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THE IRAQ WAR CASE

By:-

Group No. 3

Kanika M(2013128)Lakshay Sahdev (2013139)

Mandeep Mohandas(2013145)

Manisha Ghosh(2013146)

Bhavesh Mehta (2013151)

Mrigang Saurabh Dwivedi (2013158)Navneet Sinha(2013161)


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CONTENTS Background

Timeline

Certain Points of Contention

Concepts Related

Conclusion


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BACKGROUND 9/11 attack on WTC

Suspicion of Iraq harbouring Al-Qaida terrorist

Weapons of mass destruction in Iraqs custody


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TIMELINE 20019/11 attack

2001 October 7Enduring Freedom ; US attacksAfghanistan

2002UN invited by Iraq for discussion on weapons; USgovt. passes law to use force against Iraq

2003 March 19Operation Iraqi Freedom ; War on Iraqdeclared without any consent from UN with a coalition of38 countries


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TIMELINE 2003 December 13 - Saddam Hussein captured

2004Formation of interim government

2005Elections in Iraq; Operation Matador launched

2006Saddam Hussein executed; Attack on Golden

mosque, Samara; power in Iraq handed over to the newgovt.; Democrats win the mid-term elections

2007 - Additional 20000 troops committed


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CERTAIN POINTS OF

CONTENTION War Lead to recession in U.S.A

Ambiguity in every situation

Incessant changing objectives

May 1st2003 bush televised speech said combat operations in

Iraq have ended

Bush and his administration lost public support


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RELATED CONCEPTS Escalation of Commitment

All through the mission2002-2007;

President Bush keeps on committing resources;

Gray Zoneconstant change in the motive.

2003to stop accumulation of weapons in Iraq; destroysupply system to Al-Qaida

2004to provide favourable atmosphere for elections;suppress insurgency

2005hold elections; hunt down terrorists

2006Finish the war

2007to ensure U.S. victory


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RELATED CONCEPTS Mindfulness

Not successful in curbing the terrorists activities outsideIraq as evident by attacks on Spain & UK.

Even some of the respected figures in US itself wereagainst the mission.

Sunk Cost Fallacy

The task which took the life of over 2000 soldiers needs tobe fulfilled.

With time & money put in the mission, retracting now willfeel like a failure.


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CONCLUSION Situation grave till 2007

High economic costs with expenditure around $563million which is more likely to rise upto $2trillion

U.S. press did not cover the war fairly

Govt. claimed that media was overly negative.

U.S intelligence had evidence that discovery ofweapons of mass destruction in Iraq was not true

Bush decided to withdraw all 5 surge brigades by July2008.

Bush failed to indicate what an interim partial successor an interim failure would look like.


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