{"id":353186,"date":"2018-03-21T13:39:20","date_gmt":"2018-03-21T12:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/remembering-the-war-on-iraq-march-20-2003\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T13:39:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T12:39:20","slug":"remembering-the-war-on-iraq-march-20-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/remembering-the-war-on-iraq-march-20-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the War on Iraq: March 20, 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Today marks the 15th Anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Neither solid analyses, moral reasoning and decent argument nor history\u2019s probably largest pre-war, anti-war demonstrations worldwide had any discernible impact on the Bush and Blair Administrations\u2019 decision to go to war and do so on a false pretext. Neither could major allies like France and Germany by their opposition to the war on Iraq persuade Washington and London to first try a peaceful resolution in accordance with the UN Charter provisions.<\/p>\n<p>TFF was deeply engaged in preventing this war \u2013 also by being on the ground in Iraq \u2013 and wants to a) document the research we did and how we argued back then and b) contribute to this tragedy never being forgotten.<\/p>\n<p>We also want to place our analyses and debate articles at the disposal \u2013 in one place \u2013 of the students, researchers, concerned citizens and others who are willing to spend the time and energy in understanding it more in depth and from a peace and conflict-resolution perspective \u2013 which is still far from known in the public debate, politics and media.<\/p>\n<p>We are not \u2013 out of what would be false, misplaced modesty \u2013 seeking to hide the fact that we made a much more comprehensive conflict analysis and produced much better predictions than the intelligence services, foreign ministries and foreign policy institutes of Western interventionist governments and, grosso modo, the Western mainstream media and their commentator experts (few of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dissidentvoice.org\/2018\/03\/remembering-the-war-on-iraq-march-20-2003\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today marks the 15th Anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq. Neither solid analyses, moral reasoning and decent argument nor history\u2019s probably largest pre-war, anti-war demonstrations worldwide had any discernible impact on the Bush and Blair Administrations\u2019 decision to go to war and do so on a false pretext. Neither could major allies like France [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-353186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}