Today is not only the first day of Spring, but the Anniversary of the the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003. A war the was a lie, unjustified, and a total destabilizing of the Mideast by the Americans.
#USImperialism
#usterrorists
#IraqWar
#iraq2003
#Iraq20years
#IraqInvasion
#OTD 20 years ago, the invasion of #Iraq started. CND remembers the millions of victims killed, injured, and displaced due to an illegal war based on lies.
The criminal decision to invade led to disastrous consequences that must never be repeated. #Iraq20Years
@iraq Here are the links to their open letters, both published in @thenation
Jules Feiffer: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/mr-feiffer-regrets/
Sharon Olds: https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/open-letter-laura-bush/
@iraq A few years later, in 2005, poet Sharon Olds turned down an invitation to the same annual event, also in protest of the #Iraq War as well as the extraordinary rendition program. She wrote to Laura Bush: “I thought of the clean linens at your table, the shining knives and the flames of the candles, and I could not stomach it.”
Twenty years ago this month, a US-led coalition invaded @iraq
A few months prior, in October 2002, cartoonist Jules Feiffer turned down an invitation to the White House in protest. His colleagues, to his dismay, didn’t. “They felt we were going to [invade] anyhow so what’s the use…how easily this president, whom none of these people respect, is allowed to get away with it.”
"The Establishment did everything it could to prevent the march and rally going ahead, but we refused to be deterred and with political determination and huge backing we were victorious." #Iraq20years
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/millions-across-globe-protested-we-spoke-global-majority
David Sebelius
CND UK
Arbella Bet-Shlimon