An independent probe investigating the Netherlands’ support for the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq says the US and Britain rushed to war without sufficient legal backing under international law.
The commission’s 551-page report says UN resolutions prior to the outbreak of the war did not provide the mandate for the attack.
“There was insufficient legitimacy” for the invasion, commission chairman Willibrord Davids told journalists in The Hague on Tuesday.
The report further concludes that there was no legal basis for the Iraq war, while accusing the Dutch government of spicing up allegation that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction — the main mantra on which arguments for war were erected.
The development comes amid deepening public concerns in the countries that joined the US-led war, prompting independent probes in other parts of Europe, including the United Kingdom, to settle the question of the ongoing war’s legality.
The report also confirms that the Netherlands gave political support to war, but notes that the country was never militarily involved in the conflict.
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Rightly so Vlad!LOL!
like they’ve done with serbia,f** c**ts!
it’s really sad…
oh,poor “kids” (dutch), they didn’t know the war was wrong! it drives me mad: they fight muslim terrorists far away from our shores but let them in by millions and not deporting them.hypocrisy rules!
guys,i got a question:
“why the people of Poland are called “Poles” and and the people of Holland aren’t called “Holes”?”
The legality of the war means nothing when it is The New World Order and the Bilderbergs behind the scenes making the political puppets dance to their One World Government tune.
A little late for this assessment, don’t you think? The Brits & Americans are now pulling out of Iraq. The Dutch, a country that has legalized porn, pedephillia, anal intercourse, and God knows what else! I encourage all perverts of the World to immigrate to the Nederlands! Join your Muslim Brothers!