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The Iraq war, A.K.A. the Second Gulf war, is an ongoing military campaigne that began on March 20th 2003. The United states military and the United kingdoms militray are both envolved. Before the war, U.S., U.K. and Spain said that Iraq had possessions of weapsons of mass destruction. Although the United Nations weapons inspectors found no evidence of the weapons. After U.S. and U.K. invaded, they decided that Iraq did end its WMD programs in 1991 but had no active programs at the time they had invaded. Some U.S. officials said that Saddam Hussein was harboring and supporting Al-Qaeda. Some other reasons for the invasion was because U.S. though that Iraq's financial suippor for families of Palestinian suicide bombers, human right abuses, and for the coalition forces to spread democracy in the country. Other officials said Iraq's oil reserver were made to invade. The invasion led to defeating the Iraqi military and the capturing of Saddam Hussein. The U.s. led to coalition by Iraq and they attempted to make a new democratic government. Although, violence against the coalition forces has been rising. The number of Iraqis killed through 2007 is between 85,000 to 1000,000. In June 2008, the U.S. defense officials had claimed security and economic was showing signs of improvement. In Augustm Itaq was fifthe on the Failed States Index. Then member nations of the Coalition took most of their forces out of their which Iraqi's started to take responsibility for security. Then In 2008, the Iraqi governments approved a Status of Forces agreement and ratified a Stategic Framework Agreement with the U.S. to ensure international cooperation in constitutional rights, education, energy development, etc. Finally in 2009, Barack Obama announced that they would be taking out their forces for 18 months for combat forces.