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Who killed more Iraqis: Saddam Hussein or George W. Bush?
What were the main reasons behind the Iraq War?
The opening salvo of the Iraq War was launched on March 20, 2003, and it officially ended on December 18, 2011. The primary reasons given by the United States and its allies for the invasion were that Saddam Hussein's government possessed weapons of mass destruction and had ties to terrorist organizations such as al-Qaeda, a claim that was later proven to be false.