{"id":13463,"date":"2014-03-19T11:52:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T11:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13463"},"modified":"2014-03-19T11:52:32","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T11:52:32","slug":"the-invasion-of-iraq-was-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13463","title":{"rendered":"The invasion of Iraq was illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_13464\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13464\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/annan.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13464\" alt=\"Kofi Annan\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/annan.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13464\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kofi Annan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The war in Iraq did not end when the United States was kicked out, not by a long shot. The violence in Iraq is on the rise and for decades to come we will have to deal with what the United States and its allies have unleashed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It\u2019s anyone\u2019s guess if those responsible for this war of aggression (crime against peace) will ever be held accountable for their crimes. What we do know, however, is that the decision to invade Iraq has transformed the global political landscape because according to the UN charter, the invasion was illegal:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cKofi Annan, declared explicitly\u2026 that the US-led war on Iraq was illegal. Mr Annan said that the invasion was not sanctioned by the UN security council or in accordance with the UN\u2019s founding charter. In an interview with the BBC World Service\u2026 he was asked outright if the war was illegal. He replied: \u2018Yes, if you wish.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe then added unequivocally: \u2018I have indicated it was not in conformity with the UN charter. From our point of view and from the charter point of view it was illegal.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The war in Iraq did not end when the United States was kicked out, not by a long shot. The violence in Iraq is on the rise and for decades to come we will have to deal with what the United States and its allies have unleashed. It\u2019s anyone\u2019s guess if those responsible for this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=13463\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The invasion of Iraq was illegal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[8677,1491,8663],"class_list":["post-13463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-invasion-of-iraq","tag-kofi-annan","tag-un-charter"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/annan.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13465,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13463\/revisions\/13465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}