Background
In 2000, Supreme Court solved the problems in
elections including serious disputes over recounts in Florida and George W.
Bush was named the President of United States. The recounting of votes was
done by machine as well as manually, with George Bush leading after each
recount. The U.S. Supreme Court ordered the Supreme Court of Florida to end
the recounts after it was discovered that Bush was leading in every recount.
With the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001 on
America a new image of Bush as "warrior president” came in front of the
world. He started a war against terrorism, and with British forces he
attacked Afghanistan which was allegedly hiding Osama bin Laden, the
architect of 9/11 attacks. By the end of the year, the Taliban was defeated
and first democratic elections were held in Afghanistan.
The next target of U.S. was Iraq. The Bush
administration stated that removal of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was
becoming necessary because according to U.S. Saddam's government had tried
to obtain nuclear weapons and had not properly accounted for the possession
of biological and chemical weapons, weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
violating the U.N. sanctions. U.S. failed to find abovementioned weapons in
Iraq and also failed to prove Al-Qaeda/Saddam Hussein connection. These
circumstances were so intensified that U.S. called together other nations,
including the United Kingdom, Spain, Italy, and Poland to attack Iraq and
dethrone Saddam Hussein. This grouping of nations was termed as “coalition
of the willing” by the Bush Administration.
Attack on Iraq began on March 20, 2003. And
in just three weeks these coalition forces defeated the military of Iraq and
forced the Iraqi government to surrender. The oil program of Iraq was
quickly undertaken with partial damage. The U.S president, then flown to
Iraq on the 1st of May, where he declared the operation a success.
But the actions of U.S. president were highly condemned as they failed to
locate the alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
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