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Inside Iraq
Was the war justified?
Six years after the fall of Baghdad, Inside Iraq asks what the war has achieved.
Last Modified: 11 Apr 2009 08:31 GMT



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The war on Iraq has revealed some important lessons and its consequences will be with us for decades to come.

It exposed the limits of military power to establish stability, even after defeating the enemy.

It has also revealed the impotence of the UN and anti-war demonstrators worldwide to stop a superpower waging war.

On the sixth anniversary of the fall of Baghdad, we ask if those who supported the war view Iraqi elections as proof of democracy taking hold after decades of tyranny.

Do critics of the war look at Iraq's sectarian constitution and low-level civil war and wonder if the bloodbath is worth the reward?

Our guests this week are Hans Blix, the chairman of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, Clare Short, a British member of parliament, and Ambassador Adam Ereli, a public affairs counsellor at the US embassy in Baghdad.

This episode of Inside Iraq aired from Friday, April 10, 2009.
Source:
Al Jazeera
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