WELD 174AB Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Anti-Ballistic Missile, Bush Doctrine, Al-Qaeda
18 Aug 2020
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Bush administration singled out iraq accused saddam hussein of harboring. Un sanctioned, so the case had to rest on the fact that saddam was clearly. 2002 guilty of ignoring the unsc resolutions on wmd failed to obtain un authorization to use force bc influential countries were skeptical of american claims. Troops began arriving in iraq 200,000 by mid-march. Powell made effort to persuade unsc that authorization for disarming iraq (aka invasion) was necessary evidence presented was mostly discredited. Withdrew un resolution, prepared for invasion anyways american-led attack on iraq operation iraqi freedom" underway. Backfire: iraq, afghanistan and the war on terror; Continue to claim over the next few year they made a good call and were headed in the right direction liberation and eventually democracy (important because it was discovered the whole wmd thing was a lie, no. Wmd found so they had to rely on democracy justification) Initially, did appear to be progress in democratization.
