IRAQ WAR

Why USA went

• 9-11 attacks started a war on Terror

• Free the citizens of Iraq from Saddam Hussein

Why USA went (cont.)

• Iraq was suspected of weapon trading with Al-Qaida and thought to have weapons of Mass Destruction

Declaration of War

• October 11th 2002– Majority rules and the

Senate votes ‘Yea’ for an Iraqi invasion

• March 19th , 2003 – President Bush

declares war on Iraq

Alliances and Enemies

Operation Iraqi Freedom

• ‘Decapitation attack’– Capture Saddam

Hussein and other Iraqi leaders

• Two waves of air strikes hit Baghdad

• Troops march from Kuwait to Baghdad

Operation Iraqi Freedom (cont.)

• About 1,000 paratroopers land in Northern Iraq to squish Iraqi Resistance Forces

• American tanks roll into Baghdad and inflict heavy Iraqi casualties

• April 9th, 2003– Baghdad falls– Still sporadic fighting

throughout the city

Weapons Used

• M-9 Handgun – Powerful sidearm

• M16A2 Rifle – 3 round burst or single

shot

Tanks & Missiles

• Tomahawk Cruise Missile – Gets coordinates to

attack target with heavy power

• M1 Abrams – Highly mobile– Heavily armored

Airplanes

• F-22 nicknamed the Raptor– Can fly up to Mach

2.42 (1,600 mph) – Can out maneuver any

other jet in a dogfight

More Airplanes

• F-15 aka the Eagle– Fly Mach 2.5– Perform air-air as well

as air to ground missions

• Hussein fled• Couldn’t find him or

the weapons of mass destruction

“They got him”

• December 14, 2003 Saddam Hussein captured

Saddam Hussein

• He was tried for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide

• The Coalition Provisional Authority voted to create the Iraqi Special Tribune (IST), consisting of five Iraqi judges

Verdict

• Sentence to death by hanging

• Saddam shouted, “Long live the people. Long live the Arab nation. Down with the spies.”

Difficulty

• Insurgents keep fighting American and Iraqi soldiers

• New posted Government officials keep getting assassinated

New misson

• Establish a democracy– Government– Police– Army

Casualtiesas of May 2th, 2013

• American casualties– Wounded around

31,927– Dead around 4486

• Iraqi/Insurgents casualties estimated– Death around 28,821

to 37,405

Economy of the war

• From the start of the war to this year the war has cost over a trillion dollars

• It has paid for transportation, weapons, medical supplies, food, salaries of the soldiers, etc...

America at home

• At first it was very supported

• As it dragged people starting questioning why we were there

IMAGES OF THE WAR

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