On March 19, 2003, the United States, along with coalition forces primarily from the United Kingdom, initiates war on Iraq. Just after explosions began to rock Baghdad, Iraq’s capital, U.S. President George W. Bush announced in a televised address, “At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.” President Bush and his advisors built much of their case for war on the specious claim that Iraq, under dictator Saddam Hussein, possessed or was in the process of building weapons of mass destruction.
Hostilities began about 90 minutes after the U.S.-imposed deadline for Saddam Hussein to leave Iraq or face war passed. The first targets, which Bush said were “of military importance,” were hit with Tomahawk cruise missiles from U.S. fighter-bombers and warships stationed in the Persian Gulf. In response to the attacks, Republic of Iraq radio in Baghdad announced, “the evil ones, the enemies of God, the homeland and humanity, have committed the stupidity of aggression against our homeland and people.”
Though Saddam Hussein had declared in early March 2003 that, “it is without doubt that the faithful will be victorious against aggression,” he went into hiding soon after the American invasion, speaking to his people only through an occasional audiotape. Coalition forces were able to topple his regime and capture Iraq’s major cities in just three weeks, sustaining few casualties. President Bush declared the end of major combat operations on May 1, 2003. Despite the defeat of conventional military forces in Iraq, an insurgency has continued an intense guerrilla war in the nation in the years since military victory was announced, resulting in thousands of coalition military, insurgent and civilian deaths.
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GW Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld should have all been war criminals and been in prison.
All should still go.
Rumsfeld is dead, that would be hard to do.
Blair and Howard as well.
Another dark and shameful day in American history.
Yeah, when idiot liberal actor Sean Penn is right and the government is wrong, it is a shameful day.
Actually the conflict began way back in 1990 with Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Between overwatch and sanctions plus military actions against players like Sadr and other independent warlords , the USSA has been Bringing Them Democracy TM for over 30 years.
Madeleine Albright, you may remember, said the slaughter of half million Iraqi children was “worth it.”
The USSA shall reap as it has sown.
EXACTLY, when I was a youngin serving in the USAF in the early 80’s our heavy equipment folks would disappear for 6 months and return and couldn’t tell where/why they were gone…….surprise, 1990 rolls in and there are complete airfields spaced throughout the sandy hills of the middle east just waiting for preplanned war to start.
That day in history lead to me losing 1 former teammate KIA to a roadside bomb and 6 former team members WIA in Iraq over the first four years.
Rest easy Mracek.
ZFG, out.
P.S. A hundred thousand of the goat fuckers werent worth an ounce of one of my teammates. Queue “Masters of War” and hopefully some day we will get our collective heads out of our asses and put those shit bag MIC whores where they belong. May they all suffer the most agonizing terminal diseases that are long, miserable and painful to the point of insanity for the lies they told us and the horrors they fomented.