What events started the war with iraq?

The election of George W. Bush to the office of President of the United States.

This has been in his plans since he decided to run for office.

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The first one in the early 90's started when Iraq invaded Kuwait and the coalition including the US threw them back without taking over Bagdad. This one started when an Iraqi defector falsely informed the US intelligence that Iraq contained WMD's in stockpiles and the intel guys swallowed it hook, line and sinker.
Pulling out of Vietnam, and Jimmy Carter's failure to destroy the militant islamofascists in Iran in 1980. That is what led the islamofascists to believe we were a weak people. Had we taken care of business then when we had an excuse, the history of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan would have been much different, there would have likely been no Iraq/Iran war, so saddam would likely have been deposed by his own people (he used the war to rally them to his cause). Bin Laden would likely still be suckin slurpies in a Saudi palace. 9-11 would not have happened. And Islamofascism would not be the force it is today. So THANK YOU JIMMY CARTER. $hithead. worst president in history.
Actually, the war with Iraq is a hold over from the first Gulf War. In 1990, Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. The US military and a coalition went in and forced the Iraqi army to retreat back to Baghdad but they did not finish the job. A sort of cease fire quickly followed but the US essentially occupied Iraq from the air for the next 12 years (until 2003). In that time, the UN passed a number of resolutions against Hussein's government but really did not do anything to him. One can argue over George Bush's motivations, but basically, the US demanded that the UN enforce it's own sanctions. They did not, so the US took it upon itself and gave Iraq a deadline to conform to the UN resolutions. When the deadline passed and Iraq did nothing, we put forces back on the ground and marched in, this time all the way to Baghdad, taking down Hussein and his Baathist government.

Those are the events that got us to this point. The wisdom of taking out Hussein, trying to install a democracy, and dismantling Iraq's military forces can and probably will be debated for a long time to come. By the way, in dollar amount, it is not costing us a lot more to occupy Iraq the way we currently are when compared to the aerial occupation we ran for the twelve years between Gulf Wars.
The 2003 invasion of Iraq by a multinational force officially began on March 20, 2003. U.S. President George W. Bush stated that the objective of the invasion was "to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein's support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people".

Prior to the invasion, the United States' official position was that Iraq was in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1441 regarding weapons of mass destruction and had to be disarmed by force. The United Kingdom and United States attempted to get a U.N. Security Council resolution authorizing military force, but withdrew it before it could come to a vote after France, Russia, and later China all signaled that they would use their Security Council veto power against any resolution that would include an ultimatum allowing the use of force against Iraq. On March 20, 2003, the invasion of Iraq began.

The Iraqi military was defeated, and Baghdad fell on April 9, 2003 at 11:16 a.m. On May 1, 2003, U.S. President Bush declared the end of major combat operations, terminating the Baath Party's rule and removing Iraqi President Saddam Hussein from office. Coalition forces ultimately captured Saddam Hussein on December 13, 2003.

Captured by U.S. forces on December 13, 2003, Saddam was brought to trial under the Iraqi interim government set up by U.S.-led forces. On November 5, 2006, he was convicted of charges related to the executions of 148 Iraqi Shi'ites suspected of planning an assassination attempt against him, and was sentenced to death by hanging. Saddam was executed on December 30, 2006.