Causes
Cause 1: Iraq refused to cooperate with United Nations weapons inspections.
Cause 2: Iraq was angered by the result of the first Gulf War.
Cause 3: A continuation of the first Gulf War
Cause 4: The newly appointed president George W. Bush had a rivalry against Saddam Hussein
Cause 5: George W. Bush had suspicions of Iraq housing weapons of mass destruction.
Cause 6: President Bush had suspicions of links Saddam Hussein and terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda.
Cause 7: The government was the one who preferred having Saddam Hussein removed of his rule after the first Gulf War.
Cause 8: The new government plan to pre-emptively attack any threat against national security.
Cause 9: The accusation of Iraq not abiding to the 1991 cease-fire.
Cause 10: Saddam’s Hussein’s tyrannic rule of Iraq suppressing all oppositional uprisings from the minority Kurds and majority Shi’ite tribes.
Cause 11: Mutual rivalry.
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Cause 2: Iraq was angered by the result of the first Gulf War.
Cause 3: A continuation of the first Gulf War
Cause 4: The newly appointed president George W. Bush had a rivalry against Saddam Hussein
Cause 5: George W. Bush had suspicions of Iraq housing weapons of mass destruction.
Cause 6: President Bush had suspicions of links Saddam Hussein and terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda.
Cause 7: The government was the one who preferred having Saddam Hussein removed of his rule after the first Gulf War.
Cause 8: The new government plan to pre-emptively attack any threat against national security.
Cause 9: The accusation of Iraq not abiding to the 1991 cease-fire.
Cause 10: Saddam’s Hussein’s tyrannic rule of Iraq suppressing all oppositional uprisings from the minority Kurds and majority Shi’ite tribes.
Cause 11: Mutual rivalry.
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