Iraq War: 2003 Invasion of Iraq, Plame Affair, Casualties of the Iraq War, History of Iraq (2003-2011), War on Terror, Canada an

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 185. Chapters: 2003 invasion of Iraq, Plame affair, Casualties of the Iraq War, History of Iraq (2003-2011), War on Terror, Canada and Iraq War resisters, Academi, List of aviation shootdowns and accidents during the Iraq War, Iraq War troop surge of 2007, July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike, United States v. Libby, Haditha killings, DynCorp, Legality of the Iraq War, Fallujah during the Iraq War, Blackwater Baghdad shootings, List of British gallantry awards for the Iraq War, Civil war in Iraq, 2008 Abu Kamal raid. Excerpt: The Iraq War was an armed conflict in Iraq that consisted of two phases. The first was an invasion of Ba'athist Iraq by the United States and the United Kingdom, starting on 20 March 2003. It was followed by a longer phase of fighting, in which an insurgency emerged to oppose Coalition forces and the newly formed Iraqi government. The U.S. completed its withdrawal of military personnel in December 2011. However, the Iraqi insurgency continues and has caused thousands of fatalities. Prior to the war, the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom claimed that Iraq's alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) posed a threat to their security and that of their coalition/regional allies. In 2002, the United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 1441 which called for Iraq to completely cooperate with UN weapon inspectors to verify that Iraq was not in possession of WMD and cruise missiles. Prior to the attack, the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) found no evidence of WMD, but could not yet verify the accuracy of Iraq's declarations regarding what weapons it possessed, as their work was still unfinished. The leader of the inspectors Hans Blix estimated the time remaining for disarmament being verified through inspections to be "months." After investigation following the invasion, the U.S. led Iraq Survey Group concluded that Iraq had ended its nuclear, chemical and biological programs in 1991 and had no active programs at the time of the invasion, but that they intended to resume production if the Iraq sanctions were lifted. Although some degraded remnants of misplaced or abandoned chemical weapons from before 1991 were found, they were not the weapons which had been one of the main arguments for the invasion. Some U.S. officials also accused Iraqi President Saddam Hussein of harboring and supporting al-Qaeda, but no evidence of a meaningful connection was ever found. Other proclaimed reasons for th