How did the war start, and should we have been at war with Iraq?

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How did the war start, and should we have been at war with Iraq?

Thousands of protest took place in Britain before the war, as military action began in Iraq. School students disrupted many city centres stopping traffic. Four thousand school students massed in Parliament Square in London. In Liverpool, police were called to remove protestors including many school children who blocked the Mersey tunnel. Many hundreds of schools were affected across the UK.

How did it come to this, and so quickly?

History can be a roller coaster ride. But for all the markers along the way, it is still hard to understand how in 18 short months the ride has led from Osama Bin Laden to Saddam Hussein; from a nightmarish day of terrorist attacks in the US to an unprovoked war against a country that had nothing to do with those attacks.

On September 11 America had the sympathy of the world.

Now, as 200,000 of its troops invaded and took over Iraq, with 40,000 plus form its faithful ally Britain alongside, attitudes have been transformed.

America or more accurately, the people who run America have rarely been so mistrusted, disliked or even hated.

The countdown to war started from September 11, the two hijacked planes that crashed into the world trade centres was just the beginning as Bush vowed to punish those responsible.

Then Osama Bin Laden was blamed for September 11 attacks, Afghanistan was told to hand him over or there would be war, there was war.

Further on, in Bush’s state of union speech he named Iraq, North Korea and Iran as ‘axis of evil’ two days before the ‘anti terrorist’ operation in Philippines.

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Then the US scare mongering in East Africa (a strategic US military post) about ‘possible’ new terrorist threats that more probably are to do with US security services.  

After Osama Bin Laden was supposedly killed in Afghanistan he is now alive and kicking according to US and Pakistani sources.

After Saddam refusing to hand his weapons of mass destruction over, war in Iraq began.

The above might seem as they have nothing in common and are unimportant, but they add to the required myth necessary to support ‘war on terrorism’ to distract people away form the US led ...

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