Original sentence: After approximately three weeks of fighting, the Ba'ath Party was deposed.Approximately 250,000 United States troops, with support from 45,000 British, and smaller forces from other nations, now known as the 'coalition', entered Iraq primarily through a staging area in Kuwait.The matter caused heated debate in the Security Council, and there is great disagreement about whether the phrase 'serious consequences'(SC resoultion 1441) was an authorization for war or not
Edited sentence: After approximately three weeks of fighting, the Ba'ath Party was deposed and the period known as post-invasion Iraq began.Approximately 250,000 United States troops, with support from 45,000 British, and smaller forces from other nations, entered Iraq primarily through their staging area in Kuwait.It began without the explicit backing of the United Nations Security Council