Because Osama bin Laden terrorized the US. We then got mad and attacked them.
Entirely fact-free. Osama was not in, or sponsored by, Iraq. We did not get mad at Iraq.
Saddam violated every UN sanction and resolution imposed on him after he abjectly surrendered to the US at the end of the Gulf War. War criminals who do not stay surrendered, get the war renewed. Those who brag that they have WMD get invaded and searched.
Iraq was attacked in 2003, during the initial phase of Operation Iraq Freedom, to remove Saddam from power. Since his removal, Iraq is no longer under attack from the US. The US is attempting to RESTORE law, order, and stability to the region. The US is at war with no "nation." Only criminals (Global War on Terrorism).
Congress approved the war because Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Also because of the terrorist groups in the Middle East attacking the US and UK
There was a concern that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
You don't even want to know the real reason.
The US is NOT at war with the Government of Iraq. The US/Coalition, is trying to establish/restore law, order, and stability to the nation. The US is at war with terrorists globally for attacking the USA on September 11, 2001. The terrorists attacked America first, and America has the right to defend itself.
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No; they did not think that there was any evidence of 'weapons of mass destruction' inside Iraq; which was the only reason for invading Iraq. As it turned out later, they were right.
The official reason that the president (George Bush) gave was that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, or nuclear weapons, that were potentially harmful to the USA. The unofficial reason was that America had had enough of Saddam Hussein and wanted him out of government.
Answer this question… To force terrorist groups to stop attacking Western targets using massive military force.
To force terrorist groups to stop attacking Western targets usingmassive military force.
The reason why Japan bombed us was because we cut off our metal shipment to them in fear of them attacking other countries
To prop up their slumping popularity with the US voting public.