KATA KUCHA
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- Apr 20, 2013
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The US and its allies invaded Iraq on 20 March 2003 under the pretext of weapons of mass destruction. Then US president, George W.Bush, and the UK Prime minister , Tony Blair, spearheaded tight diplomatic efforts to gather support for the war, followed by a longer phase of fighting that is still grappling the country with no end in sight to the violence and bloodshed.
Despite all the propaganda fuss that weapons of mass destruction possessed by the former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein pose a threat to world security, no such weapons were found after the overthrow of Saddam.
Former secretary of state, Collin Powell, under the Bush administration, who declared war on Iraq in 2003 told Al Jazeera last in 2013 that he regrets providing misleading intelligence that led to the war.
More than 11 years into the war, Hillary Clinton, former US secretary of state under Barack Obama, says she got it all wrong when she voted as a senator to authorize the war in Iraq. In her soon-to-be released book, Clinton says her mistake became more painful every time she sent a condolence letter as a senator to a family that lost a son or a daughter in the war.
The war in Iraq has claimed the lives of more than one million Iraqis. Despite that, thousands of the US soldiers have fallen victim to the war, add to this, hundreds of others from the allied countries that have had contribution to the war. The countrys infrastructure is ruined, insecurity prevails and , but no weapons of mass destruction has been found.
Bush and Blair are accused of war crimes over the major role they played in the ongoing ordeal. But they are at large
1-Why should the Iraqis pay the price for the aspirations of Bush and Blair?
2-Should Bush and Blair stand trial for the war crimes in Iraq?
3-Is it enough to express remorse as a compensation for the plight of millions of war-stricken people?
4-What about the sufferings of the US families who have lost their soldiers in the war?
