US used "false pretext" to invade Iraq in 2003, outgoing UN nuclear chief El baradei says

Nov 2, 2009

New York - Outgoing UN nuclear watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei criticized the United States on Monday for using a 'false pretext' to invade Iraq, costing 'the lives of possibly hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians.'

ElBaradei is stepping down from the top position at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna after 12 years and felt less constraint in criticizing the US. He said Iraq and North Korea were two cases of suspected nuclear proliferation in the 1990s.

'I will always lament the fact that a tragic war was launched in Iraq,' he said in a last address to the UN General Assembly.

'This was done on the basis of false pretext, without the authorization of the UN Security Council,' he said.

He said the IAEA and UN weapons inspectors had found 'no evidence' that Iraq's nuclear programmes involved production of weapons of mass destruction.

'It gives me no consolation that the agency (IAEA)'s findings were subsequently vindicated,' he said, implying that the US military campaign in Iraq had caused high civilians casualties.


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But when it became apparent that the Security Council was going to be sticklers about the fact that none of those dreaded weapons of mass destruction had actually been, you know, found, Bush disregarded his promise and launched his invasion anyway. Fortunately, none of the "librul" media outlets had the bad taste to worry overmuch about that, and nobody ever asked Commander Bunnypants about his broken promise. But, boy, did they get a lot of pretty pictures to dazzle the populace from Shock and Awe! Too bad about the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi corpses, but it was nothing personal. Just bidness.

I sure hope nobody calls Bush a mass murderer, or suggests that the media were complicit in a naked crime of aggression against humanity. It would be a major buzzkill at the next Washington cocktail party.

empire and hegemony for lagniappe. Who would have ever thunk the US, the guys wearing the white hats, would commence a war of aggression on false pretenses? :P

were removed from the weapon's inspectors report to the UN, and that there were other copies made. I thought at the time that would be a big deal ........ unfortunately it was basically ignored, like all the other sneaky deeds, nothing was going to stop his PNAC invasion. They didn't think twice about lying to the UN or the world to start their bloodbath.

http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/3-us-illegally-removes-pages-from-iraq-un-report/

we cannot help those who died, but we can help those left behind.

:cry:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6856683&mesg_id=6856683

"...According to the Iraqi Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs’ January 2008 Report, 4.5 million Iraqi children have been made orphans...

What has caused this catastrophe? What has happened to the parents of these millions of orphans? What kind of disaster could have resulted in 4.5 million orphans in a country with a total population of 28 million as of 2008?

In proportion to the US population of 310 million, this would mean the equivalent of 19.3 million US orphans. That’s the size of the combined populations, all ages, of our six biggest cities, New York, LA, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, and Philadelphia, all rendered orphans.

What would Americans think and feel if this was happening to our country and our people? How angry would we be? How tolerant would we be of our occupiers responsible for this ongoing calamity?