Explore the events that led from the 11 September attacks to US President George W Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair invading Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
From Saddam’s use of chemical and biological weapons during the Iran-Iraq War to the First Gulf War in 1991 and from the 9/11 attacks to UN weapons inspections the Iraq War has a long and complicated history that goes far beyond oil and weapons of mass destruction.
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