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Why did the US invade Iraq in 2003?

US WAR AGAINST IRAQ

The Bush Administration in June of 2003 first attacked but than later withdrew its troops from Syria . There was no significant explanation for this act by the United States . This was a pure and simple aggression Than later in August of 2003 George Bush told his people that he is going to launch a more destructive attack on his arch rivals around the world . Than George Bush was approving Israel 's leader Ariel Sharon act of aggression against the Lebanon 's , Palestine 's and Syrians . The World War

3 was not far away at this point

In the beginning of 2004 , in the presidential campaign George Bush clearly pointed out the clear picture of the prospect on more aggression on different countries . Was this extra aggression a way for George Bush to win his first Election ? Or he wanted to steal the Presidency of United States from the people of America like he did in 2000

When the Bush Jr . administration 's aggression against Iraq was over , the United States and the United Kingdom became the belligerent occupants ' of Iraq in accordance with , and subject to the requirements of , the laws of war . Bush Jr 's May 1 , 2003 end of major combat operations ' speech on the deck of a U .S . aircraft carrier was nothing more than a cheap campaign and legally deceptive propaganda stunt Succinctly put , these legal rules of war can be found in the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 , its Additional Protocol One of 1977 , the Hague Regulations of 1907 , and U .S . Army Field Manual 27-10 (1956 which require , inter alia , the preservation of Iraq 's constitutional and domestic legal . Nevertheless , the Bush Jr . administration made it crystal clear that they were going to remake Iraq in their own image and thus not pay the least bit of attention to the laws of war . This has entailed a range of policies which would further U .S /U .K . interests while seeking to drastically curtail future Iraqi options , e .g privatization ' of the Iraqi economy , including and especially its oil industry drafting a new constitution for Iraq to determine the nature and extent of its democracy re-writing Iraq 's laws establishing ad hoc war crimes tribunals along the lines of the Bush Jr . kangaroo courts in Guantanamo de-Baathification indoctrinating Iraqi schoolchildren with American propaganda through extensive reform ' of its education system etc . All of this serves to put the future of Iraq up for sale to the lowest American (and then British and Israeli ) bidders . Such violations of the laws of war are war crimes , establishing the legal predicate for a legitimate Iraqi government in the future to repudiate them all

Oil and Gas as the Key to Global Dominance

There is no denying that oil was at the top of the Bush Jr / Sr hit-list and the fact that Iraq possesses about 11 of the world 's oil reserves . Indeed , prior thereto it was the thirst and lust for oil...

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