invasion wasn't necessarily the only way of getting rid of Saddam Hussein. If he could have been indicted as a war criminal and the people of Iraq invited to hand him over who knows what would have happened? And then I don't think there should have been an military occupation if it really was an action to liberate thePeople of Iraq. It should have been a UN led international force not Americans not British. The first thing you have to keep is order and keep people fed and having water in electricity and keep some order in the country. This isn't complicated this is just a disastrous series of decisions that shows they really didn't know what they were doing.
What happened in Iraq once the Americans and the British arrived? Why was the transfer of power a far from smooth operation? And what else went wrong in what should have been the mission for liberation?
In the second episode of this series Iraq: Legacy of War, brought to you by Intelligence Squared, host Manveen Rana, is joined again by Renad Mansour, director of the Iraq Initiative at Chatham House; and Clare Short, who was Secretary of State for International Development from 1997 to 2003.
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This series was produced by Farah Jassat and Catharine Hughes, with editing and artwork from Catharine Hughes. Music is by Lesfm. Excerpts featured in this episode are from BBC news.
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