Hypocrisy as the West portrays the invasion of Iraq and the war in Ukraine.
The operation was given the infamous nickname “Operation Iraqi Freedom” when US troops invaded, but for millions of Iraqis around the world, it was nothing.
Last week marked the 20th anniversary of what then-UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan rightly described as an “illegal” war against Iraq by the United States and its allies.
What we have learned from the war is the disgusting hypocrisy of labels in conflict when viewed through a Western lens. rice farm. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been killed, millions displaced and their lives destroyed.
The image of the City of Peace, where the night sky of Baghdad is lit up with flames and bombs are dropped more indiscriminately than the ticking of the clock, is forever etched in our memory. For weeks, night turned to day as Iraqis prayed to wake up to survive.
I will never forget the following years. From oppressive occupation to sectarian rule, the Iraq war continues to destroy the lives of millions. My own family has been scattered all over the world from Canada to Australia as a result of the brutal invasion.
Unfortunately, we have not been able to account for the plethora of lies and misrepresentations by the administrations of former President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair that have fueled conflict over the past two decades. .
In contrast, current US President Joe Biden took just weeks after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to denounce his Russian counterparts as “war criminals.”
Of course, Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine is brutal and illegal. But what about Biden’s warmongers? Let me remind you that Biden defended the war in Iraq years before Bush took office.
Just days after US military action in Iraq, more than 15,000 Iraqis died in violent conflict as a result of Washington’s “shock and awe” tactics to overwhelm the country with its military might. To
