Pars Today

Pars Today - The US invasion of Iraq and the occupation of this country in 2003 took place on the pretext of Iraq's alleged efforts to acquire weapons of mass destruction and its links to terrorist groups; claims in which the Israelis played a fundamental role in fueling them.

According to the published data, Israel and the Zionist lobby AIPAC in the US were the main factors in encouraging George Bush, the President of the United States, to attack Iraq. One of the reasons for this is considered to be the geostrategic, geoeconomic importance and the demographic power of Iraq.

According to Danny Ayalon, the then Israeli ambassador to the US, Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister at the time, had informed George Bush, the US President, that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Benjamin Netanyahu, the current Prime Minister of Israel, also encouraged George Bush during that period, claiming that this attack on Iraq was a good chance, the right action and a savior of West Asia.

In 2003, the Zionist newspaper Haaretz published a report titled "White Man's Burden", stating that the idea of the war against Iraq in America was put forward by a small group of about 25 or 30 neoconservatives, almost all of whom were Jewish.

In this regard, some English newspapers and officials have also referred to the April 2002 meeting between British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Bush in Crawford (Bush's residence) about Iraq, a meeting that according to British sources was held behind closed doors and "Israelis" were present by phone.

On August 16, 2002 (11 days before "Dick Cheney", Bush's deputy, started the war campaign with a harsh speech for foreign war veterans), the Washington Post also reported that "Israel had asked US officials not to delay the military attack on Iraq".

According to Sharon, at this stage, the strategic coordination between Israel and the United States had reached "unprecedented dimensions", and the Israeli intelligence officials had provided various worrying reports on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs to Washington.

A lie that had a heavy price for Iraq, which it is still paying for to this day.

The US and Britain began the invasion of Iraq on March 19, 2003 under the slogan of "Operation Iraqi Freedom". An operation that not only did not bring freedom to the Iraqis, but also, according to Iraqi officials, resulted in the killing of hundreds of thousands of people in this country and the displacement of millions of others.

An invasion that, according to a poll published in August 2002 in the Zionist newspaper Maariv, 57% of Israelis supported.

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