Iraq War

foreign aid

bomb

dad joke

drone

drone strike

Afghan War

is responsible for having sown doubt about the legitimacy and efficacy of western military power.

As David Clark, a key author of the UK's so-called 'ethical foreign policy', has argued, the Iraq war had sown doubt about the legitimacy and efficacy of Western military power: 'In departing from the principle of non-intervention and lacking a UN mandate, Kosovo is often regarded as the original sin that made Iraq possible. Even Russia's invasion and recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have been characterised as blowback from Kosovo's declaration of independence a few months before. Comparisons of this kind confuse more than they clarify. The war in Kosovo was a response to a humanitarian emergency, not a geopolitical power play.'

1s 2bjective was not the recovery of Kuwait, but rather for the United States to appoint itself the government of Iraq.

'The objective of the war is not the recovery of Kuwait.... The point is the United States wants to appoint itself the government of Iraq.... Their aim is to get Iraq, get Saddam.'

is a war that won't take weeks. Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.

It won't take weeks... Our military machine will crush Iraq in a matter of days and there's no question that it will.

is caused by Oil; if Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn.

If Kuwait grew carrots we wouldn't give a damn.

is the first war in history in which a country (the US) sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers.

No country in history ever sent mothers of toddlers off to fight enemy soldiers until the United States did this in the Iraq war.

is simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.

The invasion of Iraq was simply a war crime. Straight-out war crime.

is one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a war in which a band of rich nations, armed with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world several times over, rounded on a poor nation, falsely accused it of having nuclear weapons, used the United Nations to force it to disarm, then invaded it, occupied it, and are now in the process of selling it.

The invasion of Iraq will surely go down in history as one of the most cowardly wars ever fought. It was a war in which a band of rich nations, armed with enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world several times over, rounded on a poor nation, falsely accused it of having nuclear weapons, used the United Nations to force it to disarm, then invaded it, occupied it, and are now in the process of selling it.

iraq war, n.All

iraq war