On Wednesday the 27th of August 2014, the Danish parliament unanimously voted in favor of Denmark going to war in Iraq once again.

The Danish contribution to the US action in Northern Iraq will initially be a C-130 Hercules aircraft with lighter arms and ammunition, to be given to Kurdish forces. Along with fifty-five men who are to be in charge of the safety of the transport.

What is it that makes Denmark go to war this time? It is the assertion that one cannot just sit by and watch as a humanitarian crisis is developing in Northern Iraq. An assertion ringing hollow, for since when have ‘humanitarian crises' been something that worried Danish and Western politicians?

Hizb ut Tahrir / Skandinavien