Iraq disarmament crisis
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In the Iraq disarmament crisis of the early 2000s, Iraq, led by president Saddam Hussein, was pressured by the United States and its other adversaries to destroy alleged stockpiles of weapons of mass
A UN weapons inspector in Iraq in November 2002
A diagram of Iraq's alleged mobile weapons laboratories, as presented to the United Nations by Colin Powell in 2003
Saddam Hussein in 1979
The Tuwaitha Nuclear Research Facility in Baghdad on 10 March 1991, after it was bombed by the U.S. in the Gulf War
Rationale for the Iraq War
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There are various rationales that have been used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Iraq War, and subsequent hostilities.
US secretary of state Colin Powell holding a model vial of anthrax while giving the presentation to the United Nations Security Council on 5 February 2003
President George Bush, surrounded by leaders of the House and Senate, announces the Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of United States Armed Forces Against Iraq, 2 October 2002