Operation Iraqi Freedom

Examples of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the following topics:

• Iraq

  • Particularly since the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003, U.S. relations with Iraq have been central to its foreign policy.
  • The invasion, referred to as Operation Iraqi Freedom, led to an occupation and the eventual capture of President Hussein, who was later tried in an Iraqi court of law and executed by the new Iraqi government.
  • Violence against coalition forces and among various sectarian groups soon led to the Iraqi insurgency, strife between many Sunni and Shia Iraqi groups, and the emergence of a new faction of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
  • In late 2008, the U.S. and Iraqi governments approved a Status of Forces Agreement, effective through January 1, 2012.
  • The last U.S. troops left Iraqi territory on December 18, 2011.

• The War on Terror

  • Following the bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, President Bill Clinton launched Operation Infinite Reach, a bombing campaign in Sudan and Afghanistan against targets the US asserted were associated with WIFJAJC.
  • -led coalition and the newly developing Iraqi military and post-Saddam government.
  • Other elements of the insurgency were led by fugitive members of President Hussein's Ba'ath regime, which included Iraqi nationalists and pan-Arabists.

• The War on Terrorism

  • The two main military operations associated with the War on Terror were Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi Freedom in Iraq.
  • -led coalition and the newly developing Iraqi military and post-Saddam government.

• The United Nations

  • President Bush maintained that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in violation of his post-Gulf War obligations.
  • Bush addresses the nation in 2003, announcing the beginning of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

• The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

  • Those arguing for a new Iraqi invasion insisted, however, that weapons still existed.
  • Two days later, in a coalition with Great Britain, Australia, and Poland, the United States began “Operation Iraqi Freedom” with an invasion of Iraq.
  • Soon Americans back home were watching on television as U.S. soldiers and the Iraqi people worked together to topple statues of the deposed leader Hussein around the capital.
  • While American deaths had been few, thousands of Iraqis had died, and the seeds of internal strife and resentment against the United States had been sown.
  • It has been suggested that more Iraqis, rather than Americans, should be involved in the rebuilding of Iraq.

• The "Surge" in Iraq

  • Senator Dick Durbin issued the Democratic response that called upon Iraqis to "disband the militias and death squads. " On January 18, Xinhua News Agency reported that "Whitehouse hopefuls," Sens.
  • The major element of the strategy was a change in focus for the U.S. military "to help Iraqis clear and secure neighborhoods, to help them protect the local population, and to help ensure that the Iraqi forces left behind are capable of providing the security. " The President stated that the surge would then provide the time and conditions conducive to reconciliation among political and ethnic factions
  • Among other approaches, the report suggested that the "United States should significantly increase the number of U.S. military personnel, including combat troops, imbedded in and supporting Iraqi Army units. " However, this language is not specifically included in any of the report's 79 recommendations .
  • Senator Dick Durbin issued the Democratic response that called upon Iraqis to "disband the militias and death squads. " On January 18, Xinhua News Agency reported that "Whitehouse hopefuls" Sens.
  • Put out by the Combined Intelligence Operations Center (CIOC), Baghdad, Iraq for open distribution.

• The Middle East

  • In addition to UN inspections, no-fly zones over Iraq were established by the U.S. and its allies to protect the Kurds in Iraqi Kurdistan and the Shiites in southern Iraq from aerial attacks by the Iraqi government.
  • In September 1996, Clinton ordered Operation Desert Strike in response to Saddam Hussein's attempt to launch an Iraqi military offensive campaign in the Kurdish town of Arbil in Iraqi Kurdistan.

• NATO and the Militarization and Interventions Abroad

  • The US mainly sided with Iraq, believing that Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini threatened regional stability more than Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.
  • After initial Iraqi military victories were reversed and an Iranian victory appeared possible in 1982, the American government initiated Operation Staunch to attempt to cut off the Iranian regime's access to weapons (notwithstanding their later shipment of weapons to Iran in the Iran-Contra Affair).
  • The US provided intelligence information and financial assistance to the Iraqi military regime.

• Collective Military Force

  • The Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Storm, was a war waged by a UN-authorized coalition force from 34 nations led by the United States, against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.
  • In August, 1990, Iraqi troops invaded Kuwait.
  • In this conflict, the UN, the US, and other nations were united into a military force that successfully propelled the Iraqi aggressor out of sovereign Kuwait.

• George H.W. Bush Abroad

  • "Operation Just Cause" was a large-scale American military operation and the first in more than 40 years that was not related to the Cold War.
  • Wary of not having sufficient domestic support for combat, Bush first deployed troops to the area to build up forces in the region and defend Saudi Arabia via Operation Desert Shield.
  • On January 14, after Congress authorized the use of military force against Iraq, the U.S. orchestrated an effective air campaign, followed by Operation Desert Storm, a one-hundred-hour land war involving over 500,000 U.S. troops and another 200,000 from 27 other countries, which expelled Iraqi forces from Kuwait by the end of February.
  • Bush sits at his desk in the Oval Office Study and talks on the telephone regarding Operation Just Cause in Panama, as General Brent Scowcroft and Governor John Sununu stand nearby.