Original sentence: Approximately 250,000 United States troops, with support from 45,000 British, 2,000 Australian and 200 Polish,and approximately 900 Spanish combat forces, entered Iraq primarily through their staging area in Kuwait.Bush, demanding that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his two sons Uday and Qusay leave Iraq, the last action of the Iraq disarmament crisis; Iraqi President  Saddam Hussein refused.It began without after the expiration of a 48-hour deadline was set by U.The United States congress also passed the "Iraq Liberation Act" in October 1998, which provided $97 million for groups trying to overthrow the Iraqi government; stating that only with "regime change" would the sanctions be lifted
Edited sentence: Approximately 250,000 United States troops, with support from 45,000 British, 2,000 Australian and 200 Polish,and a number of Spanish combat forces, entered Iraq primarily through their staging area in Kuwait.Bush, demanding that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and his two sons Uday and Qusay leave Iraq, the last action of the Iraq disarmament crisis; Iraqi President Hussein refused.It began without explicit UN Security Council support after the expiration of a 48-hour deadline was set by U.The United States congress also passed the "Iraq Liberation Act" in October 1998, which provided $97 million for groups trying to overthrow the Iraqi government; stating that only with "regime change" would the sanctions be lifted, in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 687; and using weapons inspections to commit espionage, the information from which was then used in targeting decisions during Operation Desert Fox