War in Iraq
By Mike Davenport
Recent Facts since 2003
• American deaths:4,362
• Americans Wounded:30,182
• Iraqis dead: About 180,000
• Money spent on War :930,166,850,000
Iraqi Government
• Iraq has a type of Government called a Parliamentary
Democracy
• Iraq has a 3 branch Government where they elect their
officials
• chief of state: President Jalal TALABANI ; Vice Presidents
Adil ABD AL-MAHDI and Tariq al-HASHIMI note - the
president and vice presidents comprise the Presidency
Council)
• head of government: Prime Minister Nuri al-MALIKI Rafi al-
ISSAWI cabinet: 36 ministers appointed by the Presidency
Council, plus Prime Minister Nuri al-MALIKI and Deputy Prime
Ministers Barham SALIH and Rafi al-ISSAWI
• elections: held 15 December 2005 to elect a 275-member
Council of Representatives
Is the deBa’athification
commission still functioning?
• To an extent. Despite Bremer's order to disband the
commission, Chalabi led a successful effort in mid-2004
to keep it running. He argued that, because the
commission is enshrined in Iraq's interim constitution,
Bremer did not have the authority to shut it down. The
commission presented its case to the Iraqi National
Council, the interim government's 100-member advisory
body. Allawi, meanwhile, has taken steps to weaken the
commission and has reportedly ignored many of its
recommendations.
• The new Government of Iraq decided to remove all ex
Ba’thists from Government
Iraq Military
• The Iraqi Military and Iraqi Police are
functional
• The Iraqi Security Forces(ISF) is now in
control of maintaining order in Iraq
Abu Gharib Incidents
• Prisoners were subjected to severe physical and psychological
abuse. The abuse included sleep deprivation, forced stress
positions, forced nudity, using dogs to scare and bite prisoners,
death threats and sexual abuse.
• George W. Bush claimed the acts were in no way indicative of
normal or acceptable practices in the United States Army.
• Lynndie England is the most known person for abusing the prisoners
and is seen in may photographs torturing prisoners
The 2008 election & troop levels
• In 2008 Barack Obama a democrat was voted the United
States President and is against the war.
• At this moment he is still deciding on whether to send
more troops to Iraq and Afghanistan
• If the troops are sent over it will cost the United States
up 50 billion dollars a year
• At this point there are thousands of troops already in
Afghanistan and Iraq and our Government is not sure if
they are willing to send 40,000 more
“No End In Sight” & Extra Questions
• What most surprised me about the film was the poor decision
making of our Government
• I was most angered that innocent American soldiers and Iraqis had
to die
• One question I still have is when we will be out of the war and what
reason did we really go into Iraq
• I believe that every American deserves to know the truth about Iraq
and that there shouldn’t be any secrets in our country
• I believe that our Country has learned a lesson but I do not think we
could apply the information to new situations, but instead use it to
keep us out of the situations
The War
• As of right now the war has crippled the
United States
• We have spent billions of dollars and lost
thousands of troops and the chaos
continues in Iraq
• Hopefully some day we can resolve the
problems and have everyone be peaceful