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The Iraq war was started in March 20, 2003 (Operation Iraqi Freedom). It was started because George W. Bush sent in troops to Iraq. He said that there are, " Weapons of mass destruction", but truly we are there just for oil. There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq just a whole lot of oil. So lets all thank the president now.

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9y ago

The fighting started in each case for different reasons.

In Iraq
The US invasion (on the pretext that Saddam Hussein had a weapons of mass destruction) which resulted in the overthrow of Saddam's Dictatorship and an upsurge in ethnic tensions and conflicts. The new government of Iraq was a Shiite majority which alienated its Sunni minority. Militias of both groups fight violently against one another.

In Syria
Initially, the Arab Spring protests which has uprooted the regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and threatened to uproot those in other countries migrated to Syria. The values that undergirded the original Arab Spring in Syria included campaigning for more democracy, developing economic self-sufficiency and equality, freedom to criticize the government, unified Syrian citizenship (as opposed to ethnic and religious loyalties), and transparent government. After a few weeks, the regime decided to open fire on the protesters, thus leading to open conflict. As a result, the Arab Spring values have fallen by the wayside as the conflict has escalated and continues to escalate. Currently over 200,000 people have died.

In both Syria and Iraq, the Sunni Islamist Extremist Group called the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has further plunged the region into chaos.

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12y ago

It's not civil war, It's revolution against dictatorship regime.

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