Twenty years ago this month, the United States began a war in Iraq based on false claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
According to a March 20 report from Democracy Now, which featured Iraqi writers Sinan Antoon and Feurat Alani, that war left behind up to 2 million Iraqi people dead, mostly civilians; 8 million more driven from their homes; 1.2 million internally displaced; 4 million orphans; babies born in Fallujah deformed by depleted uranium’s use in combat, and an increased incidence of cancer among the Iraqi people at large. Even The New York Times has admitted that Iraq is a country of lost hopes.
Similar horrors continue in Ukraine. If it was right for the International Criminal Court to indict Russian President Vladimir Putin as a war criminal, then the same standard applies to George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice and to those members of Congress who knowingly went along with the official Iraq story. In that case, neither Republicans nor Democrats in America have clean hands.
John Raby
Scarborough
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