[ALOCHONA] iraq

A look back at 8 years of war in Iraq

Eight years after the US entered Iraq to topple Saddam and liberate the people, conditions are worse than ever. Medea Benjamin and Charles Davis Last Modified: 21 Mar 2011 11:57 http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/03/201132173052269144.html

March 19 marks the eighth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, a nation that had no weapons of mass destruction and was not involved in the 9/11 attacks.
It was sold to the American public as a war to defend our nation and free the Iraqi people.
US deputy secretary of defence Paul Wolfowitz said our soldiers would be greeted as liberators and that Iraqi oil money would pay for the reconstruction.
Vice president Dick Cheney said the military effort would take "weeks rather than months". And assistant defence secretary Ken Adelman predicted that "liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk".
Eight years on, it's time to look back at that "cakewalk".

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