American journalist Don DeBar has denounced former New York Times columnist, reporter Nicholas Kristof as an apologist of US imperialism who was complicit in the death of more than a million people in Iraq.

Today marks the nineteenth anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq on the false pretext of destroying the country’s weapons of mass destruction.

The US military adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan inflicted immense misery on people in these countries, while also causing traumatic brain injuries and post-traumatic stress disorder to American soldiers.

The world must finally put an end to the impunity of war criminals by holding US and UK officials responsible for launching the illegal war on Iraq, American journalist Don DeBar said.

British military inquiries into abuse against Iraqi nationals are closed without a single prosecution being brought.

Iran’s ambassador to the UN has dismissed Israel’s allegations against Tehran’s nuclear program as unfounded and irrelevant, saying Israel is trying to play the victim in a bid to divert the attention of the international community from its crimes.

"Are Americans safer because the US government spent $6.4 trillion bombing and occupying Iraq and Afghanistan?” American analyst Bill Dores asks.