Invasion of Iraq & the Bush Administration Fru

The Bush Administration and the Invasion of Iraq

Few political issues are more hotly debated today than the question of whether or not the Bush Administration was right to invade Iraq when and how it did. Evan Thomas (2003) noted that media elites and pundits, politicians from both major American political parties, and foreign heads of government have all charged that George W. Bush has failed to give a compelling or even adequate reason to rush into war with Iraq. The much-discussed "weapons of mass destruction" said to be possessed by Iraq and Saddam Hussein have failed to materialize; having "won the war" with exemplary speed and limited loss of American and Allied troops, winning the "peace" has proven to be more difficult than was anticipated (Thomas, 2003). Simultaneously, there are those critics of President Bush who believe that the war and the ensuing peace is far too costly for an America with domestic economic issues of her own, and that American strategies for securing Iraq for a new democratic regime have been insufficiently inclusive of other world powers (Thomas, 2003).

However, despite these criticism, the Bush Administration has undertaken in invading and restructuring Iraq a necessary if difficult and costly task. That task is multifaceted. On the one hand, President Bush has moved to eliminate the threat to regional and global peace posed by a dictator and his brutal, inhumane, and genocidal regime. On the other hand, President

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rld and not merely or necessarily even primarily to the United States. Allowing a terrorist state to use such resources as a geopolitical weapon is not in the best interests of the world. The United States and those of her allies that have recognized the threat posed by a rogue state headed by a brutal dictator who condones rape and mutilation as a means of silencing his enemies justifiably responded with their strategy to oust the Saddam Hussein regime. Suzanne McCabe (2003) maintained that when President Bush asked Congress to pass a resolution approving the use of military force in Iraq if diplomatic efforts failed he received bipartisan support with few dissenting voices. A number of months passed during which both the United States and the United Nations, and countries friendly to Iraq attempted to convince Saddam Hussein to comply with United Nations mandates. In the period between the passage of UN Security Council Resolution 1441 on November 8, 2002 and the invasion of Iraq in mid-March 2003, efforts to bring Saddam Hussein to the negotiating table took place and failed. Even Hans Blix, chief UN weapons inspector, expressed disappointment to the Iraqi response to UN disarmament requirements. The French,

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