2003..

 

The toll of the Iraqi invasion  of 2003 and the violent events that followed for decades is still being calculated, but it's clear it was high. 

The Costs of War Project at Brown University counts as many as 210,038 Iraqi civilians who've died in violence since 2003, along with tens of thousands of Iraqi combatants — security forces and insurgents. [Other may calculate 1 million dead human]

There were 4,599 U.S. troops killed along with thousands more contractors working for the U.S.

The lessons of the invasion with near-consensus is about poor U.S. planning, tragically wrong assumptions and misleading claims about alleged chemical weapons stockpiles.

Unlike some Iraqi exiles who promised U.S. officials a grateful public and smooth transition and had the ear of the U.S. leadership, Iraqis in Baghdad expected chaos and danger from any regime change.   Just a thought.