🔴FLASHBACK: US and Britain Launch Brutal, Illegal Invasion of Iraq - On This Day in 2003

The pretext for invasion was the pack of lies that Saddam Hussein possessed WMDs and was working with Al-Qaeda.

An MIT estimate judged that there were 800,000-1.3mn excess deaths in Iraq due to the war. Within the first month, an estimated 15k people were killed during the invasion.

The photos are from the CIA’s and US army’s torture program in Abu Ghraib prison. A reminder for when you hear the phrase ‘we are defending the rules-based international order’.

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