Democracy and liberation were not top of the agenda following the Second World War.
It has sometimes been difficult to find accurate information about what is actually happening in Iraq.
Look which US company is at the front of the queue for Iraq contracts.
The US military may have succeeded in Iraq but now the problems are beginning to mount up.
If we can explain and understand the past, we will then be able to shape the future.
The war will not lead to the liberation of ordinary Iraqis.
This was not how Bush and Blair said it would be. It is already clear that the 'short sharp shock' that we were promised is now giving way to a far more prolonged campaign.
In the past few weeks tens of thousands of school students have made an extraordinary entrance into political activism. On the day war broke out waves of walkouts, sit-ins and protests against the attack on Iraq swept the country, completely confounding journalistic stereotypes of 'apathetic youth'.
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There may be profits to be made from securing control of Iraq oilfield at the end the war, but US companies are already cashing in as they queue to secure contracts to repair infrastructure currently being destroyed.
Having failed to steamroller the United Nations Security Council into supporting its invasion of Iraq, the US has created a tinpot 'coalition of the willing' instead.
