Original sentence: - The United States and coalition forces invaded Iraq, in 2003.Changes in the political arena, especially since Saddam had been supplied with some conventional weapons and other assistance during theIran Iraq War by the United States in the 1980's, were due in no small part to a increasingly hardline stance that Saddam had imposed on Iraq and his subjects, and his arbitrary invasion of Kuwait in 1990.Proponents of the use of force cited current and previous violations of resolutions by the UN and the UN Security Council and the violations of these resolutions and sanctions as substantive enough to justify the military intervention in Iraq by coalition forces.Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq, was described as a threat to the world and his own people as long as he remained in power -- especially with access to WMDs.The Bush administration began announcing that they believed that they had discovered that there were weapons of mass destruction (or WMDs) in Iraq.The operation was known in the United States as Operation Iraqi Freedom.Though the U.and U.had attempted to gain a security council resolution authorizing the use of force to remove Saddam from power, they were unsuccessful
Edited sentence: (The intelligence documents were later discovered to be a college student's paper on the earlier Iraq war, and the aerial photography was an inconclusive photograph of a truck.) Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq, was described as a threat to the world and his own people as long as he remained in power -- especially with an arsenal of WMDs.After unsuccessfully attempting to gain approval from the United Nations, the United States United States and the "coalition of the willing" invaded Iraq, in 2003.Changes in the political arena, especially since the 1980's when the United States supplied Saddam with some conventional weapons and other assistance during the Iran Iraq War, were due in no small part to a increasingly hardline stance that Saddam had imposed on Iraq and his subjects, and his invasion of Kuwait in 1990.The Bush administration began announcing that "We have conclusive evidence that Saddam Hussein posesses weapons of mass destruction" (quote from Donald Rumsfield).The operation was called by the Bush Administration Operation Iraqi Freedom