Someone should tell John Ware that peace was never the plan. The war was prosecuted solely in the political interest of Israel because Iraq was the Zionist entity’s chief Arab enemy. Therefore, the total dismemberment and annihilation of the Iraqi nation was and is the intention, beginning with the burning of the Iraqi National Library, followed by sectarian war, which was the clear purpose of the “constitution” urged upon the flunkies that the US installed.

Ronald Schleyer, Minnesota, US

This is the reply from a BBC presenter:

Is it obvious that the US and UK invaded Iraq to accomplish the “dismemberment and annihilation of the Iraqi nation”? No! This ascribes an apocalyptic motive to both governments which I don’t think is warranted.

The idea of a broken up Iraq being in anyone’s strategic interest, least of all the US’s and UK’s, defeats me, I must say.

In fact one of the more astonishing failures of pre-war planning was the absence of any consideration of the possible consequences of the outcome, especially the loss of a unitary identity of Iraq.

The minute there is anything that remotely looks like an autonomous Kurdish political entity; there would be a Turkish intervention, and quite possibly an Iranian intervention. The minute there was anything that looked like a free standing entity with the borders of Iran having moved West by 400 miles, the Sunni entity would be threatened inviting adventurism from Syria or Jordan or Saudi Arabia.

These would be profoundly dangerous outcomes that would create the outline for the next round of conflict within the whole region.

No, how to achieve peace may not have been properly planned for, but it is clearly in the interests of the US and the rest of the coalition that peace should be achieved.

You say that furthering the “political interest of Israel” was the driving force for the invasion. But it’s hard to see how the invasion has been in Israel’s interest.

Isn’t it the case that today Israel feels much more threatened by Iran than ever it did by Iraq? You will recall that Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has described Israel as a “disgraceful blot” that should be “wiped off the face of the earth”. Few would disagree that Iran has been emboldened by Saddam’s removal

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This totally ignores what was being said before the war. If people remember, the Zionist plan was that with the Iraqi Shia enjoying a ‘democracy’, the Iranian Shia would also want the same and would get rid of their mullahs.

The Zionists also believed that Iraqi mullahs given an new powerbase in Iraq would serve as a counterweight to the Iranians.