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What was the reason for the war in Iraq?
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The US invaded Iraq in 2003. The reason for the invasion was to remove Saddam Hussein from power. Saddam Hussein was a dictator who had been in power since 1979, and had been involved in a number of wars against neighboring countries. In 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait, which was a part of Iraq, but Kuwait had been independent since the 1970s. The US did not want to see another country in the Middle East controlled by a dictator, so the US invaded Iraq to overthrow Saddam Hussein.