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US-Iraq War: History and Aftermath

The US and Iraq war ended through a withdrawal of US troops from Iraq as mandated by President Obama. While the initial 2003 US invasion caused huge suffering in Iraq, the US claimed it was due to Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction and allying with terrorist groups, which were later found to be false claims. An agreement was signed in 2008 between the US and Iraq setting a timeline for US troop withdrawal, with all combat troops leaving Iraq by December 2011. After the withdrawal, Iraq continued working to stabilize itself with help from the UN and others, though the country had been greatly impacted by years of conflict and sanctions.

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US-Iraq War: History and Aftermath

The US and Iraq war ended through a withdrawal of US troops from Iraq as mandated by President Obama. While the initial 2003 US invasion caused huge suffering in Iraq, the US claimed it was due to Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction and allying with terrorist groups, which were later found to be false claims. An agreement was signed in 2008 between the US and Iraq setting a timeline for US troop withdrawal, with all combat troops leaving Iraq by December 2011. After the withdrawal, Iraq continued working to stabilize itself with help from the UN and others, though the country had been greatly impacted by years of conflict and sanctions.

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SUASIN, KRISHA MARIJOULE T.

BS FOREIGN AFFAIRS- IV

The US and Iraq war: ENDED

The war on United States and Iraq is very important to be contextualized, and in order to
contextualize it we need to go back to its history. Before the war of both states, in the 70s and 80s,
Iraq had close ties with the western side of the world. However, when Iraq invaded its neighbor in
1991, Kuwait a coalition of nation declared war on Iraq to restore Kuwait’s Independence. A shift
in the relations of US and Iraq happened, Saddam Hussein became the villain followed by 13 years
of economic sanctions. These sanctions resulted to major consequences on Iraqi society. It greatly
affected the people, resulting to death, illness, hunger. Many academic scholars see the sanctions
as a way of the United States to attain the consent of the people, their suffering was their way of
guaranteeing the acceptance of a new occupation.

About the decade later, The West believed that Iraq was creating Weapons of Mass
Destruction and Hussein’s connections with the militant and terrorist groups. There are also
economic reasons such as the abundance of oil in Iraq, the US needed to have dominance over
areas with this kind of resources.

The effects of the American invasion in 2003 had huge effect to the Iraqi people. Most of
the people suffered. Iraqi people were leaving the country resulting to destruction of their society.
There was also internal displacement since Iraq is a divided country. But the problem was, Iraqi
people did not gain sympathy over other states especially the American public. They either don’t
understand how big the problem was or they were simply misinformed because of the script that
America is telling the media. Bottomline is, what we know today, the creation of WMDs and
alliance with militant and terrorist groups was a false claim.

There was an agreement between the two states which was called the US-Iraq Status of
Forces Agreement, this was signed by President George W. Bush in 2008. This states that the US
troops would withdraw from Iraqi cities by June 30, 2009 and all US combat forces will be
completely out of Iraq by December 31, 2011.

As the new president Barack Obama was elected in 2008, shortly after his inauguration, he
announced the drawdown from Iraq. This culminated the last troops leaving in December of 2011.
The US occupation in Iraq ended through the winding down of United States involvement in
Iraq, mandated by President Barack Obama. The US troops formally withdrew in a
ceremony in Baghdad, all combat troops were prepared to leave Iraq in December 15, 2011.

On December 2017, Iraqi military declared the country “fully liberated” with the help of
American troops from terrorist group, ISIS which invaded Iraq after the withdrawal of the US
military. Also, there were sectarian tensions, Iraq has become more stable since the defeat of the
ISIS.

It was demoralizing when Iraq was disempowered, it affected the whole region and it took
them a very long time to recover. However, today, Iraq is slowly getting back and rebuilding their
home with the help of the United Nations and organizations involved.

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