Iraq War
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The US led the war against Iraq but it did not begin until in March 2003, as many Americans believe. The US and Britain had been waging an undeclared war against Iraq for twelve years, ever since the end of the Gulf Slaughter in 1991. The aim has been the destruction of Iraqi society enabling the US and Britain to gain control of Iraq's huge oil sources. As a result of economic fine against Iraq, the prevention of the delivery of much needed medical and other supplies because of US vetoes in the U.N. Security Council, and the cancer effects of depleted uranium left over from the 1991 Gulf Slaughter, over a million people (two-thirds of them children) died. On 16th of March 2003, the U.S. government advised the
U.N. inspectors to leave their unfinished work and exit from Iraq. On the 20th of March the U.S.-led coalition conducted a surprise military invasion of
Iraq without declaring war. The invasion led to an occupation and
the eventual capture of President Hussein, who was later tried in an Iraqi
court of law and executed by the new Iraqi
government. Violence against coalition forces and among various sectarian groups
soon led to the Iraqi insurgent, strife between many Sunni and Shia Iraqi
groups, and the emergence of a new faction of Al-Qaeda in Iraq.