USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF), the U.S.-led coalition military operation in Iraq, was launched on March 20, 2003, with the immediate stated goal of removing Saddam Hussein’s regime and destroying its ability to use weapons of mass destruction or to make them available to terrorists.

Detailed explanation-2: -See nuclear weapon, chemical warfare, biological warfare. (Read Britannica’s interview with Jimmy Carter on WMD’s and world affairs.) The term weapons of mass destruction has been in currency since at least 1937, when it was used to describe massed formations of bomber aircraft.

Detailed explanation-3: -Operation IRAQI FREEDOM (OIF) was launched on March 19, 2003, to rid Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction, to eliminate Saddam Hussein’s regime, and to replace it with a democracy supported by the people of Iraq.

Detailed explanation-4: -Operation Iraqi Freedom was launched by US to prevent Iraq from developing Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).

Detailed explanation-5: -After the attacks on September 11, 2001, and the overthrow of the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, the United States Government turned its attention to Iraq and the regime of Saddam Hussein.