When did the war in Iraq start? ?

Question

Was it february 2003??

Answer 1

Depends on who you talk to but The Iraq war, also known as the Second Gulf War or the War in Iraq is an ongoing conflict which began on March 20, 2003 with the United States-led invasion of Iraq by a multinational coalition composed of United States and United Kingdom troops supported by smaller contingents from Australia, Denmark, Poland, and other nations.[29] The purpose of the war was the removal of the regime of Saddam Hussein, considered by the coalition to be a global threat, and its replacement with a democratic, pro-western government. Although the removal of Saddam Hussein from power was accomplished relatively easily, the establishment of a secure and stable Iraq has presented more of a challenge, with insurgency and sectarian civil strife

Answer 2

march 2003  

Answer 3

March 19, 2003.

Answer 4

The groundwork for sectarian violence goes all the way back to the death of Mohamed in 632 CE. Having no heirs, there was an immediate struggle to fill the power vacuum left after his death. Some of his followers believed in electing Caliphs (successors) and others believed that the line of succession should be through Mohammad's relatives, kind of the way royal bloodlines work in Europe. Over time this rift grew to outright civil war, with the pro-election faction becoming known as Sunnis and the bloodline adherents forming the s**+'ites. These guys seriously HATE each other. So when World War I ended and the British drew the boundary lines of modern Iraq, they must not have realized that they were lumping together three different peoples (Sunnis, s**+'ias and Kurds) who all despised each other into one big country. It took an iron-fisted dictator like Saddam to keep the country from blowing up into a civil war, and when the US stormed in on March 20th 2003 and overthrew Saddam, it wasn't really surprising to anyone who understood the situation there (i.e. NOT the Bush administration) that there was an immediate up-tick in sectarian violence, as well as tons of insurgents pouring across the border to stir things up. We should have known better than to get involved in that mess... but sadly, no. Five years later here we are still bogged down in it, as though we had all the money in the world to spend on a hopeless cause.

Answer 5

Officially March 20, 2003