Sounds familiar: Was this said about Iraq in 2003, or Iran in 2025? | Israel-Iran conflict News

With Israel and the United States has embarked on a growing conflict with Iran, Western leaders use words that seem too familiar on the part of the war in Iraq.

“Today, we have the greatest power to release a nation by breaking a dangerous and aggressive regime. With new tactics and precision weapons, we can achieve military objectives without directing violence against civilians. ”

It may look like something said Yesterday, we are following strikes on Iran.

But that was not the case.

These words were delivered by the American president George W Bush on the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, when he marked the end of the main combat operations in Iraq.

Now, with Israel and the United States has embarked on an escalation conflict With Iran, world leaders use the language and rhetoric that seem too familiar, making strange comparisons with the war in Iraq more than two decades ago.

Familiar warnings, similar justifications

Israel and the United States have said that their military strikes were aimed at preventing Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Iran, for its part, insists that its nuclear program is entirely peaceful and meant only civil purposes.

For more than three decadesA familiar refrain echoes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: Iran is about to develop nuclear weapons. In 2002, he urged the American Congress to invade Iraq, saying that Baghdad developed weapons of mass destruction (WMD). He also said that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons. The United States invaded Iraq in 2003, but no ADM was found.

The last increase in the inflammatory rhetoric of the American and Israeli authorities goes beyond the alleged nuclear ambitions of Iran and the missile capacities. More and more, it alludes to the possibility of Change of diet, A leadership that the United States has a long and controversial history of prosecution in the region.

History is repeated?

The war led by the United States and its “Coalition of the Willing” have left Iraq ruined, with hundreds of thousands Iraqis have killed, around 4,500 American mortals and the destabilized country by deepening sectarian conflicts.

With hindsight, the rhetoric that opened the way for this invasion seems incredibly familiar. The United States, as well as the United Kingdom, tried to convince the world that Iraq had ADMs as war progressed.

How can you make a difference? Read these 10 declarations and decide: were they made in the performance of the 2003 war or in 2025?