I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.

When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.

The Iraq War was the first conflict in western history in which an imperialist war was massively protested against before it had even been launched.

The invasion of Iraq, particularly, gave a big shot in the arm to the jihadi extremists.

The number of people killed by the sanctions in Iraq is greater than the total number of people killed by all weapons of mass destruction in all of history.

Qatar-based 'Al-Jazeera,' the most important news channel in the Arab world, was harshly criticized by high U.S. officials for having 'emphasized civilian casualties' during the destruction of Falluja. The problem of independent media was later resolved when the channel was kicked out of Iraq in preparation for free elections.