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On September11, airplanes slammed into the World Trade Centers, murdering 2,763 people.

In order to bolster his poll numbers, guarantee his re-election, fund his weapons manufacturing corporate sponsors, and secure his country some cheap crude oil, American President George W. Bush, along with Vice President Dick Cheney and a cartel of war criminals, concocted a story that was later proven patently false:

 That Saddam Hussein was in possession of weapons of mass destruction.

Under the pretext of liberation — the special operation was named Operation Iraqi Freedom— America declared Iraq’s government illegitimate and invaded on March 19th, 2003.

The initial invasion was met with fierce resistance,and maintaining control of the nation proved far more costly than America had predicted.

Let’s be brutally honest: It was a bloodbath:

1,033,000 of our Iraqi brothers and sisters died.

9.2 million fled as refugees.    Thousands of cities, towns, and villages were destroyed.

America and its allies lost 25,071 soldiers, with another 117,961 wounded.

Last week, Russian troops initiated a “special operation,” invading the sovereign nation of Ukraine after declaring its government illegitimate.