Research Paper - War in Iraq

Natasha Biletnikoff

Research Paper

Composition II

In 1991 President George Bush sent U.S. troops to Kuwait to force out Iraqi President

Saddam Hussein and his troops who were trying to take over Kuwait, thus starting the Persian

Gulf War. This war started in 1991 and this war also ended in 1991 and an agreement was

made between George Bush and Saddam Hussein. The agreement was that Iraq must destroy

any chemical and biological weapons they had. This peace treaty also entailed that United

Nations inspectors would search Iraq on a regular basis to make sure these weapons were

being destroyed. An embargo also kept Iraq from selling oil or buying weapons on international

markets until the United Nations confirmed that Iraq was complying with the peace treaty.

Problems with Iraq still continued after the Persian Gulf War through Bush's Presidency

and into Bill Clintons. It was thought that Iraq was hiding weapons and blocking inspectors

from certain areas containing these weapons.(www.nationalpriorities.org) Saddam Hussein claimed he was

following all the rules and demanded that the embargo be taken away but it was not this easy. Clinton

almost started the second war with Iraq but an outrage by the Grassroots peace group put an end to it.

(www.nonviolence.org)Clinton's presidency lasted two terms and then George W. Bush, George Bush's son,

took over.

Only after a short time into George W. Bush's presidency the United States was

attacked by Afghani terrorists. The World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon were

crashed into by hijacked commercial airplanes. This set the United States in an uproar. Bush

reacted to this by starting a war against terrorism. Well that's how it started, but it has turned

into another war against Iraq and thousands of American military troops have been deployed

overseas to fight a battle with no real known cause.(www.nationalpriorities.org) Thus bringing up the point

of why war is unnecessary at this time.

There is no tie between Saddam Hussein and the terrorist attacks on America on

September 11, 2001.(www.nationalpriorities.org) Then why are we focusing our attention on Iraq and not so

much on Afghanistan anymore? George W. Bush believes Saddam Hussein has chemical and biological

weapons that are a threat to the United States.(www.nationalpriorities.org) However, there are other

countries who have more leathal weapons such as the United States, the Ukraine, Pakistan, Russia, China,