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=2003 EVENTS=

This war started with an invasion in Iraq. The reason was that the U.S.A. was suspicious of Iraqi's hiding WMD (weapons of mass distruction). Bush launched this invasion on March 19 2003. The weapons were found only 11 days later, on March 30, 2003 in the Tikrit and Bagdad area.
 * **WMD Search** (March 19- March 30)

After the WMD's were recovered, Bush signed a supplemental spending bill (of 1.7 billion dollars) for Iraqi Rebuilding. Riots were happening all over Iraq. Click [|here] to see the conversation between [|Andrew Natsios] and Ted Koppel revealing the plans for the rebuilding.
 * **Clean Up** (April 17)

Saddam Hussien's sons (Uday and Qusay) were found dead after a raid.Things seemed to be going fine until that point. Click [|here] for an news article with more details.
 * **Death of Uday and Qusay** (July 22)

The next month was the first real combat month of the war. On August 7th, there was a "massive car bomb" in Iraq outside the Jordinian Embassy at about 11:00 A..M. This startled many people and let to fears of [|Guerilla fighters] are becoming involved attacking so called "soft targets". Eleven people were killed in this attack, while 30 people were injured by shockwaves. Click [|here] to get the details
 * **Attacks** (August)

Only 13 days after the the bomb went off near the Jordinian Embassy, a U.N. (United Nations) representative ([|Sergio Vieira de Mello]) and at least 16 others were killed when a bomb exploded near the Bagdad headquarter of the U.N. At his point of the war, some U.S. officials believed that the war was changing. It was beginning to become [|Terrorist]. Some also believe that the terrorists are the [|al Qaeda] group. Click [|here] for the full story.

At this point, people began to doubt whether or not Bush planned this invasion properly. Some say that the invasion was planned so late, it was "impossible to for U.S. Central Command to carry out the mission effectively". [|Here] are the details.
 * **Views on Bush**