1. Why we Fight!

2. Why does the USA fight so many wars?
For the last two decades, an international survey has found most people around the world view the United States as the greatest threat to world peace.

3. Who Is Dwight Eisenhower?
A Five Star General
Organized the D-Day Assault in WWII
Became US President
Warned about the rise of the
Military Industrial Complex

4. Military Industrial Complex is:
a nation’s military
and
The Companies producing arms & materials
When your job depends on war, you Have a vested interest in going to war

5. Persian Gulf War: 1991 Pres – George h. Bush
- Leads NATO and UN forces to repeal Hussein
Saddam Hussein
Dictator of Iraq
Invades Kuwait

6. Saddam Retreats: From 1991 - 2001
Lights the Kuwaiti oil fields on fire on the way out
From
The un is in Iraq to monitor saddam Hussein

7. Understanding the time: 2006
Pres – George W. Bush
- Elected in 2000 9/
- Concerns about al Qaeda and Afghanistan
2001 – War in Afghanistan
- The U.N. Approved – Canada is involved for 10 years (158 Canadians killed)
2003 – War in IRAQ
- NOT Approved by UN
- Protested around the world

8. Understanding the time:
Vice Pres – Dick Cheney
Sec. of Defense – Donald Rumsfeld
Pres – George W. Bush

9. The Iraqi War: 2003 – 2011 Impact on Iraq: Cost the Americans:
Saddam Hussein is killed
Iraqi civilians are killed
The country is destabilized
Radical Islamic militants from around the world gather to fight the us
ISIS is formed
Cost the Americans:
$2.4 Trillion
4 486 soldier’s lives
Their international reputation
Issues of:
Torture and abuse