Why Bush Invaded Iraq

On March 19, 2003, 160,000 troops invaded Iraq on the orders of President George W Bush, which resulted in eight years of war, insurgency, and violence. An evil dictator was removed from power and Iraq became a struggling democracy, but in the process: Iraqi order and infrastructure were damaged, local terrorism flourished as terrorists flocked to the scene to defeat America and used the invasion as anti-American propaganda, Iraq fell into deadly civil strife, Iran’s power grew, over 4,700 U.S. and allied troops were killed, more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians lost their lives, and in time, former Iraqi military and al…