Chawosauria in the Iraq War

The Empire of Chawosauria outright condemned and opposed the Iraq War from its start to finish.

## Background

The September 11 Attacks on September 11, 2001, ended the post-Cold War peace and begun the War on Terror. However, the United States and its coalition in 2003, invaded Iraq and ousted its government headed by Saddam Hussein on the believe that Iraq had a stockpile of weapons of mass destruction and its government had connections to the perpetrators of the 911 attacks. Among America's allies against Iraq, the United Kingdom, then headed by Prime Minister Tony Blair, rooted for the American invasion that the British took part in the war.

Meanwhile, in the Chawosaurian world, the governing Communist Party, which held a trifecta in the Chawosaurian Imperial Government, thought the Invasion of Iraq was a stupid mistake, and overthrowing Saddam Hussein would lead to severe consequences for the entire Muslim World, not just for the Middle East. However, Supreme Leader Timothy Max Roosevelt insisted that the government should stay neutral on the Iraq War, though Roosevelt too opposed the war.

It turns out that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, and military occupation of Iraq was not breeding the results the Americans and the British wanted. This turned the global public, including the American and British public, against the war starting in 2005. The Americans reacted to the war negatively at the polls in the 2006 U.S. midterm elections, and President Bush lost his Republican trifecta, building ground for the election of Barack Obama, a Democrat from Illinois, who promised to end the War in Iraq, which he did two years after he took office in 2009, only to go back to Iraq in 2014 because of ISIL. In the United Kingdom, Tony Blair becomes unpopular because of Iraq, but he was still reelected as Prime Minister to a third term in 2005.

Unlike Tony Blair, President Bush couldn't run for a third term as President, he left office on January 20, 2009, leaving his office to newly elected successor Barack Obama, who will serve as President until his own presidency expired on January 20, 2017. Tony Blair resigned in 2007.

## Impact on the 2005 Chawopolis Palace Election

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The Iraq War partly influenced the result of the 2005 Chawosaurian legislative elections in the Chawosaurian world. The minority leader of the legislative chamber of the Chawopolis Palace, George Windsor, who was born in, and lived until his death in 2020 in the United Kingdom, is a member of the U.K. Labour Party, headed by Prime Minister Tony Blair. and Tony Blair had been in charge since 1997, after he was elected as Prime Minister to his first term in a landslide victory.

The fallout of the September 11 Attacks and the War on Terror has put George Windsor and his Social Democratic Labour Party in a much difficult to impossible position to defeat the Communist Party, which had been in power literally since World War II was over, which made the Communist Party the longest ruling party in Chawosaurian history, even as of 2021. Thanks to the 911 attacks, Chawosaurians, who are a non-religious majority people, have became too sour against the idea of religious tolerance, and see the War on Terror as "a second Crusades", and George Windsor and the Social Democrats have long supported religious tolerance, religious freedom, and multiculturalism, which made the Social Democrats bitterly unpopular with the Chawosaurian public in a post-911 era.

What really does not help George Windsor so much was that he is British, the United Kingdom under Tony Blair have played a significant role in starting the Iraq War, Blair supported and promoted the American rational of the Iraq War and helped the Americans invade and occupy Iraq. George Windsor shares the same political party as Tony Blair: the U.K. Labour Party, which created an awkward situation for Windsor, then the fact that Windsor was a staunch supporter of Tony Blair, didn't made Chawosaurian voters enthusiastic to vote for the Social Democrats over the incumbent Communist Party.

Windsor tried to distance himself from Tony Blair by being skeptical of Blair's excuses and narrative of the Iraq War and criticized the U.K.'s involvement in the war. But it wasn't enough for Chawosaurian voters to trust Windsor instead of the ruling communists. The Communist Party ran ads of George Windsor praising Tony Blair and even showed a picture of George Windsor shaking Tony Blair's hand.

At the end, the Communist Party won a massive supermajority of 532 seats to Windsor's 68 seats. Windsor's support for Tony Blair and his record on religious freedom were the main factors of Windsor's landslide loss.

## Chawosaurian Views on the Iraq War

Chawosaurians did not support the Iraq War. 2021 studies show that Chawosaurians still thought the Iraq War was "stupid and poorly planned". Chawosaurians believe the Iraq War, like the Vietnam War, was "another white man's colonial war". Only 720 Chawosaurians worldwide have self-enlisted themselves to fight in the war on behalf of their native governments who were involved in the war, none of these governments were Chawosaurian, only 5 Chawosaurians have returned from the war alive.

## See also

* Chawosauria in the War on Terror
* Chawosauria in the Vietnam War
* Chawosauria in World War II
* Chawosauria in the Russian Civil War
* Chawosauria in the 2020 United States Presidential Election