How Regime Change Wars Led to Korea Crisis

[Judi Lynn]

September 4, 2017

Exclusive: The U.S.-led aggressions against Iraq and Libya are two war crimes that keep on costing, with their grim examples of what happens to leaders who get rid of WMDs driving the scary showdown with North Korea, writes Robert Parry.


By Robert Parry

It is a popular meme in the U.S. media to say that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is “crazy” as he undertakes to develop a nuclear bomb and a missile capacity to deliver it, but he is actually working from a cold logic dictated by the U.S. government’s aggressive wars and lack of integrity.

Indeed, the current North Korea crisis, which could end up killing millions of people, can be viewed as a follow-on disaster to President George W. Bush’s Iraq War and President Barack Obama’s Libyan intervention. Those wars came after the leaders of Iraq and Libya had dismantled their dangerous weapons programs, leaving their countries virtually powerless when the U.S. government chose to invade.

In both cases, the U.S. government also exploited its power over global information to spread lies about the targeted regimes as justification for the invasions — and the world community failed to do anything to block the U.S. aggressions.

And, on a grim personal note, the two leaders, Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, were then brutally murdered, Hussein by hanging and Gaddafi by a mob that first sodomized him with a knife.

More:
https://consortiumnews.com/2017/09/04/how-regime-change-wars-led-to-korea-crisis/

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1. While I believe it is highly unlikely that a war will result with NK,

NK is reacting with the belief that the US will be deterred from attacking NK, if the US believes NK will use nuclear weapons if such an event occurred

The fact is they are probably right

It is highly unlikely the US would have invaded Iraq if Iraq really had WMDs

They knew very well Iraq didn't