Some 20 years after the sanctions were put in place, the UN Security Council has finally lifted most, but not all, of the anti-Iraq sanctions centering around the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The US lauded the end to the sanction as proof of “better days ahead” for the nation, which has been occupied by the United States since 2003.
The sanctions have been a lingering annoyance for the Iraqi government, officially condemning Iraq for “possessing weapons of mass destruction” which were the nominal reason for the US invasion, but found never to have existed.
The lifting of the sanctions means the UN Security Council is no longer officially demanding that Iraq not have a civilian nuclear energy program. The legal basis for demanding that they not have such a program was dubious, at best, but now no longer matters.
On the other hand some of the sanctions will remain in place, nominally to punish Iraq for not having negotiated a border deal with Kuwait. The incoming Maliki government insists such a deal will be a top priority.
But,, but… im still scared of saddam hussien can't you kill another million children first, then i feel better
Million dead Muslim children will not satisfy Crusaders and Zionist lust for Muslim blood, there are over billion of them.
Well there you go. The Iraq War Parts 1, 2, 3, and Mission Accomplished MUST BE OVER. Officially and finally. UN Security Council says so. Done is done.
So now for the sort of naggy and irritating part, does Iraq get to go after the war criminals? You know, Tony Blair and George Bush and that annoying 'coalition of the willing' and the Bush/Blair minions and "dodgy documents" and those "smoking nuclear mushrooms" and all that Iraq oil that old 'one-toe' Wolfowitz maintained would pay for the Iraq debacle?
Say, is Wolfowitz still hanging around? Shouldn't the cheap little scroundrel be in the dock at the ICC?
Since the premise for the sanctions has been proven false, surely Iraq is entitled to punitive reparations from the US for the damge unjustly caused?
This approach seems to work for another ME tribe.
Tragic, really. The US has invaded the country, destroyed, pillaged it, plundered it, raped it, massacred 1.4 million innocent Iraqis, displaced another 5 million or so, maimed who knows how many more millions. There's nothing left but bloodshed, chaos and destruction. And now, the lift the sanctions. Lift them from what? The rubble? The dead bodies?