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US invasion of Iraq was genocidal war: Peace activist
The US
invasion of Iraq was a “genocidal war” and a”crime against humanity”
perpetrated by the administration of George W. Bush to expand US
imperialism, an anti-war activist in California says.
Former US
vice president Dick Cheney‘s recent remarks that he was right to support
the invasion of Iraq under Bush is based on fabricated lies that former
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction,
Ralph Schoenman told Press TV on Thursday.
“At least two million people were killed by this genocidal war of
Cheney and imperialism and the basis of it was a protracted lie,”
schoenman said.
“The human cost of this is unspeakable because
the so-called shock and awe saturation bombing that was inflicted upon
Iraq destroyed a modern society and devastated the entire city of
Baghdad and indeed created a pandemic of birth defects from the nature
of weaponry that was used by the United States on the people of Iraq,”
he added.
During an interview with Fox New on Wednesday, Cheney defended the invasion and occupation of Iraq.
"Well if people say, Dick Cheney was wrong about Iraq, why should they
listen to you on Iran [nuclear program]?" asked Juan Williams, a
commentator for Fox News and columnist for The Hill newspaper.
"Because I was right about Iraq," Cheney responded.
"Our objective was to take down Saddam Hussein. We did it. The world's a much better place without him," he added.
Schoenman said Saddam Hussein was a “creature” of US intelligence
agencies and used as a pretext to attack Iraq. “He was an operative of
the Central Intelligence Agency, he was their man in Baghdad for 27
years.”
In 2003, Bush ordered the invasion of Iraq under the
pretext that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. In
October 2004, however, a CIA report revealed that Saddam did not have
any active WMD program at the time of the invasion.
Cheney, one
of the key architects of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, has increased his
criticism of the Obama administration’s foreign policy in recent
months. White House officials have shrugged off Cheney’s criticism and
have faulted him for misjudgments on the Iraq war.a
