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B. Occupation: Americas Duties and Responsibilities under International Law

Having quickly defeated the Iraqi army and driven Saddam Hussein from power and into hiding, the United States faced new duties and responsibilities as an occupying power. According to Nicholas Wheeler,
Preoccupation with the motives of the interveners takes the intervening state as the referent object for analysis rather than the victims who are rescued as a consequence of the use of force. According to this thinking, placing the victims at the center of the analysis, as opposed to the interveners, leads to a different emphasis on the importance of motives in judging the humanitarian credentials of the interveners. [3]
The United States occupation of Iraq was legitimated by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1483, an act that established the Coalition Provisional Authority, or CPA, as the states government. Oddly for an invasion that was now being justified almost completely in humanitarian terms, Resolution 1483 gave the CPA an almost free hand in the administration of the conquered territory, abolishing the Oil for Food Program, and with it, virtually all other forms of international oversight to which Iraq had previously been subject. [4] While granting the United States and its

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