VIDEO Twenty Years On: Iraq’s Foreign Minister illuminates lasting benefits from U.S.-led invasion
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March 20 marks twenty years since the U.S. invaded Iraq and set the stage for a brutal, almost nine-year war and occupation under the guise that the country’s dictator Saddam Hussein harbored weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Five thousand American lives were lost, and countless others were ripped apart and destroyed physically and psychologically. Further, a study by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University estimates that between 275,000 and 306,000 Iraqi civilians have died from direct violence instigated by the war.
VIDEO Twenty Years On: Iraq’s Foreign Minister illuminates lasting benefits from U.S.-led invasion
VIDEO Twenty Years On: Iraq’s Foreign…
VIDEO Twenty Years On: Iraq’s Foreign Minister illuminates lasting benefits from U.S.-led invasion
March 20 marks twenty years since the U.S. invaded Iraq and set the stage for a brutal, almost nine-year war and occupation under the guise that the country’s dictator Saddam Hussein harbored weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). Five thousand American lives were lost, and countless others were ripped apart and destroyed physically and psychologically. Further, a study by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University estimates that between 275,000 and 306,000 Iraqi civilians have died from direct violence instigated by the war.