How it started

In 2002, the new president George W. Bush argued that the vulnerability of the United States following the September 11 attacks of 2001, combined with Iraq's alleged continued possession and manufacture of weapons of mass destruction and it's support for terrorist group the perpetrators of the September 11 attacks made disarming Iraq a renewed priority. The overall war of Iraq began in 2003 with the invasion by a United States-led coalition that overthrew the government of Saddam Hussein. This war begun because of Iraq's development of weapons of mass destruction. Americans were told by President Bush and his administration that the U.S. was going to war with Iraq because of the imminent threat that Iraq posed with the possessions of weapons of mass destruction.