Marine Lee West was deployed to Iraq three years after UK military involvement should have ended. Part of his unit’s mission was to disrupt the operations of insurgents and those responsible for …
Opinion: Twenty years after the invasion of Iraq, Congress still has unfinished business
She was the only member of Congress to vote against the 2001 AUMF to go to war in Afghanistan, and helped lead the opposition against the 2002 AUMF to go to war with Iraq. She is the co-chair of the …
20 Years After U.S. Invasion, Iraq Is a Freer Place, but Not a Hopeful One
Conversations with dozens of Iraqis offer a portrait of a nation that is rich in oil, hobbled by corruption and unable to guarantee its citizens’ safety.
20 Years On, a Question Lingers About Iraq: Why Did the U.S. Invade?
Nor the financial cost to the United States ($815 billion, not counting indirect costs like lost productivity). It’s not even the war’s consequences, which are broadly understood to include, at a …
Saddam Hussein’s Capsized Yacht Is a Curious Attraction For Sightseers and Locals in Iraq
And Hussein wouldn’t get the chance to do so, since the yacht was targeted by U.S. forces during the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and capsized during … As with most of Hussein’s property, the people of …
Iraq and 15 Lessons We Never Learned
What distinguished Iraq 2003 was the ineptness of the lying … again for years and years to focus on the damage the war was doing to U.S. troops, and the financial cost to taxpayers, and not to make …
Iraq and 15 Lessons We Never Learned
What distinguished Iraq 2003 was the ineptness of the lying … again for years and years to focus on the damage the war was doing to U.S. troops, and the financial cost to taxpayers, and not to make …
20 years later, U.S. invasion of Iraq hangs over war in Ukraine
There are Freudian slips and there’s what former president George W. Bush said during a speech last May. Speaking to an audience in his presidential library in Texas, Bush condemned Russian President …
A bloody delusion: how Iraq war led to catastrophic aftermath in Middle East
The 2003 invasion’s legacy reverberates in the emboldenment of Iran, Islamic State’s violence and the disintegration of Syria …
The real lesson of the Iraq invasion? Beware spies and allies who would drag you to war
The errors, exaggerations and worse that led to the invasion offer essential lessons for our own time, in conflict and beyond, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland …