During the American presidency of George W. Bush, the United States suffered a horrific atrocity that will always be remembered as 9/11 . On this day, terrorist Osama bin Laden launched an organized attack on the United Nations in the United States, during which he used airliners to attack the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. After this attack, the Bush administration declared war on Iraq for various reasons: continued sponsorship of terrorism, ridding it of its alleged possession of weapons of mass destruction, and removing Sadam Hussein from power. The United States has also said it wants to help establish democracy in Iraq to help the Iraqi people. The war and reconstruction of Iraq were violent and ineffective. While the United States presented the war as an attack on terrorism, protection of American civilians, and aid to the Iraqi community, it fell short. The war in Iraq was a war against various things. One of the main reasons the United States entered the war was because it believed that Sadam Hussein, the dictator of Iraq, sponsored terrorism and possessed weapons of mass destruction. As U.S. military groups relentlessly searched for these weapons, they soon realized that Iraq did not possess the weapons of mass destruction that the United States claimed to possess. Looking at the war from this specific point of view, I realize that the war was pointless, they made false accusations against Iraq, and at the end of the research they found nothing. The United States acted on impulse rather than facts and committed horrible atrocities under the assumption that it was not telling the truth about the weapons it believed it had in Iraq. During the Iraq War, many civilians were held captive in a prison... middle of paper... ns they never got. They also failed to help rebuild the landscape and further damaged their economy while presumably trying to help. One of the worst violations committed by the US embassy occurred at Abu Ghraib, when it violated the basic human rights it claimed to defend. The war in Iraq is a perfect example of why many countries view us as a terrorist threat; we violate the rights of others while we claim to help them. One might wonder how much better or worse were the lives of the Iraqi people while Sadam Hussein ruled Iraq, or was the United States the real dictator/terrorist? It's debatable. Based on the Iraq War and the efforts to rebuild Iraq, the United States was not successful at all in the Iraq War, it neither helped the nation nor helped Iraq in reconstruction, they instead harmed its economy, its landscape and many civilians..