World Insights 20 years on Iraqis remain aggrieved over US invasion

The U.S. launched a special military operation in Iraq on March 20, 2003, without authorization from the UN. The ensuing eight years of bloody war claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and displacing millions of Iraqis. BEIJING, April 5 (Xinhua) — Twenty years on, Iraqis remain aggrieved over the U.S. invasion of their home country, which has left hundreds of thousands of people dead and almost 10 million displaced. They still remember the scene in which former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell held a test tube filled with white powder, claiming it to be the evidence of Iraq’s possession…