THE WAR AND TERRORISM

Running head: WAR AND TERRORISM 1
War and Terrorism
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Author’s Note

WAR AND TERRORISM 2
War and Terrorism
The United States invasion of Iraq brings out the aim of the U.S. to help the Middle East
come out of the Iraqi Saddam Hussein. This invasion of Iraq occurred under the regime of Bush
in a grand strategy of the United States-led coalition to counter-attack against the Islamic
terrorist group al-Qaida in September 2001. Because of this, they wanted to overthrow the
Saddam’s government (Abdel-Razek & Puttick, 2016). Due to the invasion of the U.S., Iraq
became a victim of chaos that led to several deaths of majorly the civilians. There was
insurgency over the entire Iraq that resulted to a lot of destructions. During the period of the
invasion of Iraq, the U.S. administration made several mistakes that led them to lose the battle.
Some of these mistakes were not have been made in the first place. Some of these mistakes
include; firstly, the decision to go to the war was made out of fault intelligence (Al-Ali & Pratt,
2016). The U.S. and the entire administration made a rush decision without thorough diplomacy
being put in place to confirm that the condition of Iraq was as they have had. So many
assumptions were involved in the intelligence works and much more in the planning and setting
of the strategies.
Secondly, the announcement by the U.S. administration about the failure of their
diplomacy and calling for the coalition of the willing was not appropriate. Several states may
have taken this call lightly following the U.S. mindset that every state which is not with them in
the war against terror as being against them. To Saddam’s Iraqi army, it appeared as inferiority,
and this gave them much courage to be ready even to handle the U.N (Doeser & Eidenfalk,
2016).
On the third point, it was vivid to many that there could be an eruption of chaos in the
case that Saddam's iron grip was removed. With all the clarity, the U.S. administration still goes