The war was launched on a falsehood.
Twenty years ago, the U.S. set in motion the most disastrous foreign policy blunder in its history. On March 19, 2003, 160,000 American and British troops, accompanied by auxiliary detachments from Australia and Poland, invaded Iraq.
How did liberal democracies, led by well-meaning representatives guided by eminent academics and foreign policy specialists, end up inflicting such a calamity on the human race? The invasion triggered a monstrous civil war, with all the attendant horrors: malnutrition, sexual assault, exile. Some 4.4 million Iraqis became refugees, and, according to a Lancet study, 601,000 lost their lives.
The trouble was that the war was launched on a falsehood. It was never about hidden nuclear weapons. On the eve of the invasion, the IAEA reported that it had “found no evidence or plausible indication of the revival of a nuclear weapons program in Iraq.” Nor was it about 9/11. Claims by U.S. intelligence of a link between Saddam’s secular regime and al Qaeda were pure fabrication.
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