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Which one of the following statements related to the Iraq invasion by the US is incorrect? |
More than forty other countries were involved in this invasion The UN had given consent to invade Iraq The invasion was to prevent Iraq from developing weapons of mass destruction The US lost over 3000 military personnel in this war |
The UN had given consent to invade Iraq |
The correct answer is Option 2 - The UN had given consent to invade Iraq On 19 March 2003, the US launched its invasion of Iraq under the codename ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’. More than forty other countries joined in the US-led ‘coalition of the willing’ after the UN refused to give its mandate to the invasion. The US lost over 3000 military personnel in this war. The invasion was to prevent Iraq from developing weapons of mass destruction. The ostensible purpose of the invasion was to prevent Iraq from developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD). NOTE- The invasion of Iraq was neither in self-defense against armed attack nor sanctioned by UN Security Council resolution authorizing the use of force by member states and thus constituted the crime of war of aggression, according to the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) in Geneva. |
