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Our presence was initially regarded hopefully by Iraqis, not that that justifies the invasion.
We managed to fuck it up in record time by selling contracts to 'rebuild' the country to grifters and attempting to reconstruct a government with zero (0) interest or intelligence regarding Iraqi needs and desires.
The British Inquiry Into The Iraq War found evidence that both the US and the UK were guilty of the War Crime of Pillaging in Iraq, exactly because they forced the Iraqi Government which they themselves put in power to hire US and UK firms and to give US and UK firms oil exploration contracts.
Obviously, neither of the War Criminals (Bush and Blair) ever saw the inside of a jail cell, though I think somebody actually tried to do a citizens arrest of Tony Blair once.