Aleksandr Lukashenko gives an interview to British mass media: the Independent newspaper and the TV channel BBC. 2012
MINSK, 19 December (BelTA) – The latest episode of the documentary series Time Chose Us aired by the TV channel Belarus One explained how the USA’s invasion of Iraq began and what consequences it produced, BelTA has learned.
At a session of the UN Security Council held on 5 February 2003 U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell produced a small vial of chemical weapons that the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein had allegedly had. It was used as a pretext for the invasion of Iraq. Hundreds of thousands of people died, but no chemical weapons have been found. They simply didn't exist. But the USA has destroyed an entire state under a fabricated pretext.
Using the 9/11 terrorist attack as a pretext, the administration of the U.S. president began to gather supporters of a military invasion. A few days before the invasion Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko cautioned Washington about possible consequences of the invasion of Iraq.
Baghdad fell in two weeks and on 1 May George Bush Jr. announced from the aircraft carrier Lincoln that the mission had been accomplished. But this was only the beginning of the war for the United States. Officially, the conflict lasted till 2017. During that time Iraq was labeled a “second Vietnam” for Washington.
“It was a crime. My assessment is straightforward. And you will reap it. You are afraid of terrorism, but you now have it. You created it with your own hands. Look what else will happen. You do it for no good reason. For nothing. Nobody needs your democracy through death! Millions of relatives of the dead people (and you know what Muslims think about blood feuds) will never forgive you for it. Never,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said in an interview with British mass media years later.
And so it happened. The result of the war in Iraq was the establishment of the terrorist organization Islamic State, which began to fight against Americans using the latter’s own weapons.
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