|   It was a war which, in US President George W. Bush's words, was "to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger". It was also a war that provoked worldwide dissent, had no UN mandate and whose basic premise-the presence of WMDs in Saddam Hussein's Iraq-fell flat. The US-led war that began on March 20 ended in less than a month and left in its wake an unprecedented number of coalition soldiers dead. It took eight more months for the US to pin down the Iraqi dictator in a spider hole in Tikrit on December 13, keeping alive the festering wound that their presence in Iraq has now become. "This will not be a campaign of half measures, and we will accept no outcome except victory."
US President George W. Bush |
CURRENT ISSUE JANUARY 05, 2004
That the US would attack Iraq was not believed, least of all, by Saddam Hussein, until Baghdad went up in flames. Following Coalition Forces occupation, the discovery of mass graves of Shiites (below) allegedly killed by Saddam's regime was cold testimony to his ruthlessness. It is also a fearful pointer to the future of Iraq. Operation Iraqi Freedom may have freed the nation from Saddam but Freedom, in every sense of the word, remains elusive-like the WMDs.
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