Inside Iraq - Lessons of War - 03 Oct 08 - Part 1

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Inside Iraq asks what lessons the world has learnt more than five years into the American military misadventure in Iraq. It is often said that history repeats itself. The Vietnam war in the 1960s, which dragged on for 14 years, is an almost direct parallel to the invasion of Iraq. The route to Baghdad, however, was far more complicated. The war split the western super powers and the UN. George Bush, the US president, and Tony Blair, the former British prime minister, were convinced that the UN's blessing was not necessary to invade Iraq, prompting Kofi Annan, the then secretary-general, to label it an illegal war. Critics charged that the biggest lesson of the war was the deception over Saddam's supposed weapons of mass destruction. Our guest this week is Lord David Owen, a former British foreign minister.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: October 3, 2008 at 9:13 am
Author: AlJazeeraEnglish

Length: 0:12:29
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Tags: Inside Iraq Jasim Al-Azzawi Lord David Owen US foreign policy Blair Bush administration mistakes lessons learned

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sjafar48 (Thursday 16th of October 2008 03:41:56 PM)
The Jews and the Jews alone are resposible for the war Iraq. They are the brain behind the whole war. The fomenter the the antognizer. They crucified Jesus and everyone blame the Roman.
CuriousCapricorn (Friday 10th of October 2008 09:19:38 AM)
well i would like to see you try that white trash inbred hick. Stay in your in-bred trailor trash and keep your filth there. Oh by the way ask your brother who happens to be your dad as well if he would like to marry your sister who happens to be your mother as well.
CuriousCapricorn (Friday 10th of October 2008 09:16:39 AM)
U know Khalid, In US in my country, we have white trash/hicks that still beleive that Saddam was behind 911. I guess with the same token v have your kind in M.E who after knowing the truth just doesnot want to beleive it. Did Saddam not commit massacares against Shias and Sunnis? Did he not invade Iran and then Kuwait? Did he not build gold palaces for himself while the rest of the Iraq was under sanctions, starving, running out of medicines? The Sunni govts around him helped in those sanctions.
bappi11 (Thursday 9th of October 2008 12:23:41 AM)
Iraqi freedom fighters should kill all the occupiers of Iraq.
JuanVoyce (Saturday 4th of October 2008 05:05:24 AM)
That was a good interview. Too bad Bush wasn't voted out like Blair was.
oceanbound222 (Saturday 4th of October 2008 04:17:58 AM)
hang this terrorist by his balls. don't forget to hang bush and blair - all terrorists !!!!!!!!!!
somethingawful01 (Friday 3rd of October 2008 11:52:28 PM)
Then this fool keeps talking about faulty intelligence in the hope he doesn't get called a warcriminal. He should be tried together with that Nazi Blair and hung for their crimes against humanity. Sadam was put in power to sell cheap oil and when he stopped doing that he became a problem and was removed. Whom are you going to impose on the Iraqi people this time you Nazi warcriminals? You should all burn for what you have done.
somethingawful01 (Friday 3rd of October 2008 11:49:37 PM)
It is funny how this Lord Owen Fool talks about the horrors of the aftermath of the invasion and the brutality of Sadam. Nice of him to forget the crimes of the British when they occupied Iraq twice. Then he talks about the illigal no-fly zones and how Sadam was prevented from oppressing the Kurds when the Turks were invading Northern Iraq on a regular basis and wiping out entire villages.
zhengiszen (Friday 3rd of October 2008 11:13:32 PM)
F-ck the Anglo-Saxon empire
aceone1988 (Friday 3rd of October 2008 07:58:28 PM)
this man is a lier