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The '''Iraq War''' was a protracted armed conflict that began in 2003 with the invasion of [[Iraq]] by a [[United States]]-led coalition with [[Great Britain]] that overthrew the internationally-recognised government headed by President [[Saddam Hussein]]. Eventually numerous other [[NATO]] countries also provided military units. The conflict continued as an insurgency emerged to oppose the occupying forces and the post-invasion puppet Iraqi government.

USA troops were officially withdrawn in 2011. However, following the spread of the [[Syrian Civil War]] (with the insurgency there supported by the United States via their proxies, such as [[Saudi Arabia]]) and the territorial gains of the [[Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant]], US forces were again sent to Iraq in 2014. Iraq captured ISIL's last major strongholds in 2017 and declared the war over, but a lower-scale insurgency continues.

==Claimed causes==
The start of the conflict is associated with the aftermath of the earlier First [[Gulf War]] (1991), the [[9/11 attacks]] (2001), and Israeli and USA manufactured claims of Iraq holding weapons of mass destruction (WMD). However, there was no co-operation between Saddam Hussein and the al-Qaeda terrorist group, and UN Weapons experts who went to Iraq stated they did not have weapons of mass destruction.<ref>https://www.un.org/press/en/2003/sc7777.doc.htm</ref> It has been argued that Western intelligence agencies before the war knew this and/or had no reliable evidence.

Another claimed motivation for the invasion was to spread [[democracy]] and the [[democratic peace theory]], so beloved by the USA.

Some critics (such as [[Noam Chomsky]]) have argued that the war was an "[[oil war]]". However, this has also been criticized as a smokescreen or only a partial cause. The war has not been financially beneficial for the United States but has instead been enormously costly (see below).

The influence of the [[Israel lobby]] and [[neoconservatives]] have often been argued to be a major cause, in for example ''[[The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy]]'', but sources such as [[Wikipedia]] state nothing on this in its articles on Iraq War.

== Results ==
Some of the current results of the war include that
*A relatively stable and secular country that was hostile to Israel has been devastated and greatly weakened.
*The war, civil war, terrorism, and other war associated effects causing large scale combat casualties, mass killings/deaths of civilians, and other atrocities
*Enormous financial costs.
*Increased tensions between [[NATO]] and [[Russia]].
*Increased tensions between Shia and Sunni Muslims and Shia and Sunni majority countries.
*Rising religious fundamentalism and terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere.
*A [[mass migration]] with individuals claiming to be "[[refugees]]" from the war arriving mainly in Europe.
*Terrorists from the war arriving mainly in Europe.

These results are often similar to those from other recent wars in Muslim countries with outside interventions.

Estimates regarding some of the costs for only the first ten years of war and civil war, before the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, have included:
*189,000 direct war deaths.
*More than a half a million deaths from war related causes (including from violence but also from causes such as destroyed infrastructure due to the war).
*Many more physically and psychologically injured and maimed.
*4,488 U.S.A. service personnel killed directly and 32,223 injured (not including psychological injuries such as PTSD).
*A financial cost for the US alone of $1.7 trillion.<ref>The Staggering Cost Of The Last Decade's US War In Iraq — In Numbers http://www.businessinsider.com/the-iraq-war-by-numbers-2014-6</ref><ref>Iraq war costs U.S. more than $2 trillion: study http://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-war-anniversary-idUSBRE92D0PG20130314</ref> The wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan have been estimated to cost the US alone $4 trillion.
*Many trillions more in cost for the U.S.A. alone on interest payments due to the wars being paid for by borrowed money. The cost of the Iraq war alone for the U.S.A. could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest.

These estimates were only for some of the costs for the time period before the recent large increase in fighting and violence associated with [[ISIS]].

==See also==
*[[A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm]]
*[[Civil war]] - on "regime changes", democracy, and civil wars
*[[Libya]]
*[[Syrian Civil War]]

== External links ==
*[http://www.ihr.org/leaflets/iraqwar.shtml Iraq, A War for Israel]
*[http://mailstar.net/iraq-war.html The Iraq War]
*[https://www.iraqbodycount.org/ Iraq Body Count]

==References==
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