Why did the war in Iraq start under Bush?
President George W. Bush was a war hawk that overreacted to perceived threats after 9/11. The popular conservative sentiment after September 11th was that we had ignored the region too long and it bit us, and the solution was nation building in the area with force if necessary.
The Short Answer
President George W. Bush was a war hawk that overreacted to perceived threats after 9/11. The popular conservative sentiment after September 11th was that we had ignored the region too long and it bit us, and the solution was nation building in the area with force if necessary. The grounds for war with Iraq were *extremely* shaky and ultimately proven false, but it was done for ideological reasons to attempt to 'fix' one of the important yet festering regions of the Middle East after we (the world, really) let it stagnate for a decade and a half following Desert Storm in the 90's. That strategy was a spectacular failure because it over-estimated the effectiveness and how welcome the US military would be in a totally foreign urban environment, and under-estimated the cost of reconstruction and infrastructure required. So now, we're back to black ops and smarter diplomacy.
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