March 18th 2003 saw the illegal invasion of Iraq by the US-led coalition.
The pretext for the invasion was
1.Iraq had WMD
2.Iraq played a role in the September 11th 2001 attacks on WTC.
3.Iraq had violated UN Security mandates.
No WMD were ever found in Iraq, since March 2003
No paperwork supporting a WMD project was found in Iraq since March 2003.
No evidence of any support for 9/11 has been found in Iraq since March 2003.
In the three years since, we have had Abu Ghuraib, the theft of oil from Iraq, the use of chemical weapons by the US-led coalition at Fallujah.
We have had the death of 100,000 Iraqi's from March 2003-September 2004
and an unquantified number of Iraqi deaths since September 2004 to now.
We have also had the regrouping of Al Qaeda in Iraq and their alliance with Iraq guerilla fighters.
In the meantime, the perpetrators of September 11th attack remain at liberty.
Iraq is now in a state of de-facto civil war.
No agreement has been reached on the formation of a goverment - no effective goverment exists in many of the provinces throughout Iraq.
Shia and Sunni death squads are engaged in atrocities throughout Iraq as the coalition troops remain hunkered in their barracks, unable (unwilling?) to stop the slide in to lawlessness.
"Hearts and minds", "shock and awe" are but soundbites in the cacophony of soundbites that replace solid accountable policies and accountability.
The lies that were perpetrated in the runup to this war - have been exposed for what they are.
Iraq has been a disaster for the coalition : so what.
More importantly, it's been a tragedy for a great nation which was once the cradle of civilisation.
Three years on.
The pretext for the invasion was
1.Iraq had WMD
2.Iraq played a role in the September 11th 2001 attacks on WTC.
3.Iraq had violated UN Security mandates.
No WMD were ever found in Iraq, since March 2003
No paperwork supporting a WMD project was found in Iraq since March 2003.
No evidence of any support for 9/11 has been found in Iraq since March 2003.
In the three years since, we have had Abu Ghuraib, the theft of oil from Iraq, the use of chemical weapons by the US-led coalition at Fallujah.
We have had the death of 100,000 Iraqi's from March 2003-September 2004
and an unquantified number of Iraqi deaths since September 2004 to now.
We have also had the regrouping of Al Qaeda in Iraq and their alliance with Iraq guerilla fighters.
In the meantime, the perpetrators of September 11th attack remain at liberty.
Iraq is now in a state of de-facto civil war.
No agreement has been reached on the formation of a goverment - no effective goverment exists in many of the provinces throughout Iraq.
Shia and Sunni death squads are engaged in atrocities throughout Iraq as the coalition troops remain hunkered in their barracks, unable (unwilling?) to stop the slide in to lawlessness.
"Hearts and minds", "shock and awe" are but soundbites in the cacophony of soundbites that replace solid accountable policies and accountability.
The lies that were perpetrated in the runup to this war - have been exposed for what they are.
Iraq has been a disaster for the coalition : so what.
More importantly, it's been a tragedy for a great nation which was once the cradle of civilisation.
Three years on.