Iraq War
The Iraq War refers to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq and the ensuing multi-year military occupation and conflict. The claims discuss it as a politically contested event involving justifications (neoconservative democracy-promotion rhetoric), corporate contracting and profiteering, and sharp demographic divides in public support.
Claims that use this term
- Bernard Lewis mentored the neoconservatives who planned the Iraq War
- Bush sold the Iraq War through neoconservative democracy-promotion rhetoric
- Contractors made up half of deployed personnel in the Iraq War.
- American corporations profiteered massively from the Iraq War
- White evangelicals supported the Iraq War at rates sharply above other Americans
- Senior officials openly framed the Iraq War as a fight of terror against terror.