During campaigns, politicians create a lot of promises that may be impossible to do. A lot of people also hope that elected officials will serve the people without political division or greed. There was also lost of trust in the government.
It was believed that Saddam Hussain was in Iraq in 2003. He was funding and training terrorist organization as well as arming the country with ***suspected*** WMD's. America later turned the country over to the Iraqi government after an attempt to implement democracy.
Monetary Payments were granted to WWI veterans by congress