Repercussions of the invasion
in terms of political and social fields were extremely high in the years
following the invasion and multiple still exist today. Repercussions ranged
from political related violence in Iraq (Haddad, 2013) to pressure put upon
political parties and forces as a result of the invasion (Hernandez, &
al-Izzi., 2006), Iraq oil production constrained therefore limiting the country’s
economic gain (Nordhaus, 2002), and the total cost of the invasion outweighed
any of the benefits that it created due to the astronomical amount it reached
(Cogan, 2003). For the United States ‘the cost and trauma of the … military
occupation [in Iraq] could be justified because it was the first try to
establish democracy and set up democratic rights’ (Cogan, 2003), this goes
against what Hinnebusch (2007) states ‘The Bush Administration has to clear and
legitimize war on a state that did not threaten the United States’. Both of
these sources clash in ideas, Cogan talks of how the United States were trying
to achieve good despite the economic and political repercussions whereas
Hinnebusch talks about how the United States in fact had no reason to start a
war in the first place, therefore should manage the costs and political
implications as a consequence of their actions. Based on this information it
can be clearly noted that the occupation of Iraq caused gargantuan economic and
political costs to both the United States and Iraq.
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