In the past week, the last US fighter troops have been drawn down. Now, as ever before in Iraq, there is violence in Iraq. This does not distinguish this country from many of its neighboring states, for example Pakistan. The public opinion in Europe as well as in our country has fallen into a collective amnesia as pertaining to the Iraq war.

(By Joachim Steinhöfel / Translation: Anders Denken)

One should think that in a country like Germany it wouldn’t be so quickly forgotten what it was like to be liberated by the American troops from a genocidal terrorist regime. However, media such as “Radio Hamburg” spoke in their reports (!) last week of the “illegal war in Iraq.” In this program it seems correct in the search for manipulative coverage; not, when it has to do with general subjects of history.

Millions dead from the war with Iran from 1980-1988 that Iraq started, the use of weapons of mass destruction against the population, the attack on Kuwait, Scud rockets on Israel that more than a decade of continuous disregard for binding UN resolutions and the complete collaboration of sanctions by the corrupt UN, the solid belief by the Clinton and Bush administration, and by the greater majority of secret services (including the BND) that Saddam was in possession of weapons of mass destruction, contacts to al-Qaeda.

Those were the realities, when the coalition in March 2003 attacked Iraq and with historical military measures felled the terror regime of Saddam in a lightning fast victory.

The US Congress approved with a considerable majority the employment of violence against Saddam. The majority of Democratic Senators agreed with the resolution just as well (among others, Secretary-of-State Clinton, Senate majority leader Harry Reid, Rockefeller, the former presidential candidate Kerry).

The resolution brings up 22 reasons for the employment of military violence. The presumed possession of weapons of mass destruction was only one of them. Since when does the pacifist community let itself be bothered by facts?

The public opinion was on the side of George W. Bush, the media, however, that of the Congress.

The conflict lasted longer and cost more victims than expected. If it had gone according to opportunists like Harry Reid, who called for a premature pullout and the declaration of the war as a loss, then it would in fact have come to a defeat. More on steinhoefel.de…

(Photo above: They Changed the Middle East – David Howell Petraeus und George W. Bush.)

In the past week, the last US fighter troops have been drawn down. Now, as ever before in Iraq, there is violence in Iraq. This does not distinguish this country from many of its neighboring states, for example Pakistan. The public opinion in Europe as well as in our country has fallen into a ...

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