This week marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S.led invasion of Iraq. Then-President George W. Bush and his British counterpart, Tony Blair, signed off on a war based on the myth that Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein harbored weapons of mass destruction.
“From our point of view and from the charter point of view it was illegal,” Annan told the BBC at the time. The war in Iraq would continue for another seven years after that.U.S. soldiers keep their rifles ready as they search surrendered Iraqi soldiers near the southern border city of Safwan, Friday, March 21, 2003.
Soldiers attached to Britain's 3 Army Air Corps patrol the desert around the oil fields of north Ramaila in Iraq, during a sandstorm, March 25, 2003. A U.S. Army soldier walks towards a burning oil well in Iraq's vast southern Rumaila oilfields, March 30, 2003. U.S. engineers moved through the oilfields on Sunday shutting down wellheads in an operation that could take months to complete. Having discovered a cache of arms and a minefield, U.S. troops must tread carefully in their mission to safeguard the region's oilfields, which pumped more than half of Iraq oil exports before the war began.
U.S. Army Stf. Sgt. Chad Touchett, center, relaxes with comrades from A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, following a search in one of Saddam Hussein's palaces damaged after a bombing, in Baghdad, in this April 7, 2003.
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