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B. Claims before the invasion that Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction and supporting al-Qaeda militants turned out to be untrue. Some 1.5 million Americans served in Iraq since the invasion, while 4,485 U.S. soldiers and more than 100,000 Iraqis died in the war. Nearly 30,000 American soldiers were wounded in a conflict that cost the U.S. $1 trillion.
A. The Kurds are an ethnic minority in Iraq who speak the Kurdish language. Most belong to the Sunni branch of Islam rather than the Shia branch. The Kurds were violently oppressed under Hussein but now administer their own affairs in the Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq.
D. About two-thirds of Iraqis follow Shia Islam and the government is dominated by Shiites. Neighboring Iran is controlled by Shia clerics who are openly hostile to the United States. Iran reportedly supplied many of the weapons and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) used to kill American soldiers during the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
D. The Iran–Iraq War lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. During the war, the United States sold weapons to both sides, but Iraq received most covert U.S. aid. U.S. relations with Iraq soured in 1990 when Hussein invaded oil-rich Kuwait. The United States led a multinational force to drive Iraqi troops out of Kuwait in early 1991.