 Ramba uchinyora ndima iyi - Nyika dzinopfuura 20 kunyanya United Kingdom, dzakatumidzwa kuti boka revanhu vanoda dzakabatana neUnited States mukupinda muIraq. Vakatanga kurwisa musi waMarch 20, 2003. Mauto eIraq akakurumidza kukundwa. Guta guru, Baghdad, rakawa musi waApril 9, 2003, izvo zvakaguma nokugumburwa kwehurumende yaBaathist yaSaddam Hussein yave ichitonga kwemakore 24. Musi waMay 1, Bush akazivisa kuguma kwemabasa makuru okurwa muIraq. Kubudirira kwokutanga kwemabasa eU.S. kwakawedzera mukurumbira wake, asi U.S. nemauto akabatana akatarisana nekupandukira kwakakura kunotungamirirwa nemapoka ezvitendero; Bush Mission Accomplished hurukuro yakashoropodzwa sekukurumidza. Mutungamiri Bush akabva agadza Paul Bremer Mutungamiri weMutungamiri kuIraq musi waMay 9, 2003 uye mutungamiri weCoalition Provisional Authority, kugadzwa kwake kwakamuzivisa pasi pe chiremera, kutungamira uye kutonga kweGurukota rezvekudzivirira Donald Rumsfeld. Musi waDecember 14, 2003, President Bush vakazivisa kubatwa kwaSaddam Hussein, pashure pokunge mauto eU.S. amubata muOperation Red Dawnuye akati Saddam aizotarisana neruramisiro yaakaramba kumamiriyoni. Nokuda kwavatsigiri veBaath vane mutoro nokuda kwechisimba, hakuzovi nokudzokera kusimba rakashata neropafadzo izvo vakambobata. Kubva muna 2004 kusvika muna 2007, mamiriro ezvinhu muIraq akawedzera kuipa, vamwe vaongorori vachitaura kuti paive nehondo yevagari vemo yakazara muIraq. Nheyo dzaBush dzakasangana nokushoropodzwa, kubatanidza zvinodikanwa zvomunyika kuti zvigadzire purogiramu yenguva yokubvisa mauto muIraq. Mushumo womuna 2006 weBipartisan Iraq Study Group, wakatungamirirwa naJames Baker, wakagumisa kuti mamiriro ezvinhu muIraq akanga ari akakomba uye achiipa. Kunyange zvazvo Bush akabvuma kuti pane zvikanganiso zvakarongwa zvakaitwa maererano nokugadzikana kweIraq, akaramba achiti aisazochinja hurongwa hwose hweIraq. Maererano neIraq Body Count, vanhu vokuIraq vanenge 251 000 vakaurayiwa muhondo yevagari vemo yakatevera kupindirwa kwakatungamirirwa neUnited States, kusanganisira vagari vemo vanenge 163 841. 