Il nuovo Iraq a vent’anni di distanza

[Autom. eng. transl.] “The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens – leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children. [...] United States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. [...] all nations should know: [...] I will not wait on events, while dangers gather. I will not stand by as peril draws closer and closer”.1 With these words, on 29 January 2002 the president of the States United States of America George W. Bush effectively initiated a process which, in just over a year, would lead to the fall of the Saddam Hussein's regime. And yet, the operation that should have complete the work begun in 1990-1991 by his father, George H.W. Bush, would soon reveal a long series of negative externalities capable of profoundly affecting not only destiny of the modern Iraqi state synthesis, but on the balance of enlarged Middle Eastern quadrant and of the whole international system.