‘How many crimes has your country committed in Iraq? How many crimes have everyone else who is so vocal today committed in Iraq and Afghanistan? Have you arrested them?’
-South Africa’s🇿🇦 ANC General Secretary @MbalulaFikile TORCHES BBC reporter for criticising SA’s neutrality on Russia vs NATO in Ukraine
The US remains confused as to why 49 out of 54 countries did not listen to its demands to not attend the Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg, yet fails to understand this opinion is shared widely across the African continent
As we look to hold Russia accountable for invading Ukraine, let’s recall that US post 9/11 wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen & Pakistan caused at least 4.5 million deaths and displaced 38 to 60 million people, with 7.6 million children starving. https://t.co/9f4ax7Gewc
20 years ago, the U.S.-led coalition invaded Iraq and unleashed chaos throughout the country. 20 years on, Iraq remains struggling to stand on its feet after being ravaged in the name of democracy. Check out the timeline of the Iraq war and understand what this war was all about.
"I gave my heart and soul to stop you committing the disaster that you did commit in invading Iraq, and I told the world that your case for the war was a pack of lies." @georgegalloway#Iraq20YearsOn#NoWMD
20 years after the crime, war criminals like Bush and Blair are free, delicately humanised, solemnly listened to, and even revered, while Julian Assange, who published information about their crimes, is cursed, spied on, imprisoned, and ignored.
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“It’s Important to draw on the tradition of antiwar and anti-imperialism activism, that the next time they try these operations, we are out there and stopping them in every way possible” @Lowkey0nline#Iraq20YearsOn#IraqWar
Super excited to share my contribution to the debate about Iraq, 20 years after the country was invaded by American-Anglo forces.
I shine the light on an little known casualty: #Iraq’s TV Archive
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INTERVIEW: This has been a massively destructive two decades of human history, says rapper Lowkey on the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War Follow @MoatsTV@Lowkey0nline https://t.co/qOsI7ZzTvy
Stop Calling The Iraq War A 'Mistake'
When you make a mistake, you make changes to ensure that mistake is not repeated. Nobody responsible for that invasion suffered any consequences of any kind, and zero policy changes were made.
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A defining moment in our understanding of the Iraq war - The 'Collateral Murder' gunning down of civilians including 2 @Reuters journalists by US forces released by Julian Assange and WikiLeaks in 2010 https://t.co/GTT00ttQMp
A week before the invasion of Iraq, the largest no-bid contract in US history was awarded to Halliburton subsidiary Kellog Brown and Root, known as "Restore Iraqi Oil."
The vice president of the US, Dick Cheney, had previously been the head of Halliburton for 6 years.
'Leaked UK report damns Iraq war planning | Julian Assange [2008]
'Report written in late 2006, damns UK and US war planning which "ran counter to potential Geneva Convention obligations" and lead directly to the post invasion collapse of Iraqi society'
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