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Iraq War : Background and Issues Overview

By Copson, Raymond W.

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Title: Iraq War : Background and Issues Overview  
Author: Copson, Raymond W.
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Language: English
Subject: Government publications, Legislation., Government Printing Office (U.S.)
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Copson, R. W. (n.d.). Iraq War : Background and Issues Overview. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/


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Excerpt: Daily Developments For a day-by-day summary of Iraq-related developments through the end of the combat phase of the war, see Iraq-U.S. Confrontation: Daily Developments...

Table of Contents
Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Daily Developments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Purpose of This Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Prelude to War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Final Diplomatic Efforts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Public Reactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 U.S. Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 The Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Policy Debate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Congressional Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Congress and Post-War Iraq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Issues for Congress . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Military Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Diplomatic Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Relations with European Allies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Role of the United Nations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Debate on Improving Relations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Use of Diplomatic Instruments in Support of the War . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Use of Diplomatic Means to Promote Iraq’s Recovery . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 Weapons of Mass Destruction Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Iraq’s Deployable Weapons of Mass Destruction? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 The Search for WMD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Role for U.N. Inspectors? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Post-War Governance Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Administration Policy on Governance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Establishing an Interim Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Reconstruction and Oil Industry Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Continuation of the Oil-for-Food Program/U.N. Sanctions . . . . . . . . . 24 Burden Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

 
 



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