Pres. W. and is GOP cronies got support from other countries........

2003 invasion of Iraq
Part of the Iraq War
U.S. Army M1A1 Abrams tanks and their crews pose for a photo in front of the "Hands of Victory" monument at Baghdad's Ceremony Square in November 2003.
Date 20 March 2003 – 1 May 2003 Location Iraq Result Coalition victory; Ba'athist Iraqi government overthrown Occupation of Iraq until June 2004[6] New Iraqi government established Iraqi insurgency and sectarian conflicts
Belligerents
Coalition forces:  United States  United Kingdom  Australia  Poland With military support from:  Iraqi National Congress[1][2][3]  Peshmerga  KDP  PUK	Iraq  Arab volunteers[4][5]  Ansar al-Islam
Commanders and leaders
George W. Bush  Tommy Franks  Tony Blair  Brian Burridge   John Howard  Aleksander Kwaśniewski  Leszek Miller  Massoud Barzani  Babakir Zebari  Jalal Talabani  Kosrat Rasul Ali  Ahmad Chalabi	Saddam Hussein  Qusay Hussein  Uday Hussein  Abid Hamid Mahmud  Ali Hassan al-Majid  Barzan Ibrahim  Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri  Ra'ad al-Hamdani  Abu Abdullah Warya Salih Shafi (Ansar-ul-Islam commander)
Strength
380,000 troops[7]  United States: 192,000 troops[8]  United Kingdom: 45,000  Australia: 2,000  Poland: 194[9]  Peshmerga: 70,000[10]  Iraqi National Congress: 620	Iraqi Armed Forces: 375,000 (disbanded in 2003) Special Iraqi Republican Guard: 12,000 Iraqi Republican Guard: 70,000–75,000 Fedayeen Saddam: 30,000  Iraqi reserves: 650,000[11][12] 600-800 An