Argumentative Essay: Iraq's Invasion Of Iraq

This final paragraph will discuss the invasion of Iraq and the aftermath as we know it. On March 19, Bush announced to the American people over a televised broadcast that “at this hour American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.” On March 20, 2003, the United States and coalition of powers invaded Iraq. The Iraq leader Saddam Hussein went into finding shortly after the initial invasion of Iraq. Within a month, the united coalition was able to capture Iraq’s major cities, as well as the capital city of Baghdad. With Iraq’s leader Saddam Hussein missing and the country being occupied by the United States and its allies, Iraq was controlled

These death and injured number only apply to American soldiers, the death number of Iraqis is even greater. This is no exact number of the amount of Iraqis killed during America’s occupation of Iraq, but the number would roughly be in the hundreds of thousands. The cost of maintaining the Iraq occupation was promised to be no more that $60 Billion, but ended up costing the United States much more. With the fall of Saddam Hussein, the Shia began to supress the Sunni, which ultimately lead to conflict with a Sunni rebel uprising. The Sunni rebel uprising resulted in the fighting against United States troops and the newly formed Iraqi state. This conflict resulted in a civil war within Iraq, resulting in terrorist groups such as Al-Qaeda entering Iraq. As the conflict continued, Iraq became a haven for terrorist group. President Bush’s plan of ending terrorism in Iraq ultimately ended with Iraq becoming a training ground for terrorist groups. The invasion of Iraq and furthermore American leaving Iraq resulted in the birth and power of the terrorist group if the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or ISIL. The terrorist group ISIL is responsible for much terror and death and has become a major problem to the world and American