[Wildcatk23]

the only thing i can remember bush doing was going to war with iraq when afghanistan took down the trade centers.

1. The Iraq War that began on March 20, 2003 is also known as the Second Gulf War. Today, Iraq is occupied by multinational forces for more than six years.

2. The vast majority of multinational forces is composed of American and British troops.

3. Prior to the Iraq War, American intelligence had been claiming that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. This deceitful information was the casus belli for the occupation of Iraq.

4. Some officials of America accused Saddam Hussein of collaborating with Al-Qaeda, but no evidence of any relations between them was ever found.

5. Some experts claim that America occupied Iraq due to its oil reserves.

6. The number of Iraq citizens killed since the beginning of the war ranges between 850,000 and one million civilians.

7. According to United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, for the first five years of the occupation an estimated number of 4.7 million Iraqis were uprooted. In recent years, almost two million citizens of Iraq have fled the country. Most of the refugees live in Jordan and Syria.

8. In late February of 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama announced that US forces will leave Iraq in 18 months. Only some 30 to 50 thousand American troops will remain and train Iraqi security forces.

9. More than 4000 American soldiers were killed since the beginning of the Iraq War.

10. More than 845 billion dollars were spent by US government for the Iraq War.