Regular Rep: 5  Joined: 14 Dec 2007 Posts: 578 OFFLINE | This is my opening Paragraphs to the Second Gulf War as part of our choice assignment for Society and Environment. Is it accurate? Does it make sense? If you didn’t know a thing about the S.G.W. before this did you learn anything?
The Second Gulf War
The Second Gulf War, one of the most recent and horrific events witnessed by the forces of the U.S., U.K., Iraq and many other countries involved. In hindsight it may have well as been classified as the Third World War. It had all the statistics and media of a World War, but was not considered one. Countries from across the globe were drawn into this, U.S., U.K., Australia, Poland and other large and ferocious forces. It was a war for apparent ‘Peace’ between these countries and Iraq, but in the end it was just yet another conflict to demonstrate each other’s power, to take something or to prevent something they thought was too powerful to obtain. The biggest prize however, in this case, was to eliminate the man leading the country of Iraq, the man who cost thousands upon millions of lives, Saddam Hussein, the man that the rest of the world saw unworthy of the privilege of life.
Instead of being a separate war in itself, the Second Gulf War, also known as the Iraq War by most, was a continuation of the First Gulf War (Persian Gulf War). By the U.S. it was known as Operation Iraqi Freedom, by the U.K., Operation TELIC and by anybody else who contributed it was known as the occupation of Iraq. This ongoing conflict began on March 20th, 2003, which consisted of many contributing countries of a United States led coalition and invasion of Iraq along with other major forces of the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland, although Poland had not improved its army very greatly since the Blitzkrieg invasion by Germany that sparked the Second World War. It was in the belief of the United Stated that Iraq had still possessed its alleged weapons of mass destruction or WMD for short, and that they posed an imminent and dangerous threat to the U.S., its people, allies and interests. In response to this, the United States sent in weapon inspectors to locate any possible trace of WMD, but they ceased to find any evidence of active WMD. But instead, they found remaining, remnants of misplaced or abandoned WMD that had not necessarily consisted of the same material of WMD or of the Iraqi survey group. They were not for which the coalition invaded.
The Iraqi Survey Group had stated that they had ended their WMD programs in 1991 nor did they obtain any during the invasion, but threatened to continue their production if the Iraqi sanctions were lifted.
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