US Senate votes to repeal measure that gave go-ahead for 2003 invasion of Iraq

US Senate votes to repeal measure that gave go-ahead for 2003 invasion of Iraq, the Associated Press reported.

20 years after launching a campaign that has claimed the lives of thousands of US troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, senators have voted to repeal the measure that allowed the George W. Bush administration to launch Operation Iraqi Freedom. The cause for the invasion then was the alleged stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction by Saddam Hussein, which was never proven.

In addition, legislators cancelled a similar authorisation to start the 1991 campaign.

At the same time, it is noted that this decision will in no way affect the American military roops deployed in the Middle East, but is only intended to strengthen the status of Iraq as a “strategic partner of the United States.”