#20yearsofshame — Public Fediverse posts

(now 20 years ago) Ten years ago, a major American magazine published a bombshell report about the non-existence of Iraq’s WMDs. But it was hardly noticed by a corporate press corps too busy hyping the threat from those non-existent weapons.

The story appeared in the March 3, 2003, issue of #Newsweek–a short piece with the headline “The Defector’s Secrets.” It almost seemed as if the magazine didn’t know what it had on its hands. Or perhaps it did.

Inspectors were told “that after the Gulf War, #Iraq destroyed all its chemical and biological weapons stocks and the missiles to deliver them,” Barry wrote. All that remained were “hidden blueprints, computer disks, microfiches” and production molds. The weapons were destroyed secretly, in order to hide their existence from inspectors, in the hopes of someday resuming production after inspections had finished. The #CIA and MI6 were told the same story, Barry reported, and “a military aide who defected with Kamel… backed Kamel’s assertions about the destruction of #WMD stocks.”
#IraqInvasion #Politics #20yearsOfShame #NeverForget #Bush #Blair #CollinPowel #WarCrime #CrimeAgainstHumanity

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20 years ago, US started the illegal invasion of Iraq, based on lies and manufacture "proof", a crime against humanity that went unpunished.

The architects of the invasion, the ones who lied again and again and those who committed war crime in the 2 decades long invasion of Iraq are all free. Except for a few "bad apples" some who received the presidential pardon from Trump. They all living their happy lives.

The got rich, either during the war, or after it when they wrote books, received 100s of thousands of dollars for speech and interviews justifying their actions or play dumb or forgetful.

The same people are now calling for prosecution of Putin and his criminal foot soldiers for the invasion of Ukraine.

#Politics #Iraq #IraqInvasion #NeverForget #20yearsofShame #Bush #Blair #WarCrime #History

The defining image of the U.S. invasion of Iraq and its actions there. No one knows what happened to the detainee!

#IraqInvasion #20yearsofShame #Politics #NeverForget

20 years later, BBC is whitewashing the crimes of those who lied about Iraq WMDs

It is a disgusting propaganda piece by BBC on the 20th aniversary of the worst crime committed by western nations in modern history.

#Politics #IraqWMDs #IraqLies #Propaganda #20yearsOfShame #IraqInvasion #Bush #Blair #Saddsm #Berlusconi

Abdul and Mohammed Rabbani had spent more than two decades in detention without charges.

The release means there are now 32 detainees still left in #Guantanamo.
#US authorities have released two #Pakistani brothers, Abdul and Mohammed Rabbani, from the military #prison at Guantanamo Bay after over 20 years of detention.

The Rabbani brothers, who were arrested on suspicion of al-Qaida links, arrived in #Pakistan on Friday, officials said.

#inhumanity #20yearsOfShame #CloseGuantanamo #Politics #HumanRights

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