It was good that the US were booted out of Iraq after trashing their country, destroying their museums, having stolen money from the reconstruction, while Blackwater, the inhuman contractors remain there to bully innocent Iraqis, the US Embassy about the size of the Vatican remains to dominate and oppress the Iraqi people and misleading stats, propaganda and accounting about what is really going on there persist.

Iraq was a waste of innocent lives, infecting the country with radiation from bombs, useless corruption by the US military, and a whopping debt for the US which would have been better spent on infrastructure, education, economic equality while Wall Street robs our citizens, hospitals and affordable health care.

In short, the incursion into Iraq was a total waste. I give little credence to any peculiar article of propaganda that turns up in the Guardian or elsewhere and these erroneous stats which sound like they come out of someone's behind.