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US President Barack Obama defended the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, in an effort to muster European allies in an "isolation" and sanctions campaign against Russia during a speech in Belgium on Wednesday.
Obama defended the invasion of Iraq as he described a March 16 referendum in the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, in which people overwhelmingly voted to break away from Ukraine and rejoin Russia as illegal and "outside the boundaries of international law."
During the speech in Brussels on Wednesday, Obama said Washington at least tried to seek approval from the United Nations before it invaded Iraq. The US invasion of Iraq was not sanctioned by the UN and several experts say it violated any standard reading of international law, Press TV website reported.

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