Iraq Invasion – Anniversary of The Biggest Terrorist Attack in Modern History
By Felicity Arbuthnot.
Since terrorism’s tragedy is again in the news, it is timely to revisit
perhaps one of the biggest acts of terrorism in modern history – the
illegal invasion and destruction – ongoing – of Iraq.
March 20th marked the thirteenth anniversary of an action resulting in the equivalent of a Paris, Brussels, London 7th July 2005, often multiple times daily in Iraq ever since. As for 11th September 2001, there has frequently been that death toll and heart break every several weeks, also ongoing.
America and Britain have arguably engaged in and generated the legacy
of one of the longest recorded attacks of terrorism since World War
Two.
There are no minutes silences or Eiffel Tower bathed in the colours
of the Iraqi flag – or indeed those of the other ongoing Western
engineered catastrophes, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, or for the US-UK
complicity in the human carnage in Yemen, or for the forty three dead
and two hundred and thirty nine injured in Beirut in November,
reportedly by ISIS, the day before the Paris attack.
The Eiffel Tower did not display the Russian colours after ISIS
claimed the October 2015 crash of a Russian airliner after leaving from
Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh airport, the result they stated of a bomb they
placed, killing all two hundred and twenty four passengers. ISIS mass
murders in Africa are mostly ignored.
Since ISIS was spawned by the Iraq “liberation” (“Operation Iraqi
Liberation” – OIL) it is worth revisiting Tony Blair’s speech to
Parliament on 20th March 2003, the day of the invasion. (1)
