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War in Iraq The Iraq War began on March 19, 2003, when the United States, Great Brit- ain, and several other countries bombed Iraq in an attempt to oust its bru- tal dictator, Saddam Hussein, from power. For months, President George W. Bush and others worked hard to convince the world that Hussein was a threat to countries in the Middle East and the West. Bush and his operatives claimed—wrongly, it would turn out—that Hussein was secretly producing and stockpiling chemical and biological weapons—so-called weapons of mass destruction, or WMDs.

Secretary of State Colin Powell appears before the United Nations to press the case for an attack on Iraq.

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