The war against terrorism

The war on terrorism startsThe war on terrorism starts• On September 11th 2001 the world trade

center buildings were attacked by two jet airline planes that were hijacked by al-Qaeda terrorists led by Osama bin Laden.

• Shortly after that the Pentagon was hit by a airplane also taken over by al-Qaeda terrorists killing 189 people.

• The total death toll on the of United States citizens was 2,976 people including 19 hijackers.

• Also over 6,000 injuries.

• The first invasion was into Afghanistan on October 7th 2001• The stated aim of the invasion was to find Osama bin Laden

and other high-ranking Al-Qaeda members and put them on trial, to destroy the whole organization of Al-Qaeda.

• Then on March 20th, 2003 we invaded Iraq with thoughts that Saddam Hussein and his Ba’th party had weapons of mass destruction that he was going to use on the United States.

• When the U.S troops arrived Iraq’s economy was totally corrupt and there were mass amounts of looting happening everywhere.

• The U.S troops let this looting happen and only protected oil fields and now hundreds of thousands of Iraqi people are dead and the country is in serious trouble.

Entry Into War

Iraq's government• Iraq was under Baath Party rule from 1968 to 2003; in 1979 Saddam

Hussein took control and remained president until 2003 after which he was unseated by a US invasion.

• The Iraq-based Ba'ath Party had branches in various Arab countries, such as Lebanon, Mauritania and Jordan. After the fall of the Saddam government, some branches have distanced themselves from the central party.

• The Ba'ath party inflicted terror and intimidation on the citizens of Iraq. People were raped, murdered, tortured, imprisoned and intimidated for holding beliefs that were inconsistent with the beliefs of the party.

• On January 30, 2005, Iraqis elected a 275-member transitional National Assembly that replaced the US-installed Interim Government.

Iraq's Death Toll During The War

• 92,489 – 100,971 violent civilian deaths as a result of the war.

Cost of the War

• Since the start of the war in Iraq the United States has spent over $701 billion dollars.

• WOW

What surprised me the most about the movie

• Since The United States invaded Iraq in march of 2003 there has been over 100,00 Iraqi deaths.

• The United States has had 4,279 deaths and over 30,000 wounded.

• With all the deaths we have still not fixed there corrupt government system.

• Wit hall the Iraq terrorists attacking us the American Government persuaded us not to shoot back at the Iraqis to make sure we were not killing innocent people.

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