 Rambai muchinyora ndima iyi - Kurwiswa kwekutanga kwakaitika paHondo yeUmm Qasr musi wa 21 Kurume 2003, apo simba rakabatanidzwa reBritish, US uye mauto ePoland akatora guta rechiteshi cheUmm Qasr. Baghdad, guta guru reIraq, rakawira mumaoko emauto eU.S. muna April 2003 uye hurumende yaSaddam Hussein yakakurumidza kuparara. Musi waMay 1, 2003, Bush akazivisa kuti basa guru rokurwa muIraq rakanga rapera. Zvisinei, kupandukira kwakamuka kurwisana neboka raitungamirirwa neUnited States uye uto reIraq richangotanga uye hurumende yaitonga pashure paSaddam. Kupandukira, uko kwaibatanidza mapoka akabatanidzwa neAl-Qaeda, kwakatungamirira kukuvadziko dzakawanda zvikuru dzesangano rakabatanidzwa kupfuura kupinda kwacho. Zvimwe zvikamu zvevapanduki zvaitungamirirwa nenhengo dzakapukunyuka dzehurumende yaBaath yaPurezidhendi Hussein, iyo yaisanganisira varudzi veIraqi uye pan-Arabists. Vatungamiriri vazhinji vevapanduki vakanga vari vaIslam uye vaiti vakanga vari kurwa hondo yorudzidziso yokudzorera Caliphate yechiIslam yemazana amakore akapfuura. Saddam Hussein akabatwa nemauto eU.S. muna December 2003 uye akaurayiwamuna 2006. 