Short Term Effects >>>While Long Term Is To Come

~ Terrible cost funded by Kuwait
~ Iraqi Suffered badly under economic sanctions imposed on country by U.N.
~ President Bill Clinton retailed w/ 4 days of air attacks
~ After invasion of Iraq by US-led coalitions, cultures did not see eye to eye
~ Sunnies and Shia's began fighting one another ( Sunni's angry at loss of status and fearful of Shia's dominating Iraq
~Disbandant of Iraqi police and army Iraqi citizens threatened by indiscriminate violence , bombing, murders and kidnapping
~ Infrastructure, electricity and water supply breakdown
~ Streets are war zones
~ By 2008 2.5 million displaced
~ Struggling to provide necessary food, shelter, and medical attention
~ People had to wait to recieve aid and food rations 
~ Ethinic group rivalry make getting representative government hard because of the Sunni and Shia problems and it could spill in greater Middle East
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