ush decided to deploy military force, uphold democracy in the Middle East. Bush offered liberal wartime powers to the commander in chief. Critics of Bush, however, questioned the usefulness of ‘war on terror’.
Same is the case with the Iraq invasion under the United States and the coalition of 49 countries that started in March 20, 2003. The Iraq war, also called, Occupation of Iraq, the Second Gulf War, or Operation Iraqi Freedom by the US military, was alleged on the grounds of various accusations against Iraq.
Iraq is located in the western part of Asia and it shares a border with Jordan, Iran Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Syria. It has a small coastline of 58 kilometres. Baghdad is the countries largest city and it plays the role of being its capital city with a population of 30,399,572. The other large cities of Iraq include Basra, Mosul, Kirkuk and Irbil.
The UN charter stipulates clearly the procedures that should be followed by a country to perpetrate coercion or violence to another state. The UN charter is the only legitimate basis that a country can use to attack another sovereign state since it has been reached through consensus by the member states forming the United Nations.
Up to date neither the United Nations nor the US- led forces have found any weapons of mass destruction. Thus, Iraq became the forefront of political debate and controversy. The Iraqi conflict can be argued upon many dimensions, but for the purpose of this study, paradigms, or basic frameworks, of International Relations will be reviewed and analyzed.
and terrorist groups(Talbott and Chanda,2001;Chomsky,2002;Wolin,2002).The United States foreign policy could no longer simply address state actors and disregard non state actors; it could no longer support , or turn a blind eyes towards , oppressive, authoritarian and
In 1914, the British army invaded Mesopotamia, and established military order during the First World War. The subjugation of present day Iraq was not the initial intent of the British, rather their primary objective was the security of the British military position in the Persian Gulf.
As Iraq represented the cradle of civilization to the ancient world, it has represented the cradle of conflict in the post – Cold war world. For many people born in the peaceful countries of the west or in the troubles states of Near East at the end of the 20th century, Iraq was their formative experience of war in the modern world