OUR CARIBBEAN: After Iraq war, Obama’s dilemma on Assad’s Syria

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, Nation News - Still chastened by the unforgettable lies told by former President George Bush for “regime change” in Baghdad – achieved at horrific, mind-boggling human cost and devastation of Iraq – the American people should know that in our Caribbean region there are also deep anxieties over President Barack Obama’s impending US-led military attack in Syria.
The March 13, 2003 war on Iraq had been shamelessly propagandized by the Bush administration as a costly sacrificial undertaking to destroy Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction (WMDs), even after credible United Nations inspectors had already declared there were none.
However, significantly aided by a then cosy British Prime Minister Tony Blair, President Bush’s war against Saddam – once a formidable political ally of the United States in their shared hatred for Iran – expediently chose to forget that Washington’s once so-called “Hitler of Baghdad” had murdered thousands of Iraqis with mustard gas and sarin in four major political offensives during 1988.