The nations of Syria and Iraq today are little more than political fictions, crushed underfoot by foreign military and political intervention, and devoured by sectarian hatreds.

The 2004 siege of Fallujah sparked a demonstration demanding that the occupation troops vacate it. What followed was one of the most extensive human rights violations of recent times.

Top-secret British government papers confirm that Blair made a pact with Bush in April 2002 to act against Iraq knowing there was no evidence of weapons of mass destruction.

There is no excuse for those who have allowed Iraq's dead to be erased rather than buried. There can't be an epitaph on a grave that does not exist. Every Iraq dead must be counted.

The BBC continues to exclude anti-war voices from Iraq retrospectives because they might embarrass its reporters still in positions of authority about their work ten years ago.

Signs posted around Nama torture centre proclaimed the warning "No Blood, No Foul": if interrogators did not make a prisoner bleed, they would not face disciplinary action.

US soldier Tomas Young, who was shot in Iraq and paralyzed from the chest down, has written a last letter to George W Bush explaining why he plans to commit suicide in April.

By demonstrating the limits of US power and its inability to impose its will on peoples prepared to fight back, Iraq proved a strategic defeat for the US and its closest allies.

Few Labour MPs believed in the war, but enough of them voted in favour just to save Tony Blair's skin, simultaneously condemning the Iraqi people to years of carnage and chaos.

What is most striking with respect to the war's enormous human toll is the sheer callousness of the pro-war clique when confronted with the facts of untold death and misery.

Those of us who protested ten years ago were right to do so and the world would be a much better place if instead of being vilified we had we been listened to.

If instead of spending five trillion dollars destroying Iraq, the United States had chosen to do good with it, at home or abroad, just imagine the possibilities.

There is nothing that angers most Iraqis more than listening to Tony Blair justifying the killing of more than a million of its people by war and 13 years of sanctions.

Half of those questioned said they believed Blair deliberately set out to mislead the British public about the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction.

Amnesty International report says there has been a failure to investigate systematically the widespread human rights violations committed by the US and UK forces.

The Iraq war bankrupted the British and American political class. They no longer speak for the people they claim to represent. Few believe any longer anything they say.