{"id":534471,"date":"2026-03-20T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/534471\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T09:10:13","slug":"the-united-states-military-begins-iraqi-disarming-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/534471\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States military begins Iraqi disarming mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">BAGHDAD, Iraq (WCSC) \u2014 The United States invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">President George W. Bush said the mission was to disarm Iraq, end Saddam Hussein\u2019s support for terrorism and free the Iraqi people. U.S. forces never found weapons of mass destruction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Bush declared major combat just weeks later. The war continued for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Saddam Hussein was captured in December 2003. He was tried for crimes against humanity and executed in 2006.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The war killed more than 3,000 American troops and tens of thousands of Iraqis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCSC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAGHDAD, Iraq (WCSC) \u2014 The United States invaded Iraq on March 20, 2003. President George W. Bush said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,37020,37869,48905,14945,129,3,5572,188526,21,19,22,20,25,24,1139],"class_list":["post-534471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-baghdad","tag-bush","tag-invasion","tag-iraq","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-president","tag-saddam-hussein","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}