Senator Bernie Sanders traveled similarities between US air attacks against Iran this weekend, and the invasion of Iraq in 2003. – We can’t let history repeat itself – said the American Democrat, said the highlighted CNN.
Vermont’s progressive parliamentarian pointed out that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and President Donald Trump used similar language around the attacks in Iran, just as Netanyahu himself and then President George W. Bush said around Iraq’s invasion.
Sanders quoted a statement by Netanyahu in the 2002 Congress, in which the Israeli leader said: “There is no doubt that Saddam [Hussein] is looking for nuclear weapons. ”
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Sanders then emphasized the allegations of “George Bush, that” Saddam’s regime is looking for a nuclear bomb and his defense for a preventive attack, “referring to an analogy of the then president that the United States could not afford to wait for the” steaming weapon that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud. “
“No weapon of mass destruction has been found,” Sanders continued. “This war was based on a lie. A lie that cost us 4,500 young Americans, 32,000 injured and trillion dollars.”
Bush, in 2003, announced the invasion of Iraq under the pretext of eliminating weapons of mass destruction, an allegation that was later unmasked.
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Netanyahu and Trump quoted the threat represented by the Iran’s nuclear program, with the US president saying on Saturday, the White House: “Our goal was to destroy Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and the end of the nuclear threat represented by the number 1 sponsor of the world’s terrorism.”
Sanders told the Texas audience: – Brothers and sisters, we cannot let the story be repeated. The United States face huge problems here at home. We should be spending our money and our labor rebuilding America, not entering a war against Iran.
