An invasion originated in a big lie, the massive destruction weapons the Irakis supposedly had. Much of the discredit "the west" has internationally is because these nonsense US lead invasions. Despite UK and Asnar efforts, against 98% spanish public opinio against the war, EU stayed mostly against. #irakwar

We Iraqis had survived Saddam Hussein. It was the US invasion that destroyed our lives
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/17/iraqis-saddam-hussein-us-invasion-country

We Iraqis had survived Saddam Hussein. It was the US invasion that destroyed our lives

We have a saying that captures the devastation of our country: ‘Saddam has gone, but 1,000 more Saddams have replaced him’, says Balsam Mustafa, a research fellow at the University of Warwick

The Guardian