The Iraq War in Chen Feng's memory. It happened on March 20 of this year, and whether this life is still this day is not certain. However, looking at the position of the United States and Britain, this war is inevitable.

Since the end of the Cold War, the international balance of power has been strictly unbalanced, and the United States has superior superiority in military, science and technology, economy, and many other fields, becoming the sole superpower, and has established a national security strategy, that is, a hegemonic strategy, with the overall goal of maintaining US hegemony. At the same time, it set three specific goals: to maintain the security of the United States and its allies, to expand the American economy, and to promote American-style democracy in the world. Since the end of the Cold War, US foreign policy has revolved around this "one center, three basic points." Taking advantage of the fact that the old pattern after the Cold War has been broken and the new pattern has not yet been established, the United States has stepped up its global strategic expansion in an attempt to build a unipolar world according to its own wishes. In the first Gulf War, the United States struck a blow at regional hegemonism in Iraq and dominated and controlled the situation in the Gulf region; NATO's eastward expansion and the Kosovo War squeezed Russia's strategic space. Through the war, we can not only pull out the nail of Iraq, which he hates, and establish a strategic corridor in the Islamic world to safeguard US interests, but also control the core area of the Eurasian continent and realize the role of strategic containment against Russia, Europe, China, India, and other major powers.

As everyone knows. The Asia-Pacific region is the region with the highest concentration of geostrategic forces in the world, and the United States has extensive and huge political, economic, military, and security interests in the Asia-Pacific region. The United States has always maintained that it has very important strategic interests in the Middle East. In the summer of 2002, the US Department of Defense listed the Middle East as one of the key areas under US protection in the "National Defense Report" submitted to President Bush and Congress. After the "9 December" incident, the United States took eradicating the hotbed of fundamentalism in the Middle East and containing the threat of terrorism as another strategic goal it pursued in the Middle East. With the establishment of the Bush administration's international security strategy centered on maintaining the status of the United States as the "sole superpower," the status of the Middle East region in the US foreign strategy has been further enhanced. Iraq is a regional power, located in the center of the Middle East, with the world's second largest oil reserves, and occupies an important position in the Middle East's geopolitical economy. In this region of great geopolitical and economic significance, the United States has long-term strategic interests in eradicating a major regional power that is strongly anti-American, and of course it will not miss the opportunity. Some US officials have openly claimed that Iraq is the best location for the United States to build military bases in the Middle East. The victory in the war will enable the United States to regain control of the world oil market in a certain way. Iraq is rich in oil resources, and in 1993 it had proven oil reserves of 112 billion barrels, second only to Saudi Arabia, ranking second in the world, accounting for about 10 percent of the world's total proven reserves. Assistant Secretary of State Wolfowitz, one of the representatives of the hawks in the White House, openly claimed that the main purpose of using force against Iraq was for oil.

In addition, promoting American-style democracy and values around the world has always been an important part of the U.S. global strategy. After World War II, the United States was encouraged by the success of reforming Nazi Germany and militaristic Japan. The Bush administration has even regarded the promotion of American democracy and values as a major fundamental national policy of his administration, and this has been written into the "US National Security Strategy" report published in September 2002.

Besides. Some people also believe that the real purpose of the war launched by the United States is to control the oil outlets in Iraq and the Middle East, clamp down on Europe's oil sources, weaken the European economy, and deter European capital from entering the United States in large quantities, thereby striking at the euro and even bankrupting it, so as to maintain the hegemony of the dollar in the international financial system. Europe's economy and financial markets are about the size of the United States, and the euro could indeed be on par with the dollar if other major currencies do not challenge the dollar's position in the future. So, how much will the euro challenge cost the United States? Some people have calculated that the losses of the United States can reach up to $2.5 trillion, that is, about $10,000 per American. Comparing it to the Iraq war, the cost of the war and post-war economic reconstruction, although estimates vary widely, the highest estimate is $200 billion.

The other is to gain political capital for George W. Bush and use the Iraq war to enhance his prestige so that he can be re-elected in the 2004 presidential election. At the same time, a war against Izik could be carried out from Saudi Arabia. The resolution of the major rift between the United States and Saudi Arabia over al-Qaeda is also a secondary factor in the United States' use of force against Iraq.

As a matter of fact, as early as December last year, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz proposed at a meeting of the National Security Council that they should strike at Iraq, while US Secretary of State Colin Powell believed that the focus should be on cracking down on the "al-Qaeda" organization first. In the end, Bush decided not to attack Iraq for the time being. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz also said that the war on terror is not only about catching some people, but also about ending the countries that finance terrorism. The US media began to report that Mohammed Atta, one of the hijackers of the "12.9" incident, had been in contact with Iraqi intelligence officials in Europe. The US National Security Council held a meeting at Camp David, and Wolfowitz again proposed to Bush during a break in the meeting to "fight Iraq." Subsequently, this proposal was again rejected by Bush.

Subsequently, the "hawks" in the U.S. government began to emphasize Iraq's links with weapons of mass destruction, while weakening Iraq's links with the "12.9" or anthrax virus incidents. US Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security John Bolton declared at the Geneva Disarmament Conference that Saddam may have secretly developed biological weapons in the past three years. Therefore, Bush said that Iraq will either return the UN weapons inspection team to Iraq or be prepared to face the consequences of a possible military strike. He expanded the countries that the United States wants to fight from countries that shelter terrorism to those that "develop weapons of mass destruction and may use them to intimidate other countries." Bush's speech was regarded by international public opinion as a "war letter" against Iraq.

In January last year, Bush delivered his "State of the Union address" to the US Congress, listing Iraq, Iran, and North Korea as the "axis of evil," saying that these regimes "pose an increasingly serious danger by seeking weapons of mass destruction."

In his testimony before the House International Relations Committee in February, Powell said that it is the policy of the United Nations to conduct weapons inspections in Iraq, but that the United States itself has plans to change the Iraqi regime, regardless of progress in this area. Bush is already considering the "most severe set" to deal with Saddam.

The Los Angeles Times quoted a senior US government official as saying that the Bush administration has begun to focus on Iraq policy after a year of internal disagreements and interference from military operations in Afghanistan. The United States has made two strategic decisions: First, it must do its utmost to resolve the Iraqi issue and change the policy of mere containment of the past two administrations; Then, Bush issued a threat of war to Iraq, saying that the United States would not hesitate to use any means to defend itself, and Iraq should hear this clear message.

In March, Bush said that the United States would continue to consult with its allies to "fight Iraq." But "we will not allow one of the world's most dangerous leaders to possess the world's most dangerous weapons and use them to blackmail the United States and our friends and allies," is clearly his excuse. After this passage, during his visit to Canada, he said that the United States has no plans to use force against Iraq in the near future, but the United States wants to see a change of regime in Iraq. The next day, while attending the UN anti-poverty summit in Mexico, Bush said that although the United States does not plan to "fight Iraq" at present, even Saddam Hussein knows that the United States will one day "deal with" Iraq.

In April, Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair jointly stated that Saddam Hussein had developed weapons of mass destruction and refused to allow inspectors to enter Iraq for inspection, and that the United States and Britain therefore reserved all options for taking action against Iraq. But at the same time, they stressed that no decision has been made at this time. The New York Times said that the Bush administration was preparing to take action against Saddam Hussein in 2003 and that the fighting could continue until 2004. The Los Angeles Times reported that General Franks of the US Central Command has come up with a "draft for fighting Iraq," and the US military will dispatch five aircraft carriers, 200 to 300 fighter planes, and 15 to 200,000 troops.

In May, Powell said on ABC's program: "No matter how well the return of the United Nations weapons inspection team to Iraq goes, a change of regime in Baghdad is a good thing for the Iraqi people and the people of the region." That's U.S. policy.'" On the same day, Rice made the same remark in an interview with Fox News: "Regardless of the new moves taken by the United Nations in terms of weapons inspections or sanctions against Baghdad, we firmly believe that regime change [in Baghdad] is the best solution." This is the first time that the White House has explicitly distinguished the issue of "inverted Sa" from the issue of UN weapons inspections.

Speaking at a seminar, Wolfowitz said that Saddam Hussein used words and money to support Palestinian militants in launching suicide bombings against Israel, leading to the intensification of the crisis in the Middle East. Therefore, the US side believes that the overthrow of Saddam's regime will help resolve the Middle East conflict. This is the first time that the United States has linked the "downfall" with the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

At the end of July, Pentagon officers revealed to the New York Times the "Polo Pace" plan, which is similar to the Gulf War model, and is ready to use 250,000 US and British troops to encircle and attack Iraq on three sides. At a White House news briefing, Bush said that it is the "established policy" of the US Government to overthrow the Saddam regime in Iraq by "all available means." This speech was regarded as a declaration of "reversing Iraq," and the US media generally believed that the "fight against Iraq" was a foregone conclusion. The US State Department is scheduled to convene a meeting on 9 August with the participation of the Iraqi government opposition to discuss the action to overthrow Saddam. The Washington Post and other media reported that the Pentagon recently announced that it has cracked down on the Taliban and the "al-Qaeda" terrorist organization after nine months. The likelihood of a large-scale U.S. military operation in Afghanistan is becoming increasingly small. According to a report by the New York Times, a senior US Defense Department official revealed that once a decision is made to use military force against Iraq, the US military may use Jordanian military bases to launch air strikes and surprise operations against Iraq.

According to an analysis by the British "Times," Bush will "fight Iraq" in the first half of 2003. The reason is that too early could interfere with the midterm elections, and too late could cause the weather to be hot and could affect the 2004 presidential election. According to the history that Chen Feng knew, it was obvious that they were right.

Fearing that the United States would launch a large-scale attack on Iraq in a hurry, the United States would prompt the Bush administration to openly attack Iraq. The White House has reservations about whether to participate in the hearings because Bush has not yet decided how to achieve his goal of overthrowing Saddam.

On 28 July, the New York Times revealed a "central flowering" strategy, which was exactly the opposite of the "Polo Pace" plan, that is, to use a small number of US troops to occupy Iraq's key military sites, destroy Iraq's command system and weapons of mass destruction, and advance from the inside out, leading to the collapse of the Iraqi government. On the same day, the Combined Fleet, led by the U.S. Navy, began resuming surveillance operations such as inspections and interceptions in the northern Red Sea, which had been interrupted for eight years.

The next day, Bush delivered a speech in South Carolina, saying that "the worst leader in the world cannot be allowed to blackmail the United States or our allies with the most vicious weapons in the world." Biden, chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said that what the Bush administration needs to do now is not to make a hasty decision, but to carefully weigh the gains and losses of the "reversal." Pentagon officials said that the U.S. military has recently stockpiled ammunition and supplies at U.S. military bases in Qatar, Kuwait and Turkey, and that preparations for an attack on Iraq are tentatively codenamed "Operation Polo Pace." U.S. forces are using radio, fax and e-mail to issue intimidation warnings to Iraqi generals. The US military is also studying the tactics of "flowering in the center" and taking directly the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

In September, Bush delivered a speech at the UN General Assembly, in which he criticized Iraq for violating all agreements on the Iraq issue that the UN has agreed on, and demanded that the Security Council take action against Iraq.

In October, Bush delivered a nationally televised speech in Cincinnati, Ohio, in which he put pressure on Congress, which was about to vote on "fighting Iraq," saying that Saddam Hussein was the greatest threat to world peace and that he must be disarmed. In the same month, the US Congress approved a resolution authorizing Bush to use force against Iraq. A spokesman for the US State Department said that the United States has submitted a new Iraq plan to the Security Council. The new program details the new, stricter weapons inspection regime, as well as the consequences of non-compliance. He hoped that the members of the Council would come up with a complete formula after their discussions. Since then, the members of the Council have discussed various draft resolutions on Iraq on a number of occasions.

In November, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1441, demanding that Iraq immediately and unconditionally comply with previous UN resolutions, and at the same time allow the UN to carry out full and thorough weapons inspections, or face 'severe consequences'. The Council gave Iraq seven days to consider whether to accept resolution 1441; An updated report will be submitted to the Council within 60 days thereafter. The head of the verification team will ultimately decide whether Iraq has obstructed the inspections, whether it has "materially violated" UN resolutions, etc.

On 14 November, Bush approved the Pentagon's war plan against Iraq. The United States will use 250,000 ground troops to storm Baghdad. While the U.S. military will strike at Baghdad in parallel with the air strikes, ground forces will quickly launch attacks from three directions: western, northern and southern Iraq. On the same day, Iraq announced its unconditional acceptance of United Nations resolution 1441. Previously, the Iraqi National Assembly had rejected the resolution. The first group of 17 United Nations weapons inspectors, consisting of 17 experts, began the inspection of Iraqi weapons after a four-year hiatus. Inspectors once again reminded Iraq that as long as weapons inspections are officially underway, there will be "no privacy" at any location, including the presidential residence. UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan also warned Iraq that failure to fully cooperate with the efforts of weapons inspectors (such as restricting their access to certain sites) or to prove that they do not possess nuclear, chemical or biological weapons would lead the United States to wage war against Iraq. On the first day of inspection, the inspection team inspected a military factory 20 kilometers east of Baghdad in a surprise attack, and the head of the IAEA inspection team expressed satisfaction with the cooperation of the Iraqi side. On the same day, British Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown announced a £1 billion allocation to meet the needs of the Iraq war

At the end of the month, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz said that if Baghdad insists on declaring that there are no weapons of mass destruction, then this is a strong signal of Iran's non-cooperation. This is the so-called "weak country has no diplomacy", and it is also the most typical portrayal of "if you want to add crimes, there is no excuse for any trouble". Since then, Britain has released a government report accusing Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein of using torture and intimidation to suppress his citizens. British Foreign Minister Straw said that the Iraqi people live in fear and that the British government's report shows that Iraq has violated international human rights law.

At this point, the situation can be said to be slowly becoming clearer, and the United States and Britain are constantly pouring dirty water on Saddam Hussein, trying their best to stand on the moral high ground and preparing for a high-sounding excuse for his future acts of aggression and war.

At the same time, the United Nations inspection team made surprise inspections of several locations in Iraq, but unfortunately did not find any so-called "weapons of mass destruction", while the United States launched a new diplomatic offensive. Deputy Secretary of Defense Wolfowitz and Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs Grossman departed for Turkey, Cyprus, Greece, Germany, the Netherlands, France, Portugal, Belgium and the United Kingdom. Other officials, including Deputy Secretary of State Armitage and Deputy National Security Advisor Hadley, will travel to allies such as Australia and Japan to seek assistance. For his part, Bush came out to warn Iraq and demanded that Iraq, in accordance with the spirit of UN Resolution 1441, submit a detailed list of its weapons of mass destruction and long-range missile programs to the UN weapons inspectors by 8 December. Bush said that UN weapons inspectors did not go to Iraq to play a game of hide and seek. He said that Iraq's weapons notices must be detailed and credible. If Iraq fails to do so, Saddam Hussein will inevitably face the possibility of military action.

Under the threat of war by the United States, Iraq, which had already lost a war, naturally could not harden up, and it had to cooperate quite well, and they submitted a 12,000-page report on weapons of mass destruction to the United Nations in accordance with the requirements of Resolution 1441. Subsequently, a list of more than 500 scientists who had participated in Iraq's weapons development program was submitted to the verification team.

However, although the Iraqi side has taken the initiative to give in and cooperate this time, the United States and Britain have long been prepared for war, stepped up their deployment for the war against Iraq, and continuously increased their troops in the Gulf region.

At the end of December, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution to tighten controls on Iraq's imports of communications equipment, speedboats, antibiotics and other items, which is another round of sanctions against Iraq.

In January this year, US President George W. Bush proposed in a letter to British Prime Minister Tony Blair that in order to avoid a military confrontation, the Iraqi issue could be resolved through diplomatic means, but Iraq must abide by the conditions put forward by the United States. On the same day, Bush warned Iraqi President Saddam Hussein that "the day of settling accounts with him is coming" and that Saddam Hussein must take the initiative to disarm. At the same time, US and British warplanes entered the "no-fly zone" in southern Iraq and dropped nearly 500,000 leaflets on the two cities to introduce the radio frequencies set up by the US military in the region to broadcast against Iraq and to carry out counter-propaganda propaganda.

On 5 January, Bush even announced that the United States was ready to take military action against Iraq if Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein refused to destroy weapons of mass destruction. But in fact, the Iraqi side naturally does not have any "weapons of mass destruction".

On 6 January, the US Department of Defense sent a letter to the ministries of defense of EU countries, urging EU countries to join the United States in launching a military attack on Iraq and doing everything possible to overthrow Saddam's regime. But it is clear that most of the EU countries are somewhat resistant to the US request. In particular, in Germany and France, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder jointly claimed that France and Germany have the same attitude towards Iraq, that is, to put pressure on Iraq to comply with UN Resolution 1441. At the same time, the two sides stressed that they would not send troops against Iraq under any circumstances.

In mid-January, US Senate Majority Leader Forrest pointed out that the US Congress had given President Bush the authority to take the necessary measures to support his disarmament of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. While inspecting US troops stationed in Italy, Myers, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that war against Iraq could still be avoided, but now the decision is entirely in Iraq's hands.

At the end of January, the US Government formulated a war plan codenamed "Shock and Shock" against Iraq. The purpose of this plan is to "destroy the will of the Iraqi army to fight, not to inflict heavy casualties on the Iraqi forces". US Secretary of State Colin Powell said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that "only by force" can Saddam Hussein be disarmed.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said he hoped the UN Security Council would give UN weapons inspectors more time to complete their work in Iraq. Canadian Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Chrétien called on the United States to give UN inspectors more time to complete their reports. The two permanent members of the Security Council, including the European Union, NATO, Japan, and China and Russia, support the decision of the United Nations Security Council to continue investigating the status of Iraq's nuclear weapons.

In February, when China was fighting SARS at home, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan stressed that the use of force against Iraq was only the last option and must be authorized by the UN Security Council. US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said that the international community must be prepared to use force to disarm Iraq if necessary. President George W. Bush even said in a national radio address that if the UN Security Council does not authorize the United States, Britain, and other countries to disarm Iraq by force, the United States may also launch military action against Iraq.

From this, it can be seen that the United States has acted hegemonically and naturally does not take the United Nations and the Security Council into account.

In February, 22 countries issued a joint communiqué at a meeting in Cairo, calling on Arab countries not to provide any assistance or lend facilities to the United States in order to prevent the United States from attacking Iraq. The European Union held a special summit in Brussels, hoping to reach a common position on the Iraqi issue, and after the meeting issued a joint statement calling on Iraq to cooperate with United Nations weapons inspectors and warning Iraq that if it did not cooperate, the inspection work could not be carried out.

Most countries in the world opposed the use of force by the United States against Iraq, and since then, anti-war demonstrations of unprecedented scale have erupted around the world. But the United States once again ignored this. US National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice even said in an interview with NBC that the large-scale anti-war demonstrations that broke out around the world could not shake the US determination to overthrow the Saddam regime in Iraq.

In March, more than 300,000 people in Yemen marched against the war, urging leaders attending the 15th Arab summit in Egypt to refuse to provide assistance for the U.S. war against Iraq. subsequently

Large-scale anti-war demonstrations continue to break out around the world, including about 600,000 people in Spain, about 160,000 in Morocco, about 100,000 in Pakistan, about 10,000 in India, about 6,000 in Japan, 20,000 in Yemen, and about 800,000 Indonesians gathered in Surabaya, Indonesia's second largest city, to pray for peace and oppose the use of force by the United States and Britain against Iraq.

On 7 March, the United States, Britain, and Spain submitted an amendment to the new proposal on the Iraq issue in the Security Council, demanding that Iraq hand over to UNMOVIC and the International Atomic Energy Agency all weapons and accessories prohibited by 17 March.

On 12 March, Britain put forward six conditions for Iraq to avoid war: Saddam Hussein must promise on television to hide weapons of mass destruction, hand them over, and legislate to ban their production; By this time, the U.S. troop buildup in the Persian Gulf had grown to 250,000. The United States has opened "secret surrender" talks with high-ranking Iraqi military officials.

On 15 March, US President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Spanish Prime Minister Aznar held an emergency meeting on the situation in Iraq at the Rajes Air Base in the Azores Islands of Portugal. At the news conference after the meeting, Bush clearly announced that 17 March would be the deadline for diplomatic efforts to resolve the Iraqi issue. If Saddam Hussein does not disarm, he will face the fate of armed strikes. After Bush announced this statement, the United Nations, the United States, Russia, and other countries and international organizations have taken measures to withdraw from the Gulf region.

On 16 March, Greenstock, the British permanent representative to the United Nations, announced on 17 March on behalf of the three sponsors of the new proposal on Iraq that, after a final effort, the three countries had decided to abandon seeking a vote on the proposal by reaching a consensus in the Security Council.

This indicates that efforts to peacefully resolve the Iraqi issue have finally failed.

In his previous life, Chen Feng was naturally 100% on the sidelines of this US-Iraq war, but in this life, the US-Iraq war is still a bit important to Chen Feng, at least he can use this matter to make some gains in the stock market and financial market. In addition, Chen Feng is really very disgusted with the war against Iraq launched by the United States, because as a "man of the future", Chen Feng certainly knows the situation after Iraq was occupied by the United States, car bombs, suicide bombs, and sectarian fights every day...... It really made Chen Feng feel a little numb, the life of the Iraqi people is much more miserable than when Saddam Hussein** lived, although such a thing did not happen in his own country, but every time Chen Feng saw such news, he still couldn't help but feel sympathy for Iraq and resentment towards the United States. Although people lived under Saddam's rule, they did not live in fear and chaos all day long. In addition, if the United States were to establish its own military bases in the Middle East, especially in Iraq, it would be very unfavorable to our own country.

Chen Feng really wanted to deliberately make some moths to make the US war against Iraq not go so smoothly, but unless Chen Feng publicly stood up and made a statement, it would really have no effect.

Obviously, Chen Feng, as an artist, really has no right to point fingers at the major events of the war between countries. More importantly, Chen Feng knows that the U.S. government is determined to start a war against Iraq this time, even if he has great appeal in the world with his title of long, but people are already ready to send arrows, Chen Feng can stop for a while, but he can't stop it for too long. After all, even EU member states such as Germany and France can't stop it, let alone Chen Feng personally.

Therefore, in addition to taking the opportunity to make a fortune in the stock market due to the war, Chen Feng was honestly a spectator.

On 17 March, US President George W. Bush issued an ultimatum demanding that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his son leave Iraq within 48 hours or face a US military strike.

Two days later, Iraq rejected the US ultimatum, claiming that Saddam Hussein would never go into exile. Saddam Hussein called a military conference and declared that if the US army invaded, he would be met with resolute resistance. Iraq's permanent representative to the United Nations said Iraq would avoid war "at any cost". He called on UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to make a final effort to stop the US invasion of Iraq.

The US Government announced that 45 countries have publicly or privately expressed their support for the US use of force against Iraq. Australia has decided that it will participate in the US operation against Iraq. Spain said it would not send troops to participate in the U.S. military strike against Iraq, but agreed to allow the U.S. to use Spanish airspace and bases. Canadian Prime Minister Chrétien believes that the United States' use of force against Iraq is a forcible change of a country's regime, and Canada does not support the actions of the United States. Turkey has approved the use of the Turkish air passage by US military aircraft, but still does not agree to the deployment of troops in Turkish territory. Austria reiterated that the US operation in Iraq has not been approved by the United Nations, and Austria does not open its airspace to the US operation. Switzerland prohibits United States aircraft from flying over its airspace. The Saudis announced that they would not participate in the US operation under any circumstances.

White House spokesman Fleischer said that even if Iraqi President Saddam Hussein leaves Iraq within 48 hours, the United States and its allies will enter Iraq to disarm weapons of mass destruction that they may be staking.

The House of Commons of the British Parliament voted 412 in favor and 149 against to approve the Blair government's motion to disarm Iraq "by all necessary means".

Approximately 4,000 U.S. Marines stationed in Kuwait traveled in 1,000 tanks, armoured vehicles and trucks through the desert area of Kuwait's back to attack Iraq. The U.S. military sent EC-130 aircraft to drop 1.4 million leaflets into Iraq.

Jones, the commander of the U.S. Marine Corps and the supreme commander of the U.S. military stationed in Europe, said he had announced that the security alert level of the U.S. military stationed in 93 countries and regions in Europe, Africa and the Middle East would be raised to Level 2. But the only countries that actually entered the war were the United States, Britain, Australia, and Poland, and the Danish government declared war on Iraq and sent two warships to support the U.S. military. Japan and other countries provide logistical support. The war has been criticized and condemned by the governments and international organizations of Russia, France, Germany, the People's Republic of China, the Arab League, the Non-Aligned Movement, and many other countries. Austria and a number of other countries have claimed that the military action against Iraq has violated international law because it was not authorized by the UN Security Council. Former UN Secretary-General Boutros Ghali, an Egyptian national, condemned the military operation as a violation of the UN Charter. Austria, Switzerland and Iran have banned coalition warplanes from flying over its airspace, and Saudi Arabia has banned U.S. missiles from attacking Iraq through its airspace. The widespread anti-war sentiment around the world eventually led to a global march against the war against Iraq.

On March 20, at the very beginning of the US-Iraq war, the US-British coalition launched a large-scale air and ground offensive against Iraq, codenamed Operation Decapitation and Operation Deterrence. After the war began, Bush made a televised speech to the nation, announcing the beginning of the war to overthrow Saddam's regime, stressing that the war would be "resolved quickly." The US-British coalition dropped more than 2,000 precision-guided bombs of various types, including 500 Tomahawk cruise missiles, on more than 10 cities and ports, including Baghdad, Basra, Najaf, Mosul, Kirkuk, and um Qasr. At the same time, Saddam Hussein also addressed the whole country, calling on the Iraqi people to resist US aggression and defeat the US-British coalition forces.

Due to the long supply lines and the resistance of the Iraqi side, the goal of a "quick victory" of the US-British coalition forces was not achieved, and the ground offensive was blocked for a time, and the war entered a stalemate. The Iraqi army engaged in fierce battles with the US-British allied forces in Karbala, Hirahindiyah and other places in central Iraq. At the same time, hundreds of Iraqis return to Iraq every day from Jordan and other countries to join the fight against the US-British coalition.

At the turning point of the war, the US-British coalition forces, relying on air superiority and mechanized troops, launched a powerful offensive in several directions, successively captured Basra and other important cities and strategic points in southern Iraq, and formed a siege of Baghdad, thus making the war a one-sided situation. On 8 April, U.S. forces advanced to Baghdad from both the north and the south and seized the Rashid military airfield southeast of Baghdad. American tanks marched into Baghdad and captured the city of Saddam. In the face of the long march of US troops into Baghdad and Tikrit, the Iraqi leader called on the army and people to take a "common death" attack on the US-British coalition forces.

The U.S. military announced on April 15 that the main military operations in the Iraq War had ended and that the coalition forces had "taken control of all of Iraq." According to U.S. officials, the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war was 128, of whom 110 were killed in action and 18 died in accidents. British soldiers died 31 people. The war cost the United States about $20 billion.

In addition, in Chen Feng's memory, in the early days of the coalition occupation of Iraq, it was widely welcomed by the Iraqi people because of the end of Saddam's rule. When the US military entered Baghdad, it was also welcomed by local citizens. After the war, with the help of the United States and other countries, Iraq's economy recovered, but its development was slow. The number of unemployed people is huge, and the safety of residents' lives and daily life are not effectively guaranteed. The guerrilla war in Iraq against the military occupation of the United States and Britain was raging, and the 160,000 US occupation troops intervened in the Iraqi civil war. In 2008, the U.S. military death toll exceeded 4,000, surpassing the 12.9 death toll from terrorist attacks, and more than 30,000 were injured, many with disabilities, leading to family breakdowns and other tragedies. Direct military spending of $500 billion is on par with the total war spending of the United States in the Vietnam War of $663 billion.