A year after the US-British invasion of Iraq the reasons given to justify it have collapsed: Saddam Hussein didn’t have weapons of mass destruction of either the chemical or biological kind. The ones which the USA had given him had been used up against Kurds and Shiites at the end of the first Gulf War in 1991.

A year after the US-British invasion of Iraq the reasons given to justify it have collapsed: Saddam Hussein didn’t have weapons of mass destruction of either the chemical or biological kind. The ones which the USA had given him had been used up against Kurds and Shiites at the end of the first Gulf War in 1991. This completely confirms that the reasons were lies, political spin aimed at convincing a sceptical public. Equally false and ideologically motivated was the supposed desire of the invading governments to establish democracy in Iraq.

The real reasons for the invasion – we will never tire of repeating – are linked to the USA’s need to control energy resources and means of transporting commodities like oil: this is the precondition for benefiting from the enormous financial revenue which allows the USA to survive despite having the biggest trade deficit in the world. For these real material reasons the USA and the UK have not hesitated to indulge in mass disinformation to try to fool their citizens, to subjugate the entire press, and to make war with the their oversized military apparatuses against a state which rapidly collapsed leaving its population to suffer the pitiless tragedy of war.

Those who think that “the lies of democracy can become reality