EXACTLY after 8 years 9 months and 12 days after America attacked Iraq, cooking up lies for alleged weapons of mass destruction and support for al Qaeda, the last America solider has left the soil of the Mesopotamian country. It leaves behind a devastated, deeply divided, and economically mauled and torn into bloody Shia and Sunni factions. American military might is present close by in Kuwait and inside Iraq where it has the largest embassy full of soldiers and military advisors.

Iraq lay waste. The fratricidal war between the Shias and Sunnis, claiming hundreds of lives has soaked the entire ancient civilization with the blood of innocent men, women and children. Whatever be the faults of the dictator the assonated Saddam Hussein, he had pursued secular politics and kept the fractious zealots under check. Iraq was certainly more peaceful until America desperate for oil and to further the cause of its hegemonic politics, it invented the theory of ma weapons of mass destruction, now called weapons of mass deception.

Much before the USA attacked Iraq with its lethal weapons, its economic blockade had caused the death of thousands of children women due to shortage of life saving drugs.

What has cost the Iraqis where a puppet corrupt regime is in place. And, what is the balance sheet of the Americans, now reeling under economic recession and living on borrowed dollars from a communist country, China. One for sure, neither the Americans and nor the world is more peaceful despite years of Americans bombing and fighting in Iraq or for that matter in a poor country Afghanistan.

While strategic gains for America are under sharp security across the world, the number of total deaths is between 110,663 and 119,380. Coalition deaths 4,803 includes 4,484 US soldiers and as many as 32,200 wounded. Iraqi Security Force, or ISF, deaths are counted at least 10,125. Worst is the suffering of the civilians who still years for peace. Between 103,674 and 113,265 were cut down in the prime of their lives. The futile war left 1.24 million internally displaced persons.

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