While delivering a speech to the United Nations Security Council, Powell claimed the US has "solid evidence" of Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction, brandishing a small vial of white powder he said could contain anthrax.A month and a half later, the United States unilaterally invaded Iraq, supported only by a handful of its allies like the United Kingdom, as the United Nations did not authorize military action.The invasion utterly devastated Iraq and sent ripples across the entire Middle East, yet no weapons of mass destruction were ever found.
On February 5, 2003, then-US Secretary of State Colin Powell went down is history as he contributed to the United States’ fabrication of a pretext to invade Iraq.
While delivering a speech to the United Nations Security Council, Powell claimed the US has "solid evidence" of Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction, brandishing a small vial of white powder he said could contain anthrax.
A month and a half later, the United States unilaterally invaded Iraq, supported only by a handful of its allies like the United Kingdom, as the United Nations did not authorize military action.
The invasion utterly devastated Iraq and sent ripples across the entire Middle East, yet no weapons of mass destruction were ever found.
US Army soldiers pry off the presidential seal from the front door of one of Saddam Hussein's palaces in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, April 8, 2003. The palace was the second they had secured in as many days. Both lavish buildings were heavily damaged by previous US Air Force bombing. (AP Photo/John Moore)
A general view taken March 21, 2004, shows Saddam Hussein's former Radwaniya Palace in Baghdad. As protestors marked the first anniversary of the Iraq War, hundreds of US troops made yet another sweep through Al-Jihad neighborhood in southwest Baghdad on the hunt for insurgents. AFP PHOTO/Karim SAHIB (Photo by KARIM SAHIB / AFP)
Employees of Baghdad's al-Muthanna Library climb the stairs inside a burnt out section of the building on March 13, 2004, nearly one year after it was ransacked by looters. The library was looted and set on fire on April 13, 2003, four days after the fall of Baghdad to US-led coalition forces. Known as the National Library, it was built in 1961 and was home to Iraq's national archives. AFP PHOTO/Joseph BARRAK (Photo by JOSEPH BARRAK / AFP)
An employee of the Iraqi Ministry of Information makes his way between wrecked dishes on the roof of the ministry's building in Baghdad March 29, 2003, after it was hit by a coalition missile overnight. Waves of attacks on the Iraqi capital and its surrounds continued on the 10th day of the war, with at least one missile crashing into the Information Ministry after scores of people died in a market. AFP PHOTO/Patrick BAZ (Photo by PATRICK BAZ / AFP)
A student conducts experiments with very few pieces of equipment at al-Mustansiriyah University in Baghdad, Iraq, August 31, 2004. The Education Ministry asked for help from the government and sympathetic donor countries after universities were looted and burned down during the war. (AP Photo/ Samir Mizban)
Damage to the stern of the 'Al Mansur', Saddam Hussein's private yacht, is seen on April 10, 2003, as the yacht drifts near Basra. The vessel, which was nearly 400 feet long and was reputed to be able to accommodate some 200 guests, was heavily bombed by British forces. (AP Photo/Simon Walker, Pool)
Parts of a beheaded sculpture lie among rubble after a mob of looters ransacked and looted Iraq's largest archeological museum in Baghdad, April 13, 2003. The pillaging of the Iraqi National Museum in the immediate aftermath of Baghdad's fall in April 2003 shocked the world, but while many of those antiquities have since been recovered, the looting has taken off in the archaeological sites scattered around the perilous countryside. AFP PHOTO PATRICK BAZ (Photo by PATRICK BAZ / AFP)
A burnt out wrecked car is seen in the al-Shaab neighborhood in Baghdad on March 27, 2003. A missile hit the neighborhood, leaving 17 people dead and dozens injured. Iraq announced that more than 350 people had been killed in the first week of the war, and accused the United States of dropping cluster bombs on civilians in Baghdad. AFP PHOTO/Karim SAHIB (Photo by KARIM SAHIB / AFP)
A statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein stands in the middle of the ruins of the Iraqi Air Force headquarters as the sun sets in Baghdad April 9, 2003. US tanks and troops poured into Baghdad as the Iraqi leader's government was overthrown after a three-week onslaught by US-led forces. AFP PHOTO/RAMZI HAIDAR (Photo by RAMZI HAIDAR / AFP)
Greek reporter Elefteria Pentaraki films the destruction of "tent city" on the roof of Baghdad's press center March 31, 2003, after it was hit by a coalition missile overnight. AFP PHOTO/Patrick BAZ (Photo by PATRICK BAZ / AFP)
The owner of a flower shop outside a Baghdad maternity clinic sits in front of her damaged shop after a US-British air raid on April 2, 2003. The Red Crescent clinic was hit in air strikes over Baghdad. AFP PHOTO/Karim SAHIB (Photo by KARIM SAHIB / AFP)
Iraq's ruling Baath party officials look at the Tikrit museum on March 22, 2003, that was hit the night before by a US missile. Four Iraqis were killed in the US-led strikes on Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's ancestral hometown.
Picture shot April 18, 2003, shows what is left of the main lobby of one of toppled Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's palaces, in Al Owja, his city of birth, following bombings by the US-led forces.
US Army soldiers from A Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment search a presidential palace in Baghdad, Tuesday, April 8, 2003. The palace was the second they had secured in as many days, both lavish buildings heavily damaged by previous Air Force bombing.
A bust of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appears on the roof of Qasr al-Salam (peace palace) in Baghdad March 22, 2003, hit by a US missile overnight. Baghdad was kept awake well into the early hours of March 22, 2003, after the United States pounded the city with waves of air strikes that turned vast sections of the Iraqi capital into an inferno.
A woman walks past burning cars in front of the heavily damaged United Nations headquarters at the Canal Hotel in eastern Baghdad after a huge explosion rocked the building leaving several people dead August 19, 2003. UN special representative for Iraq Sergio Vieira de Mello was wounded in the apparent truck bomb attack, UN officials in New York said.
US Army soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the 3rd Infantry Division check the captured presidential palace near Baghdad's international airport, southwest of the capital, April 7, 2003. US forces raided three of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's palaces in and near the capital, including his main compound in the center of the city.
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