Wars are nothing but continuation of politics by other means. This old piece of wisdom is true for all wars. But seldom has the political content of a war been as transparent as in the case of the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq.
The nauseating Anglo-American excuses – that Iraq under Saddam Hussein posed a security threat to America, that Iraq therefore had to be disarmed thoroughly and immediately and that the only way to achieve this goal of Iraqi diasrmament was to oust the evil regime of Saddam Hussein – could cut no ice with the world opinion. For once the overwhelming majority of UN members, including permanent and temporary members of the Security Council, refused to succumb to the Anglo-American insistence on invasion of Iraq. Wary of a UN rejection, the war mongers shelved every notion of international law to launch one of the most unequal and unjust wars in world history. Sure enough, they codenamed it “Operation Iraqi Freedom”, once again trying to sell hi-tech mass slaughter as a dole of freedom for a people ravaged by relentless strafing and sustained economic embargo. But the world had already decoded it as “Mission Iraqi Recolonisation”. The slogan “No blood for oil” had already been deeply embedded in popular consciousness across the world.
