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Article: Iraqi Freedom, Operation (2003 War Against Iraq)
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Iraqi Freedom, Operation (2003 War Against Iraq)
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K. LEE LERNER
After failed efforts to persuade the United Nations Security Council to endorse the use of force to disarm Iraq and oust the regime of Saddam Hussein, the United States, United Kingdom, and a coalition of countries resolved to achieve those aims through military action. Although regime change
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the forced elimination of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein and his sons from power
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was initially only a stated goal of the United States, it became a
de facto
goal of all coalition forces.
Although Iraq's military power was not as great
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and the cause not as directly apparent as the need to expel ...