POLITICAL SCIENCE

The validity of the allegations regarding Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction



The validity of the allegations regarding Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction

Introduction

For the first invasion of Iraq (1991), America used a number of excuses. The US government adapted the propaganda that Iraq invaded the independent state of Kuwait; Saddam Hussein produces nuclear weapons and intends to use it against US. Whereas, Kuwait was for centuries part of Iraq, and only the British imperialists tore his power in the 1920's. In the 20th century, following the policy of "divide and conquer" no country in that region recognized that policy. Iraq's plans to produce nuclear weapons were in their infancy; under such a pretext to bomb most of the world. Saddam's intention to attack America, of course, was pure invention. US believed that Iraq did not want to start peace talks with Kuwait and was not willing to withdraw its troops. In actuality, when America attacked Iraq, the peace talks were already underway, and the Iraqi army left Kuwait. It is a world known fact that until 1991, America provided the weapons for Hussein's war with Iran, Kuwait and the uprisings in the country, but the propaganda by the US stated that the Iraqi army was using weapons of mass destruction, and that Iraq was going to attack Saudi Arabia. Till today evidence has been unable to prove that the propaganda was true (Cordesman, 2003).

The most surprising thing that was observed was that the weapons of mass destruction do not exist in Iraq or in Saudi Arabia, and the rumors are only in the United States. According to the US government of that time there was no such thing as democracy in Iraq, but the whole world knew that the Americans themselves brought Saddam in power, and then used it as an excuse to attack. It was the BND informant that triggered the war in Iraq. The Iraqis told the BND Rafed Aljanabi lies about weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. used the unaudited statements, to justify the war. Rafed Aljanabi wanted to overthrow Saddam Hussein. So he lied and told the BND of mobile biological weapons labs in Iraq. He was the star witness for the CIA. Rafed Aljanabi acted under the code name "Curveball" as the source for the Americans to justify the Iraq war in 2003. His untested tales of weapons of mass destruction against the BND have been presented as fact. He says himself that, "I did not want a war". The last excuse of Bush stated that, “Saddam has had the knowledge, materials and the means and the intention to build weapons of mass destruction” (www.uspolitics.about.com).

Discussion

A huge role in shaping public opinion in the United States, which supports first war against Iraq, played 'telekadry', where the 15-year-old girl who was portrayed as a Kuwaiti refugee, told me that she had seen with my own eyes how Iraqi soldiers pulled out 312 of the Kuwaiti-babies hospital, and put them on the concrete floor ...