This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchler.

Twenty years ago today, the invasion the attack on Iraq by the United States.

I welcome the New World Report with Joseph Umar, the Executive Director of Secure Free Society

in Ernesto Arrujo, former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Brazil to reflect on

twenty years ago today.

We were all younger men, but we were no wiser about Iraq, which today the payoff is

darkness visible, non-transparent, profoundly troubled.

The GDP is grown, but so is the bad actress from outside.

We're going to special report in Latin America, but first memories.

Ernesto, where were you twenty years ago today, and can you recall your thoughts when

you heard the US was invading Saddam Hussein's dictatorship because of weapons of mass destruction?

Good evening to you.

Good evening, John.

I was in Brussels for a American School European Union negotiation, which I was handling back

then.

I remember, well, I think it was Monday morning when we started the meeting with the news

that the invasion had taken place.

And I recall a European official saying, oh, this is a sad day.

And a Argentinian colleague from the Brussels side said, a sad day for whom.

And I kind of agreed with my Argentinian colleague back then in the sense that we thought that

this was a good day for democracy, for a liberal world order, and a bad day for the dictators,

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