Trump's Dangerous March Toward War With Iran: Unclear Motives, Echoes of Iraq
Mohamad Bazzi warns that the Trump administration's aggressive posture toward Iran mirrors the flawed logic that led to the Iraq War, raising concerns about an unnecessary and devastating conflict.
In the wake of the US government's misleading and faulty justifications for the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the world is once again concerned about the Trump administration's march toward war with Iran. As Mohamad Bazzi notes, the administration has not provided a clear, compelling case for its increasingly hostile actions against Iran, echoing the false rationale used to justify the Iraq War.
Just as George W. Bush laid out his case for invading Iraq in a televised speech in 2002, warning of Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction and the threat of a nuclear attack, the Trump administration has not offered a similarly transparent and well-reasoned argument for its confrontational approach toward Iran. Bazzi points out that the Iraqi regime's weapons program turned out to be nonexistent, and the administration's rationale was based on manipulated intelligence and outright lies.
Source: The Guardian
