"A liberated Iraq can show the power of freedom to transform that vital region, by bringing hope and progress into the lives of millions."
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George W. Bush d. 23. Februar 2003.
Det
er nu ti år siden krigen imod Irak blev
påbegyndt med et storstilet angreb på den irakiske hovedstad og
andre af landets tætbefolkede store byer, med enorm beskadigelse af
den civile infrastruktur som forventelig konsekvens. Skabte denne krig, som præsident George W. Bush påstod, rent faktisk noget så rosenrødt som “et
frigjort Irak” der har fyldt millioner af menneskelige tilværelser
med “håb
og fremskridt” eller er sandheden om krigen snarere langt mere
dyster og ildevarslende? Følgende samling af links og videoklip kaster lys over forskellige aspekter af krigen og dens konsekvenser for den irakiske civilbefolkning.
Stephen Zunes: Democrats Share the Blame for the Tragedy of Iraq War.
Juan Cole: What We Did to Iraq.
Patrick Cockburn: The American Legacy in Iraq.
Vijay Prashad: Bombs Over Baghdad.
War Correspondent Discusses Iraq's "Culture of Corruption".
Le Monde Diplomatique: The New Normal in Baghdad.
Dahr Jamail: Iraq: War's Legacy of Cancer.
Joseph Nye: Iraq War Ten Years Later.
“War is essentially an evil thing. Its consequences are not confined to the belligerent states alone, but affect the whole world. To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole [..] the attacker must know that he is doing wrong, and so far from it being unjust to punish him, it would be unjust if his wrong were allowed to go unpunished [..] they must have known that they were acting in defiance of all international law when in complete deliberation they carried out their designs of invasion and aggression.” - Dommerne v. Nürnbergprocessen.
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