Iraq War 2003 Explained | Why Bush and Blair attacked Saddam Hussein

What prompted the Iraq War in 2003? The easy reply is 9/11.

In this episode of IWM Stories, Chris Cooper explores the timeline of occasions that led from the 9/11 terror assaults to US President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair invading Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. From Saddam’s use of chemical and organic weapons through the Iran-Iraq War to the First Gulf War in 1991 and from the 9/11 terror assaults to UN weapons inspections the Iraq War has a protracted and difficult historical past that goes far past oil and weapons of mass destruction.

Find out extra concerning the Iraq War: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/the-important-facts-about-the-iraq-war

Find out extra concerning the First Gulf War: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-the-gulf-war

Find out extra about Britain’s position in Afghanistan: https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-the-british-role-in-afghanistan

Order and license the HD clips used on this video on IWM Film’s web site:
https://film.iwmcollections.org.uk/c/1185

Explore these tales with a go to to an IWM website: https://www.iwm.org.uk

0:00 Introduction
1:10 9/11
3:18 Saddam Hussein
4:53 UK Involvement
6:11 Intelligence Failures
7:53 War

Follow IWM on social media:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/I_W_M​
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/imperialwarmuseums
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iwm.london

Creative Commons Attribution:

Osama bin Laden portrait by Hamid Mir // CC BY-SA 3.0 – https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en

source