THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL
The topic for the United Nations Security Council is “Iraq War: A UN failure?” This committee shall be in session in the year 2004, after David Kay steps down from the Iraq Survey Group and openly declares,"I don't think they existed ... I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the '90s.", reffering to the suspected Iraqi possession of weapons of mass destruction which was cited as the main reason for US invasion of Iraq by the then president George Bush.
The US-Iraq squabble but soon led to world friction, killing thousands of thousands of people across the continent. Saddam Hussein led a brutal dictatorship of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. In 1990, he invaded and occupied the nation of Kuwait for six months until being expelled by an international coalition. For the next several years Hussein showed varying degrees of contempt for the international terms agreed to at the end of the war, namely a "no-fly zone" over much of the country, international inspections of suspected arms sites, and sanctions. In 2003, an American-led coalition invaded Iraq and overthrew the Hussein government.Building the Coalition:President Bush put forward a number of rationales for invading Iraq. These included: violations of U.N. Security Council resolutions, atrocities committed by Hussein against his people, and the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) which posed an immediate threat to the U.S. and the world. The U.S. claimed to have intelligence which proved the existence of the WMD and asked the U.N. Security Council to authorize an attack. The council did not.
Instead, the U.S. and the United Kingdom enlisted 29 other countries in a "coalition of the willing" to support and carry out the invasion launched in March 2003.
The War had a miserable impact not only on the men fighting the war on either sides, but also on innocent civilians in Iraq. Around 15000 Iraqi insurgents were killed and thousands of thousands of Iraqi insurgents and civilians killed and wounded. 848 US soldiers were killed. Total insurgent attacks count upto 26,496.
The US reasons of invasion, were, obviously not as transparent as they wanted it to seem to be. A study of the historical background of the country, which dates back to World War 1 throws some light on the brutal war that brought the world to the verge of a third world war. These include:
The oil history in Iraq: Britain took the lion's share of Iraq's oil by gaining military control of the country during World War I. The powerful Iraq Petroleum Company, in which US and French interests held minority positions, kept a monopoly of Iraq's oil sector until nationalization in 1972. British Colinialism and Repression in Iraq: Britain set up a colonial regime in Iraq after a long military campaign during World War I. In response to Iraqi resistance, British forces battled for over a decade to pacify the country, using airplanes, armored cars, firebombs and mustard gas. Winston Churchill, as responsible cabinet minister in the early years, saw Iraq as an experiment in high-technology colonial control.
US-British support for Hussein: US intelligence helped Saddam's Ba`ath Party seize power for the first time in 1963. In the 1980s, the US and Britain gave Saddam arms, money, satellite intelligence, military advisors and even chemical & bio-weapon precursors.
The Gulf War: US high-pressure tactics in the Security Council lined up support for the war that ousted Iraq from Kuwait. A punishing air campaign, followed by years of sanctions, took a heavy toll on civilians. Though Council resolutions focused on weapons, and said nothing about regime-change, the US and UK announced in 1991 that their policy aimed at nothing less than overthrowing Saddam Hussein.
Are the US invasions of invasion darker than what it seems? Or did Saddam Hussein really aim for world conquest? Do thousands of innocent lives lost mean nothing to the world fraternity?
There are millions of questions to be resolved.
The world in is turmoil. Unite. For a better World.
Because. Together We Rise.
The topic for the United Nations Security Council is “Iraq War: A UN failure?” This committee shall be in session in the year 2004, after David Kay steps down from the Iraq Survey Group and openly declares,"I don't think they existed ... I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the '90s.", reffering to the suspected Iraqi possession of weapons of mass destruction which was cited as the main reason for US invasion of Iraq by the then president George Bush.
The US-Iraq squabble but soon led to world friction, killing thousands of thousands of people across the continent. Saddam Hussein led a brutal dictatorship of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. In 1990, he invaded and occupied the nation of Kuwait for six months until being expelled by an international coalition. For the next several years Hussein showed varying degrees of contempt for the international terms agreed to at the end of the war, namely a "no-fly zone" over much of the country, international inspections of suspected arms sites, and sanctions. In 2003, an American-led coalition invaded Iraq and overthrew the Hussein government.Building the Coalition:President Bush put forward a number of rationales for invading Iraq. These included: violations of U.N. Security Council resolutions, atrocities committed by Hussein against his people, and the manufacture of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) which posed an immediate threat to the U.S. and the world. The U.S. claimed to have intelligence which proved the existence of the WMD and asked the U.N. Security Council to authorize an attack. The council did not.
Instead, the U.S. and the United Kingdom enlisted 29 other countries in a "coalition of the willing" to support and carry out the invasion launched in March 2003.
The War had a miserable impact not only on the men fighting the war on either sides, but also on innocent civilians in Iraq. Around 15000 Iraqi insurgents were killed and thousands of thousands of Iraqi insurgents and civilians killed and wounded. 848 US soldiers were killed. Total insurgent attacks count upto 26,496.
The US reasons of invasion, were, obviously not as transparent as they wanted it to seem to be. A study of the historical background of the country, which dates back to World War 1 throws some light on the brutal war that brought the world to the verge of a third world war. These include:
The oil history in Iraq: Britain took the lion's share of Iraq's oil by gaining military control of the country during World War I. The powerful Iraq Petroleum Company, in which US and French interests held minority positions, kept a monopoly of Iraq's oil sector until nationalization in 1972. British Colinialism and Repression in Iraq: Britain set up a colonial regime in Iraq after a long military campaign during World War I. In response to Iraqi resistance, British forces battled for over a decade to pacify the country, using airplanes, armored cars, firebombs and mustard gas. Winston Churchill, as responsible cabinet minister in the early years, saw Iraq as an experiment in high-technology colonial control.
US-British support for Hussein: US intelligence helped Saddam's Ba`ath Party seize power for the first time in 1963. In the 1980s, the US and Britain gave Saddam arms, money, satellite intelligence, military advisors and even chemical & bio-weapon precursors.
The Gulf War: US high-pressure tactics in the Security Council lined up support for the war that ousted Iraq from Kuwait. A punishing air campaign, followed by years of sanctions, took a heavy toll on civilians. Though Council resolutions focused on weapons, and said nothing about regime-change, the US and UK announced in 1991 that their policy aimed at nothing less than overthrowing Saddam Hussein.
Are the US invasions of invasion darker than what it seems? Or did Saddam Hussein really aim for world conquest? Do thousands of innocent lives lost mean nothing to the world fraternity?
There are millions of questions to be resolved.
The world in is turmoil. Unite. For a better World.
Because. Together We Rise.