Bush's War In Iraq

Bush’s war in Iraq has done untold damage to the United States. It has impaired our military power and undermined the morale of our armed forces. Our troops were trained to project overwhelming power. They were not trained for occupation duties.” I completely agree with George Sorors thoughts on the war between the United States and Iraq.
In the morning hours of March, 2003, the U.S. and its allies initiated the invasion of Iraq. On April 9,U.S. forces formally occupied Baghdad, and on December 13 the same year, Saddam Hussein, the former Iraqi dictator was captured while hiding in a cellar in the outskirts of Tikrit. After the first Gulf war in 1991 Iraq was told by the United Nations to stop testing weapons of mass destruction and biological
However, after the 1991 Gulf War, President George H. W. Bush signed a presidential finding authorizing the CIA to topple Saddam. A 1998 law passed by Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton authorized up to $97 million in military assistance to Iraqi opposition forces ‘to remove the regime headed by Saddam Hussein’ and ‘promote the emergence of a democratic government’. There was a considerable change on the attitudes of the United States representatives and senate in regards to the conflict in Iraq when George W. Bush took office in January 2001. A group of former democrats, who represented a more expansionist foreign policy than the traditional realist line of the Republican Party, gained a foothold in the party as early as in
I believe the incidents on 9/11 feuled the ignition in the hearts of American people. My professor in International Relations once stated, “ In order to be a great leader you have to think based off of rationale and not emotion. The former President Bush did the exact antithesis of that statement. He completely reacted off emotion and unsettle history between his father, President George H.W. Bush. and Saddam Hussien. This ultimately resulted in the invasion of the Iraq War. The United States represented a line where national measures and freedom of action were the backbone of American foreign policy. Other nations viewed the United States as obliging to the rules and regulations when it is at our best interest, but not in the best interest of everyone . For example, “Using organizations like the U.N. was only of interest when the U.S. was unable to solve a problem on its own, or when Washington was guaranteed support for its own policy.” In order to be positive, there existed a significant degree of antagonism between this group and the old, more traditional realist viewpoint of foreign policy within the Republican Party. Republican camp gained the upper hand over the traditional realists in the wake of September 11, 2001. (Tor G. Jakobsen,