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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Maryam Zakir-Hussain

Twenty years on: The shocking numbers behind the Iraq war

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Twenty years have passed since George W Bush vowed to save the West from Saddam Hussein’s stockpile of weapons of mass destruction.

Backed by the UK and a coalition of international forces, on 20 March, 2003, the US launched a “shock and awe” bombing campaign which President Bush triumphantly declared as “mission accomplished” just weeks later on 1 May.

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