HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Remove Saddam Hussein from power
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Find weapons of mass destruction
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Help create a democratic government in Iraq
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Protect Turkey from Kurdish military
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Detailed explanation-1: -U.S. President George W. Bush argued that the vulnerability of the United States following the September 11 attacks of 2001, combined with Iraq’s alleged continued possession and manufacture of weapons of mass destruction and its support for terrorist groups, including al-Qaeda, justified the U.S.’s war with Iraq.
Detailed explanation-2: -Reasons for opposition Critics of the invasion claimed that it would lead collateral damage to deaths of thousands of Iraqi civilians and soldiers as well as Coalition soldiers, and that it would moreover damage peace and stability throughout the region and the world.
Detailed explanation-3: -The invasion’s purpose, per Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, was to blunt the edge of Iranian Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini’s movement and thwart his attempts to export Iran’s Islamic Revolution to Saddam’s secular Iraq and the Persian Gulf states.