copy made, the letter was handed to the US government with a package of supporting documents. The fact that pure uranium could be used to make destructive weapons made the Bush’s administration interested on getting the letter as evidence that Iraq was truly making weapons, but actually it wasn’t pure uranium but was a term given to yellowcake, a lightly processed form of the ore more easily transportable then raw uranium. This documents’ evidence and facts gave result the to the start of the invasion on March 20, 2003 and the toppled of Saddam Hussein, but the United States had invaded Iraq with no plans as to how to actually administer the country. There are many other factors that provoked the Iraqi War, but mostly was the interest of a natural resource. Ex-president George W. Bush gained the substantial support for military actions and the Americans by showing half truths and the acceptance of his proposals. According to one of these reasons, the Iraqi society would be improved and their government would turn into a democratic nation, but the acts were others since Iraqi people are seen being abused and no support has been given to their relatives or the reconstruction of their communities, and even worse, the same US personnel abuse of the Iraqi people as Hussein did. The Iraqi War was justified with distorted arguments that supported Bush’s and his administration ambition.