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20th Anniversary of the US Invasion of Iraq: A Global Perspective | Deshabhimani

It has been two decades since the American invasion of Baghdad, Iraq. The US military operation began on March 20, 2003 with the aim of overthrowing the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq. The move was spread that Iraq had ‘weapons of mass destruction’. In the years-long attack, more than 200,000 Iraqi citizens and 4500 US soldiers were killed. The killing of Saddam Hussein opened the way for more conflict. Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has revealed that this led to the rise of the state, admitting that the intelligence that led to the invasion was wrong and that the “weapons of destruction” that Saddam Hussein was accused of possessing had not been found. Read on deshabhimani.com

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