If you can't see the embeded video, you can click here--Shock and awe - by Novara Media at March 20, 2019 - Facebook video
"the war on Iraq began." No. You should write "Iraq invasion began".
So I googling about it. And found this interesting article - Why did Bush go to war in Iraq? | Iraq | Al Jazeera @ March 20, 2019 by Ahsan I Butt.
Author quoted interesting writing so I am quoting, too:
In a 2002 column, Jonah Goldberg coined the "Ledeen Doctrine", named after neoconservative historian Michael Ledeen. The "doctrine" states: "Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we mean business."
I wrote this before - USA has banned 7 Muslim countries which USA is currently bombing 5 of them and.... @ January 29, 2017
If you wanted to know the reason--probably just one part though, I strongly suggest to watch 'Why We Fight' documentary.
There has interesting story, too. So I'm quoting about it:
quoted from Why We Fight (2005 film) - Wikipedia
The producer's list included "more than a dozen organizations, from the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation to the United Kingdom's BBC, Estonia's ETV and numerous European broadcasters" but no U.S. names.
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Writer and director Jarecki said "serious examination of Eisenhower and the aftermath of his speech proved 'too radical' for potential American funders for his film" and except for Sundance, he "could not raise a dollar in the U.S."
I found other interesting idea from Why We Fight official website (sonyclassics.com) - Q&A with Eugene Jarecki - About the film
Quoted from Q&A with Eugene Jarecki:
Why do you think we are fighting in Iraq?
Many reasons. There have been so many reasons given for why we are in Iraq - from WMDs to oil, from a democratic crusade to the desire by influential geostrategists to reassert American global power in the wake of 9/11. None of these answers alone is comprehensive. Rather, I think they're all partially true. The war seems to have been of shared service to a range of interests - a coming together of imperial thinkers, global petroleum concerns, and a culture of militarism that tilts toward/requires war to self-perpetuate. After 9/11 all of these came together to create the almost unexplainable momentum that pushed the country to war.
