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How the Iraq war started

It is 20 years since America and a coalition of British, Australian and Polish forces invaded Saddam Hussein’s Iraq

“Our mission is clear,” declared president George W. Bush following the ground invasion of Iraq on 20 March 2003: “to disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction [WMDs], to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people”. 

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