Giving up search for WMD in Iraq

President Bush had long ago changed his tune to removing Saddam. But the fact remains that the world was duped into believing a lie. Thousands of innocent people were killed, prisoners were tortured, completely disregarding human rights, and the country is now in a condition of total instability. It wouldn't be wrong to say that the credibility of the US as a superpower has been highly diminished.

This was probably the only case where an armed invasion on a sovereign country was initiated on artificial justification based on some figment of imagination by some high US officials. It makes the invasion not only illegal, but also unjustified and immoral.

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Now the question is -- who will be held responsible for all the lies, false statements and wrong evidences that were dished out by the US and its allies to justify one of the most unjustified invasion in the recent history? Would President Bush and Prime Minister Blair publicly acknowledge that their justifications for invading Iraq were based on wrong evidences? Would it be possible to make any one of them stand trial for lying -- about Saddam possessing WMD hence the country needed to be invaded -- not only to their own citizens but also to the rest of the world?

Would the common Iraqis get justice for the injustice meted out to them? Would they ever be compensated for the trauma they encountered in last two years? We pray that they do.