20th Anniversary of The U.S. War, Invasion of Iraq

March 20, Iraq 20 years ago – 20 years since American and coalition forces invaded Iraq on a mission to topple Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship and find weapons of mass destruction. Former President George W. Bush and his administration wagered to the American public and the international community that Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction. The coalition found no such weapons, and two years later the WMD Commission, established by Bush, acknowledged in a report that the “WMD” fiasco was “one of the most public – and most damaging – intelligence failures in recent American history.” Forces did succeed in…