Abstract
This essay is a mock Presidential address designed to highlight the long-term consequences of the US occupation of Iraq.
Highlights
Bush Administration made the decision to target Iraq as part of the neverending war on terror in 2003, it was apparent that this intervention was no different from our long history of military interventions and occupations from the Spanish-American War to the present
We can nitpick about how Democrats preferred a steady strangulation of Iraq with sanctions and selective bombing missions versus the Bush Administration’s cowboy approach, but once we as a country committed to invasion and occupation, it was with the cooperation of both political parties
In Iraq, we devised this cute-sounding Coalition Provisional Authority to govern the country, and it was our man Paul Bremer who was calling the shots for the entire country during most of the first two years of the occupation
Summary
Bush Administration made the decision to target Iraq as part of the neverending war on terror in 2003, it was apparent that this intervention was no different from our long history of military interventions and occupations from the Spanish-American War to the present. We abruptly rewrote the Iraqi constitution during the early stages of the occupation, another violation of international law.
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