20 years ago, the USA launched its invasion of Iraq. It was based on the assumption that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, which later turned out to be false. DW's matvhein reports on the impact this breach of international law still has today.
in shootings, bombings, or other attacks. The violence is an echo of the war in Iraq, which the United States launched in the overnight hours of March 19-20, 2003.
From the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, George W. Bush declared fighting over in Iraq, calling it 'one victory in a war on terror'To that point, the US and its allies had dropped 29,166 bombs and rockets, according to the Pentagon. Large parts of Iraq's infrastructure lay in ruins. More than 7,000 civilians were killed, according to Iraq Body Count, a British NGO.
There was no case for self-defense, Ambos added. Then-Secretary General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, shared this view calling the war in Iraq illegal under international law. There were also incidents of violence against civilians. US Marines shot and killed 24 unarmed people in 2005 in Haditha, a city in west-central Iraq. In Baghdad in 2007, employees of the private, US security contractor, Blackwater, opened fire on a crowd, killing 17 people. Wikileaks released a video of a US attack helicopter firing on civilians, killing 12 people that included a Reuters journalist.
The high point of this public influence campaign came on February 5, 2003, when then US Secretary of State Colin Powell went to the United Nations to present"evidence" of Iraq's WMD programs, including efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. That era coincided with the peak of America's post-Cold War power, which Harvard's Walt views as at odds with the"rules-based world order" that the US otherwise champions.
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