It opened with a “shock and awe” blitz on Saddam Hussein’s palaces and then, 20 years ago today, troops stormed Iraq in a campaign whose effects continue.
Some 35,000 Brits were among the 200,000-strong US-led deployment which followed claims tyrant Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.
Months of protests, led in the UK by the Mirror, had opposed the war but a dodgy intelligence dossier persuaded Tony Blair’s government to back George W Bush’s invasion.
