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This is why there's footage in the 1980s of Donald Rumsfeld visiting Saddam and praising him for fighting Iran. Then when he stops doing what we want and gasses Kurds and invades Kuwait, we try to topple him leading to the rise of the new threats, Shia Iran+Iraq and ISIS.
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The BBC's security correspondent Gordon Corera seeks to find new answers to why the Iraq war happened, what it meant, and its legacy today. Listen at 13:45 BST each weekday or stream or...
Indeed, especially when the only source on the topic I could find states the following . U.S. planes also dropped about 200,000 leaflets warning civilians to stay in their homes and assuring them that the campaign was not against them, but against Saddam.
Mar 20, 2023 · 04:09 - Source: CNN. Stories worth watching 16 videos. A look back on the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War. 04:09. Bride's sister springs into action when snake interrupts wedding party. 01:33 ...
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In March 2003 US and coalition forces invaded Iraq. US forces withdrew in December 2008. Approximately 4,400 US troops were killed and 31,900 wounded during the initial invasion and the subsequent war. Estimates of Iraqi casualties vary widely, ranging from roughly 100,000 to more than half a million.
Mar 20, 2023 · After al-Qaeda's 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, President George W Bush's administration started making plans to invade Iraq.
