POL310Y5 Lecture Notes - Coalition Provisional Authority, Iraqi Interim Government, Iraqi Police
7 Jun 2014
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Began in late 2007, full scale civil war 2005, 06, 07. Began to be some improvements, led to defeat of the republicans and the elections failing. Us troops surge and the ability to convince former insurgents to support the government turned the tide. Turn the tide, violence went down by 2007-08. The usa ended combat operations in iraq in dec 2011, obama ran on that he would end. Iraq but the agreement was by bush & iraqi. Violence, corruption, political gridlock still hamper iraq"s prospects, iraq has improved but lots of violence and blood shed. Iraq is better off than afghanistan today et. Those who join usa in the war; britain was biggest, tony. Blari same page, most other usa allies did not want to be a part of the war. eastern. Europe joined the coalition; other than us, uk just sent sent token forces; as a gesture in return usa would give them increase aid or certain things.
