A Big War For Oil

The first wave of American bombing of Baghdad at the start of the Iraq War on March 19, 2003.AFPInam Ahmed and Shakhawat LitonThis month 15 years ago, an unjust and illegal war was unleashed on Iraq by the US-led coalition that has fundamentally changed the world and made it even more risky. This most important event in modern time has fragmented the whole Arab land, obliterated much of its history and culture and changed lives for tens of millions, probably forever.So lets.see.

The Daily Star revisits this war on Iraq from today with a 12-part series.The council members sat grim faced in the chamber of the UN Security Council. On the screen in front of them was projected an image with the words:

IRAQ: FAILING TO DISARM: Denial and Deception.Words like “accumulation of facts and disturbing patterns of behaviour” boomed in the chamber. The date was February 5, 2003. The speaker, US secretary of state General Colin Powell.Months before, the US had started to look for the casus belli, a justification of war, to invade Iraq and bring about a “regime change”, get rid of Saddam Hussein. Despite US efforts, western allies were not convinced that Iraq had WMDs, or it hadany intentions of attacking Western interests or the United States. Long time US allies like the governments of France, Germany and New Zealand argued there were no evidences to support US claims.so it is so much terible.There were worldwide protests and anti-war rallies against the invasion of Iraq.what happends?

The largest ever anti-war rally of three million people, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, was held in Rome. Between 3 January and 12 April, 2003, 36 million people across the globe took part in 3,000 protests against the Iraq war, according to French academic Dominic Reynié.On that day, in the UN Security Council, the US was determinedto prove its cause.it so.much dangerous. This wasits presentation before the worldcommunity to persuade them that Saddam Hussein was amassing WMD,Weapons of Mass Destruction, and was seeking to acquire nuclear capabilities to attack western interests. As Colin Powellpointed out pictures on the screen claiming those to be of biological weapons production facilities on wheels to escape UN inspectors, the whole world listened to his speech full of charged words.Colin Powell was to address the press after his presentation outside the Security Council chamber where a tapestry version of one of the world's greatest anti-war arts, the “Guernica” by Pablo Picasso hung on the wall. The day before the presentation, the “Guernica” was covered up with a blue curtain printed with UN logo.UN officials denied they were intentionally hiding the piece of art that made a symbolic statement about the horrors of war and the art of diplomacy. But it was a statement after all. That diplomacy had lost, war had won.Colin Powell stated during his presentation: “We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction; he's determined to make more. Given Saddam Hussein's history of aggression ... given what we know of his terrorist associations and given his determination to exact revenge on those who oppose him, should we take the risk that he will not some day use these weapons at a time and the placeand in the manner of his choosing at a time when the world is ina much weaker position to respond? The United States will not and cannot run that risk to the American people. Leaving Saddam Hussein in possession of weapons of mass destruction for a few more months or years is not an option, not in a post–September 11 world.”very intermig